Cleetus McFarland does want to race in the NASCAR O’Reilly Series race on April 25 at Talladega Superspeedway and says he will find out on Tuesday if he did enough over the weekend at Rockingham Speedway to be approved.

He spoke to the topic on Monday in his Bald Eagles podcast.

“Now we’ve got to wait for an approval for Talladega which will come (Tuesday) whether we’re approved or not for me to run the O’Reilly car,” Cleetus said on Bald Eagles. “Really want to, but it’s in NASCAR’s hands.”

The 31-year-old YouTuber and amateur racer also added ‘I don’t care’ either way as a more realistic target were always the summer races at Daytona and Talladega.

“I didn’t ruin anyone’s race. Whatever they come back with, it is what it is,” McFarland said. “I think a lot of people on the internet are thinking I shouldn’t be approved. I don’t care whether I’m approved or not. I did not come into this opportunity saying, ‘NASCAR needs to approve me.’

“I never, in any instance, thought they should approve me. I just got this opportunity and said, ‘Great, what can we do?’ If they approve me to run ‘Dega, I’m running it.”

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After the NOAPS race on Saturday, one in which Cleetus finished six laps down, but did make it to the finish after one spin and several half-spins, Richard Childress Racing executive Danny Lawrence told Motorsport.com he wasn’t sure that enough was done to warrant a superspeedway license.

“Well, they’ll look at everything,” Lawrence said. “They might ask us to run another race because the thing about it is we didn’t get to do a live pit stop. There were a lot of things they wanted to see happen that didn’t happen.

“When he got sideways early, we automatically went into this conservation mode of just keep rolling and don’t push it too hard. So, it’s going to be close, but I would not be surprised if NASCAR didn’t want us to run another race before we got to Daytona and Talladega. Everything happens so fast there that we all want to be prepared when we do take him there.”

If he does not get NOAPS approval, Cleetus is still planning to race in the ARCA Racing Series event at Talladega this upcoming April race weekend. 

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