Enough Is Enough, Something Needs To Be Done About NASCAR's Short Track Package | Dale Jr. Download 

Dale should be made president of NASCAR, effective immediately. He’s done more for the sport from that podcast chair than anyone else in NASCAR in the last 20 years.

Give them 800 hp, narrower tires, and pull the aero off for short tracks, and make them DRIVE.

Dale has a natural ability to just climb into the minds of most NASCAR fans and speaks it. So thankful for him and I hope he keeps it up. 🎉

They don't need to intentionally kill short track racing, they will do it through incompetence. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

I appreciate Dale Jr.’s passion and dedication to the sport. ❤️🏁❤️

If nothing drastic is tried at wilkesboro for the all star, its going to be a breaking point, we all know that race is going to be awful as is.

Dale you are a MASTER AT SAVING NASCAR. YOU SAVED NORTH WILKESBORO AND YOU CAN'T LET RICHMOND LOSE A DATE. WE NEED THESE SHORT TRACKS BECAUSE A LOT OF US LOVE THE SHORT TRACKS !! BACK BEFORE THIS NEXT GEN CAR SHORT TRACKS WERE SO EXCITING AND FUN TO WATCH!!!

Check dirt sprint car and super late model racing, super high level of competition now a days and no issues with horsepower 😂

Empty stands tell you all you need to know .

Bring back the old option...you can have more hp OR you can have less weight. Whatever the ratio, let teams decide and see how it plays out. That's racing!

They need to get rid of stage racing

I fell asleep after 150 laps, this absolutely sucks! I have suggestions and NASCAR is not listening! This needs to be fixed now, I havent been to a race in several years because of this.

They sure don't give any shots on TV coverage of the EMPTY STANDS

900HP with a 9000RPM limit and a tire that's completely gone at the end of a fuel run. There's your fix !!

North Wilkesboro, Bristol and Richmond are some of my favorite tracks💞🤗💞🏁🏆🏁

Dale Earnhardt and retired drivers (which everyone’s want the job) should become the new board members for NASCAR. This is what happens when you have suits overseeing sport decisions. Everything is about the money, sponsor approval, regulation, and rules. It’s disgusting We need people who know what they’re actually talking about with this sport, it’s sad that it seems like the new fans of this sport know more about what it’s own drivers want the the sanctioning body does. More Horsepower (750+) is a good start, let these cars actually fucking rip and show why these are the best drivers in the world. I agree with Dale and have had this sentiment for a very long time even going into the Gen6 era, enough is enough NASCAR. Let the teams and drivers do what they want. Creativity and passion is what drove those “back marker” teams to be competitive.

It's very peculiar that when NASCAR introduced the "Grand American" series, which consisted of the Mustangs, Camaros, Mercury Cougars, and AMC Javelins; that those _Pony Cars_ were being the savior for the short tracks in the South. Now, over a half-century later with Mustangs and Camaros racing on short tracks, those retro-bodied styled cars are bones of contention for the short tracks in the South.

They’ve over-engineered the cars and the races in the name of parity. What good does 25 different race winners do if each one of those races are boring?

The playoffs were created to create drama and mimic other professional sports. Stage racing was initiated to create drama pure and simple like a phony reality show. Parity was initiated like in other sports and is boring boring boring! NASCAR created a superior race car for road racing and tried to apply it to ALL racing, with dismal results. NASCAR became politically correct and economically driven to a fault, losing focus on the pure competition of auto racing. Years ago brand focus was swapped for superstar branding. The cars are cookie cutter and competition is contrived by rules, aero adjustments, tire development, horse power manipulation and more. What the heck happened to stock car racing? It’s gone! NASCAR is focused on TV revenue, streaming revenue and brand revenue. Stock car racing? The best years are way way behind us. I feel fortunate to have followed stock car racing since the late sixties. Now, it sure is a disappointment.

Dale Jr for nascar president. He would make the right decisions

Dale, I have the exact same #2 Wrangler poster hanging in my bar that you had behind you. I joined your Dad’s fan club and sent it to him and he signed and returned it in 98 or 99. Keep up the good work!

Like Harry Hyde told Cole Trickle: Tires is what wins races.

