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Dale Jr. and Kyle Petty go back-and-forth on state of NASCAR<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

There is a lot of respect between Kyle Petty and Dale Earnhardt Jr. but they ultimately are not going to see eye-to-eye on the current state of NASCAR Cup Series racing right now.<\/p>\n

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It started last week after a frustrating to watch race at Iowa Speedway when Earnhardt said the car doesn\u2019t deliver the way it should<\/a> on a de facto short track like the one outside of Des Moines.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to say that I don\u2019t love the Next Gen car, but it\u2019s here. I don\u2019t love the NextGen car\u2026. It\u2019s an IMSA car. It\u2019s a sports car. It\u2019s got a diffuser. It\u2019s got low-profile tires, it\u2019s got big rims and big brakes. It\u2019s a sports car. It\u2019s not a NASCAR stock car, but it\u2019s here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kyle Petty, a longtime NASCAR Cup Series racer turned TV analyst and son of seven-time champion Richard Petty, challenged Earnhardt on his takeaway.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had one of our prominent members of the NASCAR community, Dale Jr., criticize the Next Gen car the other day. I don\u2019t think that criticism is deserved in a lot of ways,\u201d Petty said. \u201cWe have not raced stock cars since about 1958. We don\u2019t race stock cars, we race NASCARs. This is the NASCAR car that we have today. People complained in the 70s when they went to tubular chassis. They complained when we went to radial tires. They\u2019ve complained all along as the progression of the cars.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe were still racing cars with carburetors when you couldn\u2019t go to your local auto parts store and buy a carburetor. It was an antiquated car that we were racing and people seemed to want to have that antiquated car. This car jumped leap years ahead. We have to adjust to it. This is the racing we have. We have to embrace it, enjoy it, we\u2019re seeing some spectacular stuff on the racetrack and I think it\u2019s only going to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n

That isn\u2019t exactly the popular opinion right now with 2014 Cup Series champion Kevin Harvick, now a FOX Sports analyst, saying bluntly that \u2018the car sucks<\/a>\u2019 and Earnhardt offered a response this week on his Dale Jr Download podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really, really respect Kyle, I think the world of him, and I appreciate his opinion,\u201d Earnhardt said. \u201cBut I would just disagree that the car doesn\u2019t produce what I expect.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAgain, going back 75 years, I know Kyle\u2019s been around a long time, the car doesn\u2019t produce the kind of racing that I know we are capable of at road courses and short tracks,\u201d Earnhardt said. \u201cThe car does not produce the type of racing that I think should be our standard, and I know what we\u2019re capable of at road courses and short tracks; and I would not stop at trying to achieve fucking amazing great racing at those style tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dale Jr. and Kyle Petty go back-and-forth on state of NASCAR originally appeared on The Sporting News There…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[4727,84227,1406,62,76970,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-144769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-dale-earnhardt-jr","9":"tag-kyle-petty","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-car","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115026525254045977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}