Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s decision to leave Dale Earnhardt Inc., his late father’s company, has had time to marinate.
He is moving on, and so is Dale Earnhardt Inc.
Earnhardt will finish the season with the team driving the familiar No. 8, and DEI and its 400 or so employees are soldiering on, but they already are working [...]

Pat Tryson, crew chief for Greg Biffle (right), has left Roush Fenway Racing, a team spokesperson confirmed Wednesday.
Team engineering manager Chris Andrews, a former crew chief, will take Tryson’s place in this weekend’s Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.

Ned Jarrett, one of the most popular motorsports announcers in history and a mainstay of ESPN’s NASCAR coverage for 15 years, will make a guest appearance alongside his son, Dale Jarrett, in the ESPN booth Saturday night during ESPN2’s live, prime-time coverage of the NASCAR Busch Series race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. The telecast will [...]

If Jeff Gordon is forced to miss a race to attend the birth of his daughter, series veteran Mark Martin will man the No. 24 Chevrolet, multiple sources within the Hendrick Motorsports organization told ESPN.com Wednesday.
Martin on Wednesday afternoon will be fitted for a racing seat in preparation for the substitute role, sources said, and [...]

Kyle Petty comments on the Car of Tomorrow, Dale Earnhardt, Jr and other NASCAR issues:
Do you think it’s good that NASCAR runs the COT full-time in 2008? “I think we should run the COT the second-half of 2007. These are smart people in the NASCAR garage. There are smart crew members, smart crew [...]

SPEED scored its highest rating in network history, earning a Nielsen Media Research mark of 3.53 (2,480,000 Households) for its inaugural coverage of the NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge on Saturday. The event, in its first of eight seasons on SPEED, peaked at 4.37 (3,064,000 Households) and held a 4-plus rating for final 90 minutes of [...]

Joe Gibbs Racing will “re-evaluate” its part-time Nextel Cup program for #80-Aric Almirola before allowing the 23-year-old to attempt to qualify for a second race, JGR vice president and development head Steve De Souza said. Almirola’s #80 Chevrolet was removed on Monday from the entry list for Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600, De Souza said, because the [...]

On this Memorial Day weekend, as the nation pays tribute to our heroes in the Armed Forces, RYR co-owner Doug Yates is asking his team to remember two local Charlotte heroes who lost their lives in the line of duty, Officers Jeff Shelton and Sean Clark of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police department. A native of Charlotte, [...]

James Hylton, the 72-year-old stock car competitor who attempted to qualify for this year’s Daytona 500, has been selected as the first-quarter recipient of the National Motorsports Press Association/Pocono Spirit Award. Hylton found himself in the national spotlight during 2007 Speedweeks at Daytona International Speedway when he attempted to become the oldest driver to qualify [...]