{"id":68357,"date":"2024-08-30T19:35:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T00:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/?p=68357"},"modified":"2024-08-30T19:35:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T00:35:06","slug":"dale-earnhardt-jr-questions-nascar-decision-to-move-daytona-from-being-final-race-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/dale-earnhardt-jr-questions-nascar-decision-to-move-daytona-from-being-final-race-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. questions NASCAR decision to move Daytona from being final race of season"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR<\/a><\/strong> officially unveiled<\/a> the 2025 Cup Series schedule Thursday and among the many changes, Daytona will play host to the regular season finale. <\/p>\n

Daytona hosted the regular season finale in 2022 and \u201923, but this season, it\u2019s Darlington that gets the nod. \u201cThe Lady in Black\u201d hosts the Southern 500 this Sunday. You can bet that Dale Earnhardt Jr. is fired up about the switch back, seeing that he didn\u2019t understand why Daytona moved to the penultimate regular season race in 2024. <\/p>\n

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\u201cIsn\u2019t it hard to remember it\u2019s not the cutoff race or not the last race of the regular season?\u201d Earnhardt said on \u2018The Dale Jr. Download<\/a>\u2018 following this past Saturday\u2019s Coke Zero Sugar 400. \u201cDamn you, NASCAR. I\u2019m just giving them a hard time. The schedule got jumbled up and they didn\u2019t wanna move the Darlington date off of Labor Day, right. \u2026 It still did have the same potential to be a spoiler race. Did it change at all moving it away one week? Not so much, because we still got the underdog winner that they\u2019re trying to give that race that chance to be. And it was that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dale Earnhardt Jr. not optimistic about bubble drivers\u2019 chances of winning at Darlington<\/h2>\n

As Earnhardt mentioned, Daytona did yield a first-time winner this season in Harrison Burton. 34th in the points standings heading into the race, Burton scored the upset victory to become playoff bound. As for those cutline drivers such as Bubba Wallace and Ross Chastain, they both got into trouble at Daytona and now are in near must-win situations going to Darlington.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not where you want to be, Earnhardt explained, calling Darlington the \u201cEverest\u201d of NASCAR.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing that it was missing was that if a guy did crash, you were like, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s it.\u2019 Now, you still have Darlington. Now, Darlington is the Everest of NASCAR. Going to Darlington for a must-win [is] impossible whereas Daytona you\u2019re like, \u2018I got a shot.\u2019 Who doesn\u2019t have a shot? Anybody that has to go to Darlington in a must-win situation certainly wishes that Daytona was the cutoff race.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s funny. All the drivers when they moved Daytona to the last race of the regular season [went], \u2018Oh my goodness, what a terrible idea having that race. Oh, man.\u2019 And now, they wish they were going back to Daytona. A lot of them because they damn sure ain\u2019t got a shot at Darlington.\u201d <\/p>\n

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