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,

At the track that bursts with triumph and tragedy for his family, Earnhardt celebrated Thursday night when JR Motorsports and driver Justin Allgaier qualified for Sunday’s season-opening race.

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,