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Dale Earnhardt Jr. says NASCAR officials don’t need to be stricter in determining penalties for aggressive driving.

Earnhardt made his comments Tuesday, a day after NASCAR officials suggested that they might start calling penalties more closely for blocking and aggressive driving, particularly at Talladega and Daytona.

“I would advise against doing anything extra or being stricter,” Earnhardt said. “You run the risk of taking the race out of the drivers’ hands. I think we do a good job of policing it pretty much on our own now. I mean, it is a race.”

Series officials suggested they might need to make more judgment calls after a Talladega race that featured a 14-car crash early and ended with Carl Edwards’ car flying into the fence. Seven fans were injured from that incident.

Earnhardt says any kind of reaction to the racing by officials would be an overreaction.  - Full Story by Dustin Long – The Roanoke Times