Short Track Package improvements: Get rid of the rear diffusers, narrow up all 4 tires, increase the sidewall on the tires, reduce transaxle gears to 4 gears. These changes would only apply to short tracks. In the past before stage racing, the race would go on until someone either spun out or blew a tire. Green flag pit stops used to carry more weight on how the races turned out. The key is to make those race tires wear out and make the cars harder to run and more reliant upon mechanical grip. This is a car design issue. The Martinsville Xfinity Series race was fun to watch. Same weekend, same track, different race cars. Maybe do a tire test on a short track running grooved wet tires instead of slicks, then drivers would have to manage the grip or risk burning the tread off of the tires.

For the all star race put the drivers in late models. Would be amazing.

Its HARD work to make short track racing completely suck

I agree with him about most of what he said, but I think lowering brake pressure, increasing horsepower, and reducing downforce and increasing drag would be the best solutions. reduce downforce by mandating a maximum spoiler angle and removing the whole undertray with the rear defuser. lower brake pressures by mandating some form of bypass or mandate a weaker brake master cylinder. just find quick inexpensive fixes like they used to.

You would think with the lack of fans, NASCAR would have learned by now. Ugh.

Nascar needs to give more power to the cats and copy as much of the Xfinity car as possible. That thing puts on a good show nearly every week

Here's the poblem with the money issue. If you keep doing what you're doing, all that money is gonna get lost long term instead of in the short with a potential to for a return. There will be no return if NASCAR just sits on its hands and doesn't give the fans what they want. So either invest some now and get a return, or lose out on any potential growth moving forward. That's the choice. As the saying goes, "you gotta spend money to make money."

I’m thinking of a solution used by F1 to slow the cars down and create less grip during the V10 era of the early 2000’s. The cars were making over 1000hp, but also had early CAD generated aero creating massive amounts of downforce. The FIA went to Michelin and Bridgestone at the time, then Pirelli, and came up with the grooved tire. This slowed the cars down drastically. The cars were sliding more, so the drivers had to slow down more. Due to the contact patch being reduced, the drivers had to brake earlier and couldn’t use all of the throttle on corner exit. F1 also had different compounds, which I think would be interesting in NASCAR. A soft, medium, and hard compound. Softs will have the most grip, but wear faster, mediums will last longer and provide decent drip, and the hands will last the longest but the least amount of grip. I think it would be cool if NASCAR and Goodyear could use a similar concept and/or the grooved tire system.

Wasn’t there a time when there were basically four types of cars - super speedway, intermediate, short track and road course? Some teams could make changes and use short track as a road course car. Now there’s none of that other than an aero package. It takes more than aero adjustments to do this. NASCAR has gone down it’s own path of self destruction through charters, caring about the feeling of the teams and ignoring the fans. Rewind the clock and reset a once great sport.

What they need to do is get rid on this car and bring back the car before the next Gen. it’s not the tracks fault it’s NASCAR messing things up

Indy cars with stock car body’s don’t work on any track! It’s time to go back to about 1988

The car seems to be too stout for 75% of the tracks. It's like a fast moving tank.

I think the cost of everything is ruining everything. Politics on how we can corrupt more money.

Dale Jr is about to save NASCAR racing and NASCAR fan engagement single handily with this podcast. Serious momentum with this thing.

I remember when Bristol had a waiting list for people to get tickets. We had four great seats we were never going to give up. Your dad, I know had a big influence on NASCAR decisions. And it started going downhill drastically after his passing. I think I could fix NASCAR and make people love it again. Hell, I'm the one that came up with the stage points years ago on the NASCAR Fan Council. I only meant for it to be used on the super speedways though. To much technology on the cars now and not enough wrenching. Get the computer out of the damn car. Just take it out, throw it away. Get the analog gages back and make the drivers butt feel what the car is doing, not something on a screen. I'm done for now, LOL.

As a fellow NASCAR fan who has attended Dover since 2011 I prefer the October race better than the Spring race. Every Spring race is rained out that’s also a reason why attendance has tanked the past few years. I think if Dover brought back their playoff race it would be more aggressive, better attendance and weather. Maybe even add a night race at Dover Moter Speedway It also sucks hearing your own track having a date taken away from something you love.

The oldest track getting hated for hendrix sports owning the program, yes I understand on short tracks. These few weeks I been watching a lot of short tracks sadly going to miss Texas speedway this Sunday. How wins a grandfather clock. That is awesome

It's safe to say Goodyear was mortified by what they saw at Bristol. There's extreme difficulty in convincing them to build a softer tire that wears out quickly. They are worried that, if it goes wrong, their Cup tires' performance will alter the perception of their road tires.

