Kyle Petty, son of seven-time Cup Series champion Richard Petty, has emerged as a rare supporter of the Next Gen car. This is because several prominent figures in NASCAR, including Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kevin Harvick, and Denny Hamlin, have voiced strong criticism of the Next Gen car’s performance and design. Among their many complaints, one of them is that modern cars are 600 pounds heavier, which is significantly heavier than their predecessors. Due to this, Kyle Petty’s recent praise of this problematic car in response to Dale Jr. hasn’t sat well with the Tricon Garage crew chief, Cole Pearn, who gave a blunt response to Petty Jr. on the same.

Introduced in 2022, the Next Gen car was designed to modernize NASCAR with improved aerodynamics and new technology. This initiative to bring in c

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