Dale Earnhardt Jr. needs to see large modifications with the present NASCAR playoff. On Dale Jr. Obtain, Earnhardt revealed what he would change in regards to the playoffs, and it begins with the Daytona 500.
“What if we removed the common season, and beginning in Daytona with the Daytona 500, the playoffs started?” Dale Earnhardt Jr. requested. “The playoffs are the entire season ending with a last one-round championship spherical, or a 3 or four-race championship spherical.
“As an alternative of this eight, 4 rounds and eradicate a number of guys and all that, make the common season really feel just like the playoffs. The issue with what now we have proper now’s that when the season begins, there’s not numerous urgency. Within the outdated system, a foul race was damning in your championship hopes. So, Week 2, Week 4, a foul run, a damaged engine or no matter, you felt that s**t.”
Dale Earnhardt Jr. says eliminating the NASCAR playoff is ‘not off the desk’
Earnhardt added, “We don’t really feel that anymore. Guys get out, they don’t give a f**okay. They’re going to come back again subsequent week with an opportunity to make the playoffs. Each week is one other probability to punch your ticket and go into the playoffs, no matter what sort of season you had. What now we have misplaced as a sport is the agony of defeat. … The peaks and the valleys have type of been neutralized. We don’t have these heartbreakers, and the highs aren’t as excessive anymore.”
Dale Earnhardt Jr. additionally talked about how “lots of people need to return to the unique format,” the place there wasn’t a playoff system. “It’s not off the desk fully,” he stated. “It has a really tiny % probability of truly taking place. Close to zero. However it’s within the dialog, and I like that, it’s a wholesome debate of claiming, ‘Look, we’re most likely by no means going to return to this authentic, however let’s focus on the deserves, the positives of it and why did we go away from it.’”
Through the offseason, there was a debate about NASCAR altering the playoff format after Joey Logano received the Cup Collection title for the third time in his profession. Logano completed ninth and acquired by the playoffs attributable to profitable three races (together with the Championship 4) and a disqualification of Alex Bowman that promoted him to the Spherical of 8.
