{"id":214545,"date":"2025-09-10T04:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/214545\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T04:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:01:11","slug":"dale-jr-in-a-truck-racing-into-his-late-50s-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/214545\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Jr. in a Truck? Racing into his late 50s? Maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/a> was just spit balling, and it\u2019s far from a formal announcement, but he does have a degree of FOMO (fear of missing out) on not running the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Bristol this weekend.<\/p>\n

While answering questions on the latest episode of the Dale Jr. Download podcast, Earnhardt said he could seem himself continuing to make one-off appearances in the lower levels of NASCAR for many years to come.<\/p>\n

\u201cI should run one or two more,\u201d said Earnhardt, who has not made a start this season after making at least one appearance in the Xfinity Series every year since his retirement from Cup after the 2017 season. \u201cBut, I don’t know if and when I’ll do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cNorth Wilkesboro, I don\u2019t really want to run Wilkesboro with the new pavement but there\u2019s a chance by the time I\u2019m 55-to-58 years old that maybe that pavement is kind of worn out a little bit and I can just hop out there and do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

58?! He\u2019s 49 currently.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t have any problem with getting in my Xfinity car in eight years and running a one-off,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat the hell? Why the hell not? I\u2019d run Bristol again. I’d run Wilkesboro once the pavement wears out.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the Nashville (Fairgrounds) thing happens, I\u2019d probably contemplate going and running that one as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earnhardt intends to race his Late Model Stock for at least another decade and says he still wants to make a Craftsman Truck Series start someday.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it has to be fun for me and I just can\u2019t figure out where to run one that would be fun for me right,\u201d Earnhardt said. \u201cI have I have certain things that I think are fun. I like Martinsville but I don\u2019t like the racing there. It\u2019s a little short in that you don\u2019t even get into the bad side of the tire, to where the tire’s messing around.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went to run an Xfinity race at Martinsville and its miserable because of the tire \u2026 the stages are too short. You don\u2019t get to take advantage of being better at driving a race car because of the tire, once your tire starts to fail, and you lose the rear drive and different things \u2026 the brakes get mad and the tires blow up the air pressure.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike, if you’re smart, you can do good things early in the run that’ll make your car really great at lap 80 and 100, which is so much fun but they never get to that point. They never do. The stage is over and there ain\u2019t enough power too in the Xfinity cars at Martinsville.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou stand in the gas and it’s like stepping in a bucket of water.\u201d<\/p>\n

But again, don\u2019t hold him too it, because he\u2019s just \u2018shooting the crap\u2019 on his podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe I’ll run that Truck race at 58 years old at Wilkesboro. Don\u2019t hold me to it, people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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