Dale Earnhardt Jr Exposes the “Sucky Part” of Crunch NASCAR Meeting After Alex Bowman & Kurt Busch’s Concussion

Dale Earnhardt Jr has always been vocal about his concerns regarding NASCAR’s Gen7 cars. Moreover, the former NASCAR driver had also suggested the changes that the governing body could incorporate to make the cars safe for the drivers. And now, he put forth a serious question in front of the NASCAR president.

In the recent episode of Dale Jr Download, Dale Earnhardt Jr shared that the NASCAR drivers went into a meeting with the governing body before the race this weekend. Moreover, he revealed that NASCAR gave them a detailed slide show of the things that they are learning about the car and the changes they would be implemented in 2023.

Earnhardt discussed how NASCAR is looking to get the car to a level where it absorbs a lot more energy, specifically in its rear side. He also shared that the governing body is focusing on the front of the car and is applying its findings to all other areas.

However, even after this, one issue concerned Earnhardt Jr. He shared; “One of the questions I asked Steve Phelps on the pit box before the race was, ‘We can ask all the simple questions of what are we doing to get the car better. But you got a guy or you got two guys actually sitting on the sidelines, how do you get them comfortable to get them back in this car?”

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He further shared that he has suffered concussions and knows how difficult it is to get back in a car after that. Furthermore, he questioned NASCAR about how are they planning on instilling more confidence among the drivers.

He said; “So if you are Alex Bowman, how does the sport get you more confident to get back in this car? ‘Ok man! They fixed it, I feel better about it.”

Dale Earnhardt Jr on the issues with NASCAR’s recent meeting

Dale Earnhardt jr explained that a lot of drivers were frustrated at the governing body after the meeting. He said; “I know that meeting maybe probably didn’t go quite as smooth(ly) as it should have or could have. Corey LaJoie came out and said ‘Man! This is so frustrating. NASCAR’s trying to give us all this information and all we are doing is kind of arguing about the past. And why did you let this happen? How did we get to this point?”

Furthermore, he said that although it was a fair argument, NASCAR was more concerned about the layout for the future. Moreover, the governing body had to end the meeting at a specific time and hence it could not take up as many questions and queries from the drivers.

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He said; “The meeting had to end at a specific time and NASCAR was nowhere through with their presentation. That was the sucky part. Just happens every single time. You get all the drivers in the room together, it’s noisy, and everybody has got different opinions.”