{"id":53430,"date":"2025-07-10T06:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/53430\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T06:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:38:12","slug":"dale-earnhardt-jr-reacts-to-2026-nascar-schedule-rumors-potentially-breaks-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/53430\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. reacts to 2026 NASCAR schedule rumors, potentially breaks news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dale Earnhardt Jr<\/strong>. took a closer look at what the 2026 NASCAR schedule could look like. On Dale Jr. Download<\/a>, Earnhardt first talked about NASCAR potentially returning to Chicago since its contract is up with the city. <\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t even imagine how much of a spiderweb the agreement or any future agreement or how to even get down that path is for NASCAR in the city and all that s**t,\u201d Dale Earnhardt Jr. said. \u201cYou don\u2019t know who\u2019s telling the truth about whether they really want to do this again or not. If they said tomorrow, \u2018Yeah, there\u2019s a new two-year deal or three-year deal, I wouldn\u2019t be mad about it. The race itself is entertaining as s**t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earnhardt went on to talk about what he likes about the Chicago Street race. He also revealed how NASCAR could add it to the 2026 schedule as it looks to have a road course race in San Diego. <\/p>\n

Dale Earnhardt Jr. shares more rumors on 2026 NASCAR schedule<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if they\u2019ll go back. I hear that San Diego is going to take its place,\u201d Earnahrdt stated. \u201cThere will be a street course in San Diego of some type. That is what will take Chicago\u2019s place. It doesn\u2019t mean that Chicago can\u2019t still exist. Maybe Mexico City goes away, and Chicago shifts to a different part of the schedule, I don\u2019t know. I think there\u2019s a potential where you could see us racing at Chicago and San Diego, for sure. There\u2019s a world where that exists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earnhardt then shared something about what NASCAR won\u2019t do in 2026 and which international city could host a race down the road. \u201cI don\u2019t think that they\u2019re adding another road course,\u201d he said. \u201cWhatever the number is today, that will be the number next year, but I don\u2019t know which race tracks it\u2019s going to be. I\u2019m feeling like the San Diego deal is done. People will say it\u2019s not done, but I feel like it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then it\u2019s like 50\/50 between going back to Chicago or going back to Mexico City. Then you always have the hope that we get to Montreal again, and I think it\u2019s NASCAR\u2019s intention to get there. That might not happen next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earnhardt\u2019s comments came as NASCAR announced news about the 2026 schedule. It was revealed on Wednesday that the Clash is set to return to Bowman Gray Stadium<\/a> on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. took a closer look at what the 2026 NASCAR schedule could look like. On Dale…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[4727,1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-53430","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-nascar","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114827565768808865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53430","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=53430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}