Dale Earnhardt Jr. says he’s “had enough” as he rides out the worst season of his NASCAR career. Earnhardt is stuck in a 51-race winless streak dating back to 2008, his first season with Hendrick Motorsports. He heads into Saturday night’s race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway ranked 22nd in the standings and has just five top-10s this season.

Top NASCAR officials meet with the public in South Carolina to listen to ways to improve their sport. The Friday forum on motorsports marketing is being held at Coastal Carolina University in Conway.

Free Pennington was at Jones Creek, Thursday afternoon, but he wasn’t driving his golf ball down the fairway…instead he was driving his number 7 Free American Racing Chevy car. WJBF News Channel 6’s Sports Director Chris Kane has more.

Mark Martin held off Juan Pablo Montoya on a late frantic restart to win the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship opener at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Richard Childress Racing says it is losing sponsor Jack Daniels at the end of the season. Jack Daniels has been a primary sponsor with RCR since 2005 and spent this season with driver Casey Mears on the No. 07 Chevrolet.

Suspended NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against his estranged stepmother over the 2007 death of his father.

Brian Vickers outlasted Jimmie Johnson in yet another fuel-mileage duel at Michigan International Speedway, taking the lead with two laps to go after Johnson ran out of gas and holding on for his first Sprint Cup victory of the season Sunday.

Denny Hamlin has ended a 50-race winless skid by holding off Juan Pablo Montoya over the final thrilling laps to win at Pocono Raceway. Hamlin again made Pocono his personal playground, winning on Monday for the third time in eight career starts. He’s had three other top 10s on the triangle track.

Tony George wants to know why he was ousted as CEO of Indianapolis Motor Speedway. George used his IndyCar team’s Web site Sunday to reflect on the move, claiming he has not received a “reasonable explanation” from the company’s board of directors, which consists primarily of family members.

Jimmie Johnson became the first driver to win back-to-back races at The Brickyard when a speeding penalty knocked Juan Pablo Montoya out of contention.

An appeals court has ruled in NASCAR’s favor, granting its request to keep Jeremy Mayfield off the race track. The decision Friday by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals means Mayfield is once again suspended for failing a May 1 random drug test.

Three cars from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s museum will make the trip south for the Darlington Historic Racing Festival.

Darlington Raceway’s Historic Racing Festival has signed O’Reilly Auto Parts as a presenting sponsor.

Bump-drafting, slingshot passing and restrictor-plate racing weren’t the buzzwords being thrown around Daytona International Speedway on Thursday. There was way more talk about affidavits, B samples, false positives and a judge’s temporary injunction that reinstated suspended NASCAR owner-driver Jeremy Mayfield.

Two South Carolina NASCAR champions will be the featured guests at Darlington Raceway’s Historic Racing Festival in September. Three-time NASCAR champions, Cale Yarborough and David Pearson, will take part in the track’s second gathering on Sept. 26-27. Also attending will be longtime sport promoter and former Lowe’s Motor Speedway president and general manager, H.A. “Humpy” Wheeler.

If Mark Martin keeps winning like this, even he might have to concede that he’s racing for a Sprint Cup championship. The 50-year-old Martin won for the second time in four races, outlasting Jimmie Johnson in a wreck-filled show at Darlington Raceway on Saturday night.

NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield has been suspended indefinitely after failing a random drug test. The result stems from a test last weekend at Richmond International Raceway.

Matt Kenseth set a Darlington Raceway record in winning his first pole in four years Friday, while three-time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson will start near the back for the Southern 500 after a qualifying crash.

As tailgaters pulled into Darlington Raceway’s infield area and set up across the street, the Fifth Annual Darlington Car Hauler Parade and Festival at Florence Civic Center welcomed crowds of race fans to celebrate the beginning of race weekend in the Pee Dee.

A retro font was used to paint the walls at the track at Darlington Raceway.

Mark Martin will drive a full Sprint Cup schedule for Hendrick Motorsports in 2010.

Speedway Motorsports Inc. officials say
they have made an official request with NASCAR to add Kentucky to
the 2010 Sprint Cup Series schedule.

Darlington Raceway has already cut ticket prices. Now, track officials are slicing the cost to eat at Saturday night’s Southern 500. The track said Monday that a hot dog would go from $4 to $3, as would a bottle of water.

Kyle Busch planned to open the bulk of his birthday presents when he returned home from Richmond International Raceway. “What do you get a guy who has everything or buys anything he wants?“ he wondered. How about a trip to Victory Lane?

Brian Vickers turned a lap at 127.131 mph
to win the pole position for Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint Cup
Series race at Richmond International Raceway.

NASCAR officials are not considering changing the racing surface at Talladega Superspeedway following a spectacular last-lap accident that sent debris flying into the grandstands.

Brad Keselowski has won his first Sprint Cup Series race by pushing Carl Edwards into the lead, then driving off to victory when contact between the two cars sent Edwards sailing into the fence at Talladega Superspeedway.

Juan Pablo Montoya won the first pole of his NASCAR career on Saturday with a strong lap at Talladega Superspeedway.

Jeff Gordon says the back pain he had last week at Phoenix International Raceway has yet to go away and he expects to drive with some discomfort this season.

School was in session Wednesday for Joey Logano. The 18-year-old Logano was taking notes while getting some pointers from three-time Cup champion Cale Yarborough as the two went around Darlington Raceway.