“NASCAR Is Not Important to Them” – Dale Earnhardt Jr Joins the Unofficial NASCAR Fan Club of Broadcasting Criticism

NASCAR fans complaining about the lack of good enough broadcasting, be it the way a live race is covered to how things are handled once the checkered flag drops, isn’t anything new. However, what’s new, though, is Dale Earnhardt Jr rallying behind the bandwagon of this particular criticism of the sport.

In the recent episode of the Door Bumper Clear podcast, Dale Jr. put his thoughts on the table about the way race broadcasting is done once the race is over, how “everyone is scrambling” to get off the air once the race ends.

For some context, Earnhardt Jr is speaking against the lack of good interviews and the lack of post-race interviews on TV in general.

“The reason why we do the interview on the front straightway is because TV is in a hurry to get off the air,” Dale Jr. said. “The more races that we push on big networks instead of NBC Sports Network or FOX Sports 1, when it’s on the big network like FOX or NBC, they are in a massive hurry to get off the air and get the next programming back on.”

“NASCAR is not important to them. And so they’re screaming, going, ‘When is this coming off the air?”

Dale Earnhardt Jr on what needs to be done

The JR Motorsports owner shared his thoughts on what NASCAR and broadcasters should do to fix this problem, something that Dale Earnhardt Jr said, “drives me nuts.”

 “I think we gotta find a way to at least give ourselves that 15 minutes-half hour to do this the proper way, to get all the right guys interviewed,” he said.

He added that whenever he gets off the air and looks at his phone; he notices the sheer number of people that complain about the lack of interviews for drivers other than the winner.

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“I’m so frustrated for the fan at home that that’s what he’s thinking about right now,” Dale Jr. added.