Flat tires, power steering failures, in-race fires, and a bunch of drivers with concussions. The list of controversies surrounding NASCAR’s Next Gen cars keeps on getting bigger and bigger. But what concerns Dale Earnhardt Jr more is the governing body’s attitude towards it all.

In a recent episode of Dale Jr Download, Earnhardt Jr put forth his views about the Gen 7 cars. Moreover, he questioned NASCAR for not taking up any action against the current design. He said, “Why did we have to go this far with this design? Why did this car have to be so far removed from what we were doing, to begin with?”

Furthermore, Earnhardt explained that he feels that the Gen 7 cars are more like sports cars. He said, “Why did we have to jump to the other extreme? I mean we basically got a sports car running around these ovals. A car designed for road courses now racing at mile-and-a-half oval tracks.”

He further said, “The IMSA guys run their cars on road courses. They don’t run around ovals with walls. They don’t smash into walls every time they spin out. And so that’s a little frustrating for me personally. I wish we hadn’t went so far away from where we were with the overall design of the car.”

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Furthermore, Earnhardt said that he agrees with the opinions of NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin. He said that Hamlin was right to point out that the whole thing needs to be revisited in terms of being able to absorb impacts. May they be the rear impacts, side impacts, or frontal impacts.

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Dale Earnhardt Jr revealed that he feels NASCAR didn’t fix the new design as nothing bad had really happened yet. He explained, “Hey, man! Just because Cody Ware gets out of that car after a nasty head-on vicious impact at Texas, doesn’t mean that ‘Oh well, that checks that box. We don’t need to really look in that area.”

In fact, Earnhardt feels that the governing body should revisit the entire design. And he stated,“If we find and learn and improve the rear, we need to take that understanding and everything we’ve got better and try to find other ways around the rest of the car to implement that same sort of understanding.”

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Citing NASCAR’S perception of ‘Well, you know safety is a never-ending quest’, Earnhardt explained, “If that is really your truth then what you learned at the back of this race car when you fix what is obviously wrong, you apply it around the rest of the car as well. Because I don’t like the side impacts.”