Friday’s Food City 300 for the Xfinity Series at Bristol Motor Speedway was an awesome event, and the biggest reason why might’ve been because Dale Earnhardt Jr. got behind the wheel again.
The interest Earnhardt Jr. brings to the sport when he’s in the car is unrivaled, and it’s something that NASCAR insiders Jeff Gluck and Jordan Bianchi reacted to on the latest episode of The Teardown , where the latter even compared him to Michael Jordan at the end of his Chicago Bulls tenure.
“This is nowhere near a new opinion, and I don’t know how you fix this, it’s obvious, it’s been this way for a long time. NASCAR, the star power that Dale Earnhardt Jr. brings to NASCAR when he races, is unrivaled, and it’s so apparent,” Bianchi stated . “From the driver introductions, to just the whole — like, he makes passes on the racetrack and people are cheering. What other driver does that happen for? There’s just this aura, this presence. It’s this star power, that’s the best way to to explain it, and it’s something that NASCAR is badly lacking, in that sense…