NASCAR Cup Series

NASCAR driver and team owner Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced today that one of his digital properties, Dirty Mo Radio, will launch its fourth season this week and debut a line-up that includes eight programs, four of which are brand new.

WWE Superstar and actor John Cena will serve as the Honorary Pace Car Driver for the 58th annual DAYTONA 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on Sunday, Feb. 21 at 1 p.m. at Daytona International Speedway (TV – FOX, FOX Deportes; Radio – MRN Radio, SiriusXM). Cena will pace the 43-car field to the green flag in a Toyota Camry.

Richard Petty Motorsports (RPM) heads to the 58th Annual Daytona 500 with the best foundation in recent years. During the off-season, the team expanded their staff, including multiple engineers and chassis designers, added new partners and a new driver, renewed or expanded business with all of its current partners, returned to its roots with a historic Petty family number and continued to grow their abilities building a race car. This growth puts RPM on their best footing leading into the start of the 2016 season.

75 Laps of Unlimited Racing: Once again, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season starts off with the Sprint Unlimited, which features 25 drivers racing 75 laps for the checkered flag. The non-points event features pole winners from last season, former Unlimited winners, former Daytona 500 pole winners, drivers who made the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup last season and then the highest drivers in points not falling into one of the previous categories.

Kroger and new JTG Daugherty Racing partners: “It’s awesome to have Kroger on board again in a big way to kick off our season,” Allmendinger said. “We’ve also added some new brands, Stouffer’s and Lean Cuisine, from the Nestlé USA family that will be on our hood with Kroger in the Sprint Unlimited.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series – Maximum 40-car field (36 Charter team cars, 4 Open team cars), race winner awarded 40 points, 40th place awarded one point.

NASCAR’s new, low-downforce aerodynamic rules package for Sprint Cup Series cars will debut at the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Feb. 28.

This week, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series heads down to Daytona International Speedway to kick off the annual ritual of Speedweeks. This consists of 10 days of activity that culminates on Feb. 21 with the 58th running of the Great American Race, the Daytona 500. But before we officially start the season, we need to get back into the racing mindset. To do that, we run the Sprint Unlimited.

NASCAR returns this week with the Sprint Unlimited at Daytona International Raceway Saturday night followed by Sprint Cup qualifying for the Daytona 500 on Sunday. FOX will provide television coverage for both events while all practices can be seen on FS1. Please see the complete schedule and the driver lineup for the Sprint Unlimited below.

We can't express enough how proud and thankful we are for the overwhelming expression of support for our team. NASCAR has pressed the reset button on the ownership structure and we hope it takes the sport in a positive direction.