NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Jr. insists 'we need more wrecks!' in brilliant rant

Dale Earnhardt Jr. has given an impassioned speech about how to make NASCAR a better experience for the viewer, and it's a simple one...sort of.

While it's not necessarily what you'd expect a team owner to say, he went on his Dale Jr. Download podcast this week to campaign delightedly for more wrecking in the sport.

The two-time Daytona 500 winner was clearly amped up when discussing the early stages of last Sunday's All-Star Race at Dover, admitting that his instinctive response to the race beginning with a big wreck on Lap 2 was 'hell yes!'

He did call it a 'shame' that the cars he was calling to be wrecked are expensive, but went on to insisted that, essentially, the Next Gen car is 'too good, too overengineered' compared to previous eras.

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Dale Jr.: We need more wrecks!

He burst into life during the segment early in the show, saying: "I love it! Carnage! We need more of that s***, we need more wrecks. There's not enough f****** wrecks, man!

"What's the counter to that? When the race started, I was sitting there going 'alright, man, I hope this ain't a total snoozefest', then they started destroying s*** and I'm like 'hell yes!'

"Like, even the fans in the grandstands during the replays, they weren't even ready for that s***. They all had their backs turned, they were like 'alright man, guess they're getting star---oh, s***! Holy cow! Chaos! This is Dover, nobody said this was gonna happen!'"

He continued: "That's what we need. I mean, it's a shame these cars cost $350,000, that ain't my fault. But they need to wreck these mo********ers, that's what I like to see. I like wreckin'. When I was a little kid, I loved the wrecks! I'd go in the garage, look at all the bent up s***, 'goddamn! I didn't think that part could bend!'

"Now you've got these guys, they go out there and run and run and run, nobody makes a mistake, car does everything right. Listen, the car's hard to drive, I know it is, but it does have great brakes on it – the brakes are way too good – everything on it's way too good, way too overengineered."