🛑 Dale Earnhardt Jr. suggests perfect international track to NASCAR. Fans call it make NASCAR lose value…
All of the talk after the Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray has been about where NASCAR will take the race next, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. has a suggestion. If the future of the Clash is international, there is one track that Dale Jr. wants to see.
The talk about Brazil getting a date on the schedule has only been building. If not Brazil, potentially another international destination. This season, NASCAR will race in Mexico City for a Cup and Xfinity Series points race.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. talked about his international idea on the Dale Jr. Download. He had an interesting pick.
“There’s this uh, they absolutely want to race in front of new audiences,” Earnhardt said. “NASCAR would love to race in Europe or, you see Brazil in the conversation on social media. And if that is something that we are absolutely going to see in the future. Like, I don’t know if I love – I don’t car. I don’t care if my Cup racing goes overseas. I’m not for it or against it. It doesn’t excite me, you know, but I’ll watch it. But I’m not going to be sad if it doesn’t happen. Does that make sense?
“But if they take the Clash overseas, I think that one track that they absolutely should look at is Brands Hatch. The Indy course at Brands Hatch, it’s like a short-track road course. I don’t think, they’re wanting to take the Clash maybe overseas or to some different countries. I think you have to keep it on that short-circuit format. You can’t go to these long mile-and-a-half or two-and-a-half-mile or three-mile road courses and have the Clash. That is not going to be fun. … So, they may have some tracks that exist, some small ovals that exist in some of these countries that they can try to run at.
“But I think Brands Hatch, which it is a road course … It’s like a, I don’t know the distance but it’s like a mile. It’s very, it’s a couple of corners. We’ve ran it online, we’ve run it on our sim race forever.”
Brands Hatch is a historic venue in England. That track has been home to many fantastic races. Over the years, iRacers like Dale Earnhardt Jr. have race NASCAR cars virtually on the track.
NASCAR is putting its national series trio on a new configuration at COTA that is shorter. Why not go to a “short track road course” like Dale Jr. suggests in Brands Hatch?
