{"id":198070,"date":"2025-10-02T21:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/198070\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T21:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:32:06","slug":"dale-earnhardt-jr-reacts-to-nascar-racing-product-at-kansas-takes-issue-with-next-gen-aero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/198070\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. reacts to NASCAR racing product at Kansas, takes issue with Next Gen aero"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dale Earnhardt Jr. enjoyed the on-track product in this past Sunday\u2019s NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series playoff race at Kansas Speedway. There was one thing that he didn\u2019t love, however. <\/p>\n

Earnhardt has expressed his issues with the Next Gen car aero before. He saw it again at Kansas, particularly in the corners. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat track is pretty entertaining,\u201d Earnhardt said on Tuesday\u2019s Dale Jr. Download<\/a>. \u201c\u2026 The only thing that I don\u2019t love \u2014 look, that was a good product, that was a great product on the racetrack this weekend \u2014 the one thing I do not love about the Next Gen car is how bad the air is when a car gets behind another car. We saw a couple moments in that race where they\u2019re all trying to avoid each other\u2019s wake when they go down in the corner, like you\u2019re behind a guy on the straightaway and you\u2019re thinking, \u2018Alright, is he going low or high because I\u2019m doing the opposite.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the way all of them think as they\u2019re going down the straightaway, I\u2019m gonna do the opposite of the guy in front of me. But you gotta get clean air under the center of the car, and sometimes we\u2019ll see, and we saw it in this race, they\u2019ll make the wrong choice and boy, they have to jump out of the gas because they go into the corner following a car, they have no grip and they get out of the gas and lose all of this momentum.\u201d<\/p>\n

While that might have been a problem throughout, it\u2019s something we routinely see in just about every race. Kansas, one of the more entertaining races on the schedule, still found a way to deliver. <\/p>\n

Dale Earnhardt Jr. liked what he saw on the racetrack at Kansas<\/p>\n

The ending was quite memorable, Denny Hamlin washing up the track and making contact with Bubba Wallace who brushed the wall. It allowed Chase Elliott to drive by on the bottom and take the checkered flag. <\/p>\n

Earnhardt likes to see drivers going for it on the last lap as Hamlin did. He just didn\u2019t love that it was Hamlin \u2014 23XI Racing co-owner \u2014 doing it against Wallace \u2014 23XI driver.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut otherwise, I really enjoyed everything about this race,\u201d Earnhardt said. \u201cI see that little phenomenon with the aero a time or two in each individual race and it grinds my gears. Otherwise, I was really entertained, particularly with the finish. As much as I wish Bubba would have won the race because I thought he was in a position to do it, I hate that if it was not his team owner on the inside making that move, I\u2019m OK with it because it\u2019s another competitor going for it\u2026 those are moves that we want to see from time to time in the sport. A guy send it and overdo it, cook it and make the mistake, cost them the win. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt just sucked because it was the team owner and the driver in this scenario, but otherwise if it was other drivers besides Denny and Bubba, we want to see that sometimes. We like to see our racing be flawed and imperfect and present those oh hell, guy coming off the corner, a guy slides by and wins the race and oh, it\u2019s Chase Elliott, who happens to be one of the more popular drivers in the series.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. enjoyed the on-track product in this past Sunday\u2019s NASCAR Cup Series playoff race at Kansas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-198070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}