Dale Earnhardt Jr. took a shot at Erik Jones while talking about the issues at the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Martinsville. On Dale Jr. Download, Earnhardt called out Jones for hitting a driver during the Martinsville Cup race.
“People ain’t going to love what I’m about to say, but I sat there and watched the Cup race Sunday, and Erik Jones drove into Turn 3 three car lengths deep and knocked somebody’s ass out of the way. Same damn thing,” Earnhardt said. “It was just for 20th in the Cup race. …The s*** probably happens every five laps there.”
Dale Earnhardt Jr. then talked about what NASCAR should do going forward to prevent what happened at the Xfinity race this past weekend. “The way to do it going forward is to penalize people in the moment while it’s happening,” Earnhardt said. I think one of the reasons why they’re hesitant to do it is because NASCAR’s always had this sort of strange approach towards incidents. …They won’t really react unless a driver comes out and says damning admission ‘I did it.’ And then NASCAR’s like, ‘We weren’t going to do anything until you said you did it on purpose.’
Erik Jones disqualified from the NASCAR Martinsville race
“I think they need to pivot from that mentality of calling incidents just at Martinsville. Go to Martinsville and say, ‘Hey, if you go down in the corner and your right front touches the guy in the left rear and he spins, you are going to the back with him. That will stop this s***”.
It was not a good weekend for Erik Jones as NASCAR disqualified him for the Martinsville race because his No. 34 car failed to meet minimum weight requirements. Once the announcement was made, Leagacy Motor Club issued a statement.
“Legacy Motor Club will not appeal the disqualification of the No. 43 car following Sunday’s race at Martinsville Speedway, the team said. “We understand NASCAR allows a clear margin to account for the difference in pre- and post-race weight. After a thorough audit by the Club today, we have concluded that we did not give ourselves enough margin to meet the post-race requirement. Although it was not intentional, we are taking steps internally to prevent this from happening again. We therefore accept the penalty and apologize to NASCAR, our partners and our fans.”
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