Enough criticism about the Gen-7 car, which NASCAR is currently using in the Cup Series, and this time it can stop at any disadvantage. Those criticisms are often loudest after an O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race goes down to the wire, as it did in Vegas when Corey Day pulled off a remarkable victory.
When it comes to the prospect of criticism, former host and former FOX radio personality Kenny Wallace decided to go ahead and get his opinions on the thoughts that will be heard on this week’s podcast.
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“When the race is over. Dale Jr., Rodney Childers, everybody starts going, “This is the greatest coach O’Reilly has ever seen. It puts on a hell of a show.” What they’re learning is hoping NASCAR listens to them,” Caesar said. “I’m gonna make a comedy out of it. This is Saturday Night Live. Dale Jr., Rodney Childers, Jeff Gluck: “Hey NASCAR, this O’Riley is a fake coach. The car is great. We need to sh-can the Next Gen car, get rid of the billion dollar race cars, and rebuild this old car”. Lose your cool. NASCAR isn’t going to sh-can their next gen car and go back to the old car”.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. owns JR Motorsports and has been one of the most vocal voices against his neighbor’s car. Rodney Childers is the crew chief for the No.1 JRM Chevrolet, which drove Carson Kvapil to second in Vegas. Jeff Gluck is a pro-athletic sports journalist and has two podcasts, Teardown and Gluckcast, both of which are produced by Dale Jr’s Dirty Mo Media.
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Wallace has always offered a different perspective to what is being said at any point in NASCAR, and his approach is often admired. But he takes that tone when he digs into the opinions of the three he mentioned, who have often been voices in favor of the Gen-6 car, which is now used in NOAPS.
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Their criticism of the Gen-7 car is often along the lines of a lack of driver input or the team’s ability to work on the car and adapt it to their requirements. There is also the thought that the Gen-7 car should move further away from the idea of what a stock car should be.
However, Wallace pointed out the reasons NASCAR believes it won’t take a backward step in cars. It is difficult, however, to argue the dialectic a priori here and there.
“It’s a great car (Gen-6),” Wallace said. “We’re not arguing about it. What I’m thinking is called useless energy.”
Caesar was demonstrating the twist-sister concept by applying its chassis to create lateral force. This meant that the Gen-6 car burned a lot of fuel to create the best pulling performance, which in itself shows the car fighting against its foundation. Burning great energy so that you get the best traction before you can get to the point where that traction needs to be used to make the Gen-6 car gas guzzler clear on the track in an age where the world is changing to sustainable practices.
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The Gen-7 car, on the other hand, is designed to stick to the ground and is aerodynamically efficient as it limits fuel consumption. But Waleys also said that it’s not just the cars that feel it like the NOAPS races, they’re better than the Cup races; There is also a driver.
“It was a great night because of one loss: Corey Day,” Wallace said. “Corey Day made O’Reilly’s car look good. Yes, it’s a great car. I agree with you. Corey Day made the car look good. Corey Day, Corey Heim, as they say in baseball, the future. Remember what I say, this sign: in five years it will be Corey and Corey show.”
Heim is on his way to the Cup Series as the 23XI Racing full-time No.35 Toyota driver from 2027. Heim ran a limited schedule in the No. 67 23XI Toyota won both at San Diego and the crown jewel race at the Brickyard.
It’s a day in the HMS pipeline to finally make it to the Cup Series. Having switched from dirt to tarmac as recently as 2024, HMS believes he has more to sharpen his skills before reaching a full-time series in the top order. And Wallace was full of praise for Dies and also remembered how he made it to HMS in the first place.
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“Kvapil won that race, and that Corey Day, if I put the book down and looked at the race, I could have sworn that Kyle Larson was in that car,” Wallace said. “And it was Kyle Larson who told Rick Hendrick, ‘I gotta pay Corey Day. He’s next to me.’ And now it finally comes to fruition.
“This man, this Corey Day, was barely running on the asphalt. No, he was running, leading Kvapil, he passed, and he didn’t even run the middle. No, he said, “I’m not going to run the middle.” Corey Day goes by hitting the wall and wins the race. So remember what I told you, it’s not the car that wears the race like you all think. It was Corey Day that was worn in the race.
Finally, Caesar returned to the point that it was the day he made the kind of excitement by running so hard that he actually crashed into the wall while trying to clear Kvapil. This happened on the last lap, and Day zoomed his car across the track with enough speed to take the finish line for the win and pull himself within 41 points of championship leader Sheldon Symbol with five races to go.
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