I'm English, I've been watching Nascar over 40 years, I've never been to a race, I've never even been to America, but I will tell you this! I have been to 30 plus F1 Grand Prix all over Europe, and a 1000 other races, we do road courses, its what we do in Europe its normal! You guys in the US have something beautiful and unique, you have ovals big and small,fast and slow, dirt and paved, its f.... incredible! But nothing pisses me off and bores me more than Nascar on road courses and now especially street circuits, and Charlotte roval is a total joke! NO no no no, if you gunna loose races, take away these bullshit road courses and street circuits! PS. But keep Watkins glen, its a classic!

I wish the Xfinity series were running a points race at North Wilksboro just to show how good this track could be. The Xfinity cars show the goodness that these tracks still have. It’s not the tracks it’s this whole next gen car. Wish they’d run the same Xfinity cars. That car is great everywhere

Don't worry, nascar will always make the wrong decision.

Might be time to go back to different package cars for different style tracks like back in the 90s and early 00s. We tried to make 1 car work on everything and it barely works on anything!🤦‍♂️

Tbh dale they need more horsepower!!! It will make everything like Bristol

good year does not want their tires blowing out on national TV.

My idea to wake-up the NA$CAR powers that be is when the green flag drops at short-tracks, to have the drivers all agree (closed door meeting) to drive in qualifying order, at pace-car speed, for the entire first segment. This should also be done at restrictor-plate races. When the fans get pissed-off and destroy the grandstands, maybe someone in charge will make things right.

I wish he would come to IWK hospital fund raiser race at Riverside Speedway Nova Scotia in July. Every year we attract a nascar driver to race. Great little track nicknamed Little Bristol.

Short Track Package needs a lot of work because it isn't really good racing for sure Dale, but hopefully Nascar can fix it, and taking another race away is stupid, for what an excuse to the short track in Martinsville so they will lose a race, fix the damn problems and issues an stop with the BS Nascar!!😢

OMG, letting the "Boys" do the commercial is brilliant! 👏👏👏👏

If you think the short track package is bad wait till after the Texas race this weekend. Last years race was a snooze fest 💤

I believe Dale hit it on the nail. I wish there was another tire manufacturer again. I know people will be pushed back on another tire manufacturer. Nascar is trying to control i think thats a awesome decision we all know why. Smaller teams with smaller budgets. We will continue losing fans of something doesn't change. Dale should be staying where he is at. Team owner, father,husband, and content provider.

Let's also not forget that Auto Club Speedway was destroyed, with these supposed plans to build a short track, because the previous car ran good on short tracks. This car will be the nail in the coffin in those Auto Club Short Track plans, if nothing is done.

I knew it was panic time way back when Nascar couldn't have great races at Bristol and Martinsville!! I mean sheesh!!!

2014 short track package was great. Kurt Busch passing Jimmie with a handful of laps left at the spring Martinsville race. Look what we had Sunday. Tell'em Dale Jr!

Love how jr tells it like it is

I became I NASCAR fan because of Jeff and Jimmie at Martinsville. I agree maybe the best way to fix this is working on the tire. However if that doesn't work I'm not talking about 100hp, I'm thinking like 250hp more. These cars should be making 1,000hp. They are worried about saving money, and I know they just signed a huge TV deal , however viewership is about to go off a cliff I believe. Summer is pretty much here and people have better things to do than watch crap racing.

Do away with the DAMN stages that the answer.

Bristol and especially Richmond were always some of my favorite tracks going back to the 80's. The new car, as much as I like the ability for it to race on many types of tracks, the short track program has become trash. Put horsepower in the car, change the tire, whatever it takes, something needs fixed. And if something is tried and it does not work, try something else.

I attended Martinsville this weekend for the first time in ten years, and while the race wasn’t as boring as it must have been on tv, I never would have thought I would find myself yawning at a Martinsville freight train for 400 damn laps. The saving grace as a fan in the stands was John hunter nemechek blowing a tire.

