{"id":660842,"date":"2026-05-10T20:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660842\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:27:19","slug":"dale-earnhardt-jr-had-perfect-response-to-angry-nascar-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660842\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. Had ‘Perfect’ Response To Angry NASCAR Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dale Earnhardt Jr. is no longer a full-time NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series driver. However, the legendary son of the all-time great remains very close to the sport.<\/p>\n

The son of Dale Sr. owns an Xfinity Series team. He also works in broadcasting, will compete in a race or two every year and has a very strong social media presence. Dale Jr. isn’t afraid to go after people online, though.<\/p>\n

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Dale Jr. was recently on the receiving end of a negative message from a NASCAR fan. Dale Jr. had the perfect response, however.<\/p>\n

The legendary NASCAR driver was discussing if Carson Hocevar could challenge Chase Elliott for the 2026 NASCAR Most Popular Driver award, following Hocevar\u2019s first Cup Series win at Talladega. Dale Jr., who won the NASCAR Most Popular Driver award 15 straight times from 2003 through 2017, is pretty qualified to talk about the subject.<\/p>\n

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Jul 19, 2025; Dover, Delaware, USA; NASCAR Xfinity Series owner Dale Earnhardt Jr. looks on from pit road during the BetRivers 200 at Dover Motor Speedway. Mandatory Credit: Matthew O’Haren-Imagn ImagesMatthew O’Haren-Imagn Images&period;<\/p>\n

Dale Jr. joked that YouTuber and racer Cleetus McFarland would have to show a lot of support for Hocevar for him to get the title.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCleatus would have to campaign on social daily to make it competitive,” he joked.<\/p>\n

One angry NASCAR fan, though, disagreed.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t know that. You\u2019re just dismissing him, and it\u2019s clear the disrespect you have based on the way you spelled Cleetus wrong on purpose. I\u2019ll reiterate that u don\u2019t know bc the numbers ain\u2019t released publicly. Unless they\u2019re released to you?? Is that what you\u2019re saying?\u201d<\/p>\n

Dale Jr. had the perfect response<\/p>\n

Dale Jr. didn’t need to say much to clap back at the fan. He had the perfect response.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI won it 15 times and have a pretty solid understanding of how it works,” he clapped back in perfect form.<\/p>\n

That’s about as good as you can do if you’re Dale Jr.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published by The Spun<\/a> on May 10, 2026, where it first appeared in the NASCAR<\/a> section. Add The Spun as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. is no longer a full-time NASCAR Cup Series driver. However, the legendary son of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,26749,14056,244333,634,244332,7576,82],"class_list":["post-660842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carson-hocevar","tag-dale-earnhardt-jr","tag-dale-sr","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-fan","tag-nascar-xfinity-series","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660842","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=660842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}