NASCAR Cup

Dale Earnhardt, Jr. quashed any talk of retirement on Sunday and promised to return to compete full time in the Sprint Cup Series in 2017.

Tropical storm Hermine made sure Chris Buescher’s path to the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup would be just a bit more difficult.

From a numbers standpoint, Kyle Larson’s victory at Michigan last Sunday made life more difficult for his Chip Ganassi Racing teammate, Jamie McMurray.

To Kyle Larson, perhaps the most comforting aspect of his Sunday victory at Michigan International Speedway was the liberation it provided from one of the most frequently-asked questions in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series garage.

Hendrick Motorsports announced Friday morning that driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. will miss the rest of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup season due to lingering effects from a concussion suffered in a crash at Michigan International Speedway on June 12.

One of the bigger surprises of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season was veteran stars Greg Biffle and Kasey Kahne failing to make the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.

NASCAR has postponed all track activity Friday and canceled qualifying for its Sprint Cup and Xfinity races at Darlington Raceway in anticipation of Hermine bringing inclement weather to the South Carolina track.

Charles Hardy, who founded an automobile dealership in Dallas, Georgia, in 1978, and whose holdings now include Hardy Chevrolet in Gainesville, has died. Hardy was also involved with NASCAR as a team owner, at one time with former NASCAR champion Bill Elliott.

Betty Jane France, a longtime community leader considered by many to be the first lady Of NASCAR, has died.

Despite a pit road problem that ruined his winning chances, Jimmie Johnson was surprisingly chipper after his sixth-place run in Sunday’s Pure Michigan 400 at Michigan Speedway.