Steve O’Donnell: NASCAR's Next Big Move

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5 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. sits down with NASCAR President Steve O’Donnell to talk about NASCAR’s latest announcement: increasing horsepower at select tracks, Playoff formats, the lawsuit, and more.

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0:00.0	Let's dive into one of the reasons why you came out here today.
0:04.0	Yes, sir.
0:04.4	I guess there's a change that's been discussed and been debated for a while now about horsepower with this car.
0:13.1	And so there's a commitment going forward to go up on horsepower.
0:16.8	So still a little bit of debate, but I think, you know, talk to probes about this today. So we're going to go every track under a mile and a half. You're going to see 7.50. Yeah, there were some debate, Darlington, Nashville. Road courses? Road courses. We're going to see it. So, yeah, 750. The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media.
0:41.0	Hey everybody, it's Dale Jr. back again for another episode of the Dale Jr.
0:41.4	Download.
0:44.9	And today we got a great guest coming in here, Steve O'Donnell, the president of NASCAR.
0:47.2	We got a lot of questions to get to.
0:52.4	We probably got about three hours worth of questions and only one hour with Steve.
0:55.5	So we'll have to be selective and we're not going to get to everything that you want to know about, but we're going to try.
0:58.2	All right, let's bring Steve in and get started.
1:08.0	All right, so Steve O'Donnell and the Dale Jenner Download.
1:11.2	Great to be here, man.
1:12.5	Thanks for having.
1:13.1	Yeah, thanks for coming through.
1:14.8	I've known you a long time.
1:19.7	You've got a new role in NASCAR.
1:22.2	You were appointed the president of NASCAR.
1:26.2	They moved Steve Phelps up to commissioner.
1:28.7	Has there ever, there wasn't a commissioner?
1:30.3	No, there was.
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