Dale Earnhardt Jr. largely loved the All Star Race on Sunday afternoon at Dover Motor Speedway however largely as a normal race and never as a part of the lineage it represented.
To that finish, the Corridor of Famer and winner of the 2000 working of ‘The Winston’ has his personal concepts with what to do with the occasion.
“We’re doing an excessive amount of,” Earnhardt mentioned on his Dale Jr. Obtain podcast on Tuesday. “The (1987) race is famous. The (1992) One Sizzling Evening was a legendary race. All these have been easy codecs — 50 laps, 25 laps, 10.
“You might have your Open and a assist system, O’Reilly’s and Vehicles, no matter. … That’s all it must be.”
So, Earnhardt desires to run the All-Star Race on the Wednesday night time earlier than the Coca-Cola 600, giving the trade an off-weekend within the course of. He would give Dover again its factors race. His format would solely embody 20-ish vehicles, winners from 2026 and possibly the again half of 2025.
“You may may even do the final 20 winners, 20 automobile subject, that’s it,” Earnhardt mentioned.
He thinks it’s vital to have an Open for the remainder of the sphere to race their manner in, however no fan vote.
“We’ll take the winner,” Earnhardt mentioned. “Not fucking second or third — the man who gained the Open will get in. So there’s 19 locked in and the winner of The Open to go race for 1,000,000 bucks. That’s all it’s essential do on a Wednesday night time.
“You don’t want the entire rattling subject on the market. You don’t must put on everybody out and beat everybody’s shit up. You might have a few guys in The Open to go on the market and placed on an excellent race.”
Earnhardt says that is an appetizer for the Coca-Cola 600.
“However most significantly, I do not need them to do away with the All-Star Race,” Earnhardt mentioned. “And you already know why? For everybody who gained it, it is a kick within the balls man. It is like eliminating the Daytona 500. Why would you do away with the Daytona 500? You would not. It is a legendary race. In case you do away with it, all of the historical past that goes with it turns into nugatory.”
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