Standing next to his team’s car before Thursday’s qualifying race at Daytona International Speedway, Dale Earnhardt Jr. looked at his sister, Kelley Earnhardt Miller, in amazement. “God dang,” he said to her before the invocation,

With the famed Daytona 500 inching closer, NASCAR finds itself standing at a crossroads regarding a potential sale of parts of the sport’s equity. Amid the speculations, developments are in full flow to make oval racing even more exciting,

Dale Earnhardt Jr. blinked back tears as the moment hit him at Daytona International Speedway — a track bursting with triumph and tragedy for his family — that he was, with a country star and a NASCAR champ in tow,