I'll remember Nascar with the same reverence that I do for the CanAm series...😢

Dale, It seems to me that NASCAR moves to slowly and over analyze things. As a fan I am tired of the answers that say “cost too much or too expensive “. Why does NASCAR test many times in cool temperatures and only 6 or 8 cars test with a full field

Understand your frustration, but giving up won't do the sport any good because you're a voice and weather you think or not have some input and am able to talk what people are thinking. Keep on doing what your doing Dale because we need people like you to complain and have input with ideas!

MORE HP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trying to sell as something good the fact of having the entire field running within less of a second...they made passing imposible. Oversized tires, another key factor. Of course the ones who fucked up, will solve this by the easy and cheaper way, removing from the calendar the tracks were racing sucks. Im from Argentina and its sad to watch the same movie that took place here a few years ago on Turismo Carretera (the series where indycar driver Canapino came from). We used to enjoy such fantastic races, and we lost it, in name of parity and "healthy" bussiness

Let's put smaller tires smaller brake package 950 hp. Let's go racing.✌️🇺🇸

The car of tomorrow killed the racing years and years ago. 80s, 90s was where it was at.

What about bringing two tire options to the short tracks? Let the teams pick and strategy will play out. Give them a soft and a hard option and it doesn’t have to be a big difference but lap times and pit windows will vary and really make things interesting.

With everyone complaining about the short track package we all have our eyes on NASCAR, maybe that's what they want

Keep the center roll cage section. Throw everything else away. Bolt the transmission to the engine, the "750 HORSE POWER" engine. Go back to the truck arm rear sold axle set up. Put the front clip off the 4th or 5th Gen car on. Get rid of the stupid 1 lug nut, go back to 5 off / 5 on "15" wheels with the old size tires. Keep the body material but make it in sections so a car could be fixed. This is what I would do to fix the sheet show going on now.

Live in a spec racing world, have spec racing problems

You had me at "Final Boss" reference!!!! Hopefully Goodyear and Nascar does something for saving short tracks....

Smaller brakes won't really change the braking zones, it'll just cause the brakes to wear out more, but once drivers adapt, it'll go back to being the same thing. Contact patch of the tire is where the grip and stopping comes from when applying the brake. Brake size matters very little. I know it doesn't seem right, like it would matter, but the difference is minimal.

The tires are only the main problem due to the low horsepower these cars run with. If the cars were unrestricted, as they should be (outside of Superspeedways), then tire degradation would be higher. The tire needs to be fixed, and the aero adjustments should just go away entirely at the short tracks, but those issues are secondary to the lack of speed. Slow speeds are the main culprit.

Loved bristol....hated richmond and Martinsville and use to love them. So glad Wilkesboro is back never should have left. Fix it now, give teams more of the profits, increase HP and MORE tire fall off and no god dam shifting

Bill France would never try to micromanage what went into the car.

Martinsville is the premiere race as far as I am concerned or it used to be. Take away all the grip and the brakes. Today all the cars can duplicate the same speeds with no advantage to a driver all day long. Put the drive back in the car

I think the simplest way to fix the short track package will be to use grooved slick tires like F1 had 20-25 years ago. Limit the available grip and lessen the tire life and the racing will be better.

8:21 Yeah but nobody knows how it happened so it's hardly an answer.

it stinks now..........we dont watch timeouts, kings x, do overs.......... rest stops............ playoffs.

They're focusing on the fan experience and not the product on the track. Asses in the stands don't pay the bills! It's the guys with the remote controls that make it happen!!!😊

The fans know it's getting worse. The grandstands at Richmond were about 70 Percent full. You could see it on TV. My friends don't care about NASCAR anymore. I think someone needs to take NASCAR in a new direction. I've been a fan since 1994. That's 30 years. Now I'm really liking Indy Car again. That's some really good racing and not just riding around. NASCAR has lost its edge and excitement. Very sad situation indeed.

I have wanted to go to martinsville since I was a kid. I made the trip this weekend and was beyond disappointed. Definitely will not make that trip again until something changes. That track is in for a hurting…. On the way out I said “well there goes one of martinsville’s dates” and about three other locals who were walking around me agreed.

Dale, I’m an old crew chief , I see the follow the leader racing. I say package smachege! Put flat air damns on the front, no diffusers, 4” minimum ground clearance, and if that is not enough put them on the wet tires, make the drivers drive!!

This was a great episode! The tire seems to be the best remedy for short track racing again just look at Bristol., the teams ang hou they handled them was dramatic and awesome. Goodyear can make the fall of happen.

