{"id":807575,"date":"2026-07-17T09:43:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807575\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:43:35","slug":"cole-pearn-wonders-when-nascar-will-admit-they-fumble-f-ed-design-of-next-gen-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807575\/","title":{"rendered":"Cole Pearn Wonders When NASCAR Will Admit They “Fumble F—ed” Design Of Next Gen Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR sparked a lot of optimism with a Wednesday announcement of a new superspeedway package for the Next Gen car<\/a>, which will be debuted in the NASCAR Cup Series Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway in August. However, while there was increased optimism that the new package could provide more passing at superspeedways, the announcement also opened the sanctioning body up to further scrutiny about the current generation of NASCAR Cup Series car.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Cole Pearn, who served as the crew chief for Martin Truex, Jr. during his NASCAR Cup Series championship season in 2017, took to X to ask a question regarding the sanctioning body and the Next Gen car<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Never one to be shy with words, in a quote post of NASCAR\u2019s superspeedway package announcement, Pearn asked, \u201cAt what point do these donkeys admit that they completely fumble fucked the design of this car.\u201d<\/p>\n

At what point do these donkeys admit that they completely fumble fucked the design of this car. https:\/\/t.co\/6aUYRLR9Pa<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Cole Pearn (@colepearn) July 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

In one fell swoop, Pearn hit the sanctioning body with an elbow drop from the top rope.<\/p>\n

The responses to Pearn\u2019s pointed post on X didn\u2019t go any softer on the sanctioning body, which has come under heavy criticism over the design of the Next Gen car since its debut in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last time a mistake was admitted was when the snack bar at the Daytona Beach Course gave a customer a hot dog instead of a hamburger,\u201d Jay Coker replied<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Steve Carnes, a longtime partner of Jeremy Clements Racing, said<\/a>, \u201cThis is all on \u201cIMSA Jim\u201d, referring to Jim France.<\/p>\n

A user with the X handle @dirtE_11b responded to Pearn,<\/a> saying, \u201cwhen the next generation car comes out. theyll admit it after the fact. until then, theyll continue to die on the hill\u201d<\/p>\n

While NASCAR can chalk up the post from Pearn and negative-leaning responses as a very vocal minority of the NASCAR fanbase, having a voice like Pearn\u2019s weighing in on this topic in this way shows that, despite NASCAR\u2019s best attempts to soften people\u2019s stance on the Next Gen car, which is essentially a kit-car, there is still a portion of those within the industry, currently and formerly, as well as the fanbase, who are not a fan of the Next Gen car.<\/p>\n

And regardless of how next month\u2019s Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway plays out, that\u2019ll still likely be the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR sparked a lot of optimism with a Wednesday announcement of a new superspeedway package for the Next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[43409,49,48,283634,2884,634,8354,102254,82],"class_list":["post-807575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-43409","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cole-pearn","tag-daytona-international-speedway","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-next-gen","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807575","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=807575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}