{"id":513992,"date":"2026-03-04T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513992\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:46:29","slug":"dale-earnhardt-jr-reveals-corey-day-meeting-was-had-after-cota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513992\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. reveals Corey Day meeting was had after COTA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Corey Day came under fire once again this weekend after his second consecutive NASCAR O\u2019Reilly race incident with an allied car. Connor Zilisch, the most recent victim at COTA, even demanded an apology<\/a> from the young Hendrick Motorsports driver. And while the criticism is pouring in from across the NASCAR world<\/a>, Dale Earnhardt Jr. took the opportunity to pull back the curtain on how Corey\u2019s string of mistakes is being viewed within Hendrick and JRM.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday\u2019s most recent episode of The Dale Jr. Download<\/a>, former driver and JR Motorsports owner Dale Earnhardt Jr. explained what happened in the aftermath of Corey Day\u2019s incident with Connor Zilisch at COTA.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all got together. Rick had a conversation with Corey and we\u2019re all trying to help him understand, look man, we want you here. We believe in you. We believe you\u2019re a winner. But we have to do this without being detrimental to each other. I know it looks ugly for fans who are watching it. It\u2019s hard for our teams. But it\u2019s part of the process of trying to school up these guys to become the drivers that we think they\u2019re capable of becoming.\u201d <\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that Corey Day is one of NASCAR\u2019s most highly touted prospects and is just a few weeks into his rookie O\u2019Reilly Series season. With a background in dirt racing, Day still has a lot to learn about the asphalt. <\/p>\n

At just 20 years old, Corey Day certainly has some rope to work with when it comes to getting his feet under him. But that leash is getting considerably shorter, especially when the mistakes of inexperience are hurting Hendrick partner JRM\u2019s results. The Atlanta race saw him at the center of multiple incidents, including one that claimed JRM entries Carson Kvapil and Justin Allgaier. And, of course, the incident this past weekend at COTA ruined what looked like an epic comeback for Connor Zilisch in the No. 1 JRM Chevy.<\/p>\n

Dale Earnhardt Jr. voices support for Corey Day<\/p>\n

While Corey Day\u2019s mistakes are clearly proving costly, Dale Earnhardt Jr. made it clear that there\u2019s no insidious intent behind them. He also emphasized the idea that Day should get a clean slate going forward, at least as far as his JRM drivers are concerned.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a very tough situation to be in for me. [Corey Day] has a ton of talent\u2026 He\u2019s got a lot of racecar. He didn\u2019t go through the esses and go \u2018man, I\u2019ma just clean this No. 1 car out.\u2019 But he is in control of the car, and he has to realize that\u2019s my teammate. And Rick Hendrick owns the car I\u2019m driving and Rick Hendrick owns the car that I\u2019m going to spin out. And he has to drive his car and control it so that it doesn\u2019t cause that accident, right? That\u2019s what we\u2019re asking him to do.\u201d\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026Our drivers should have no animosity towards Corey. Corey should look at this as an opportunity to start anew and start to build a rapport and a reputation that he wants to have.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corey Day came under fire once again this weekend after his second consecutive NASCAR O\u2019Reilly race incident with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-513992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}