SO GLAD HES OUTTA THAT STUPID BROADCAST BOOTH BS!🙌🏻🤣 Say it all Dale!👊🏻 Everyone that’s not a Jr fan learning how much of a true fan he is of good racing, not this crap.🤘🏻I say more testing and practice

You can make things as hard as you want to. NASCAR always picks the hardest way.

Wasnt there a "new and improved" rack resin applied at Bristol ? Could that very thing be what was making the tires last only 40 laps ? You know, it was So Sticky, sort of speaking, that it was rippin the rubber off the tires ? Oh, and the Last pitstop for the 24 car at Martinsville, they had a Uncontrollable Tire... jus saying,

Bristol hasnt been the same since the repave in 2003, Richmond was primo in the 90s and decent even up to the mid-2010s. Short track racing has become so boring, the take 100 laps away from the martinsville spring classic, and cant get the hp package right after all these years? Short tracks used to be beat and bang fender rubbin racing. Now the fenders dont even bend when a car hits the wall. Somethings gotta give. After 33 years of being a nascar fan, we need to see another change.

It’s the tires! All NASCAR has to do is tell Goodyear bring the freakin tires from the last Bristol race!

Smokey Yunick had something to say about the France family's competency...

What nascar needs to do is dump goodyear and get a company that ONLY makes race tires, that way they dont have to worry about their image on the street.

Don’t forget he owns the CARS Tour. Could really grow into something

Solid rear axle. Steel body. High horse power. Hard skinny tire

I really don't think they care. We're in year 3. And no change.

im not sure if they can or will fix it during this season but I know after the season is over they need to be working on this package every week of the off season until they find something that works.

Man I wish the manufacturers made cars like they use to do NASCAR could use cars like we can buy 70s through 90s were the Golden years you see Dale Sr and Bill Elliott going at it and Bill pulls in the pits and pit crew takes cutting torch and cuts part of his exhaust off and he's gone. That down and dirty grittiness is what's missing. Everything is million dollar this and millions on that, a small town country boy that can drive his f ing ass off like myself has zero chance of making it. So why even bother watching it? We can't relate to these silver spooners driving can't relate to the cars. NASCAR has left it's fans we didn't leave NASCAR

At Bristol the tires that lasted 40 laps is what made that race good. I agree that tires that actually wear out before a fuel run is a great first step, even at intermediates. When all the cars are going the same speed tire wear has to be difference maker. I do think bringing back 8-900 hp engines that rev to 9000rpm would be the best change. I have hated the way the cars sound since the start of the next gen car.

What's interesting is that in 1984 at the old Nashville fairgrounds 14k to 18k fans showed up to watch a short track NASCAR race and at that time it was considered a huge sell out crowd. I have no real number on the lead changes but if I was to guess it was less than a half dozen . Darrell Walltrip led the majority of the race followed by his teammate Neil Bonnet . Not much really happened during the race ,Tim Richmond tried running a high groove and wrecked embarrassingly along with Harry Gant. Bodine ran around in the Hendrix entry around 3rd to 6th all night and Richard Petty had a solid run up into the top five making passes with guys like Ron Burchard. And it had a outstanding finish with a lot of controversy as they flagged the wrong car the victor. short track racing 1984. The tires were tiny the cars were detuned to 600hp lack of forward bite was a huge issue and that's why we had guys trying to run the top. Again only 15k fans at a packed electric sellout crowd. Mabey 10 cars had proper sponsorship and there could have been 75 crew guys at the race who received a paycheck . And we look back at that race like it was the greatest short track race of all time . Why?? Because it was a good race . Today we see a huge decline in attendance driver and crew pay and sponsorship but it's still miles away from 1984 just as it is miles away from 2004. Can we stop complaining about things you can't change and if you really wanted them to change you would get out of that damn chair and be about it and stop talking about it .. I want to hear the truth about how illegal things were and all that neat history dale lets talk real talk about your plate cars from 2001 to 2007 . Just how illegal were they? Let's talk about that illegal black #3 in Feb of 2001 just for the sake of a show . Let's talk about how Bobby Labonte could have blown by Steve park but instead played wwf and ran rite to his door coming to the checked. Let's talk about real things . I'm sick of fake . All the way to the racing on track to the topics on this podcast 😅

Remember when teams could pick any gear ratio they wanted? I remember.