The NASCAR Cup Series is set to continue on Sunday, Feb. 22 when the Ambetter Health 400 takes place. After witnessing the Daytona 500, though, former star driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. believes that there's one big change NASCAR needs to make for their upcoming race.

Daytona 500 marked a momentous event in JR Motorsports’ history, with Justin Allgaier not only marking the team’s debut in the NASCAR Cup Series but also achieving their first-ever top-10 finish in “The Great American Race.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. wore an Osterlund hat all weekend at Daytona and had a good reason for wearing it. On Dale Jr. Download, Earnhardt was asked where fans could get the hat and why he wore it all Daytona 500 weekend.

Dale Earnhardt Jr was emotional after Justin Allgaier raced the JR Motorsports car into the Daytona 500 for the first time on Feb. 13. The NASCAR legend tells why.

Where else do you go and barely make the field and cry tears of joy?” The answer is Daytona, the place that means so much to the Earnhardt family.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. blinked back tears as the moment socked him at Daytona International Speedway — a track bursting with triumph and tragedy for his family — that he was, with a country star and a NASCAR champ in tow,

"Where else do you go and barely make the field and cry tears of joy? Nowhere," Earnhardt said of the fabled speedway and race.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. was happy with a ninth-place finish by Justin Allgaier in JR Motorsports' debut NASCAR Cup Series event, and he says the experience in the Daytona 500 reaffirmed his desire to be a NASCAR Cup team owner.

The final few laps and even the very end of the 2025 Daytona 500 were marred by massive crashes that wiped out several race leaders in the late stages. While most fans have laid the blame at the drivers,