NASCAR Spotter Echoes the Sentiments of Dale Earnhardt Jr Against the Scheduling Problem That Once Again Came to the Surface at Dover

When NASCAR scheduled and went ahead with the race on the Easter Weekend, it attracted a lot of criticism. Fans, drivers, spotters, crew chiefs, almost everyone ripped into NASCAR for scheduling a race on Easter. One of those vocal critics was Dale Earnhardt Jr.

The NASCAR Hall Of Famer had called out NASCAR for having a race on Easter. But the bigger takeaway from his comments was the scheduling problem the sport has.

And while Dale Jr is yet to share his thoughts on the rescheduling of the Dover Cup race because of the rain, Brett Griffin, the spotter shared his thoughts on the same in the recent episode of the show under Earnhardt Jr’s media umbrella, Door Bumper Clear.

“I thought the biggest loser of the weekend was whomever missed the opportunity to move the race up one hour on Sunday. Because we had a massive crowd show up at this race. We saw the rain forecast change. We could’ve easily moved this up to a 2:00 pm start which would’ve gave us an opportunity to put more racing in front of our fans that are actually live,” Griffin said.

“When we start putting our fans that are at the racetrack first, it’s gonna help our sport, it’s gonna help the environment we’re in, it’s gonna help the energy.”

Griffin continued, “I was disappointed that as a sport, whomever had that authority and I don’t know who it is. We had Dale Jr here two weeks ago, he told us, ‘TV is king’. Maybe TV was king and said, ‘We’re not moving it up to 2’o’clock.”

What did Dale Earnhardt Jr say about the NASCAR schedule?

Ahead of the Bristol dirt race that was scheduled on the same weekend as Easter, Dale Earnhardt Jr not only opened up but didn’t hold back on who was to be blamed for the same.

“I think TV runs the show, man. TV Networks decide when we’re racing, what time of day we’re racing. They pay NASCAR enough money that they have that authority,” Dale Jr. added.

Dale Earnhardt Jr said NASCAR has to be “malleable” to move, shift, and change in whichever direction the networks want the sport to go. It was in his humble opinion that he added that they themselves are responsible for the situation they’re in.

“How’s that,” you ask?

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“They accepted that giant check.”

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