Alex Bowman will lose one of the co-primary sponsors on his No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet at the end of the season as Nationwide has announced it is ending its team sponsorship.The insurance company, alongside Axalta, sponsors a bulk of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season. A personal service...

Rick Hendrick didn't know much about Alex Bowman before his substitution role in the No. 88 last year.It was Dale Earnhardt Jr. who went to bat for the young driver, and soon the Hendrick Motorsports team owner began to keep an eye on him. So when Earnhardt Jr. informed Hendrick...

One year after Hendrick Motorsports called upon Alex Bowman to fill in for Dale Earnhardt Jr. the company handed Bowman the keys to the No. 88 for the 2018 season.Bowman will officially replace the retiring Earnhardt starting at Daytona International Speedway in February. The 2018 season will be Bowman's third...

Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s throwback scheme for September's Bojangles' Southern 500 will feature the Nationwide colors and pay homage to the AC Delco car from his back-to-back Xfinity Series championships in 1998 and 1999."Once I got into the AC Delco car in '98, I inherited this car from Steve Park," Earnhardt...

Above: The family of Private First Class James McClamrock inside the 48/88 shop at Hendrick Motorsports.No sooner had Susan McClamrock decided she needed a quiet Memorial Day than her phone went off.McClamrock's son, Private First Class James McClamrock, had been chosen by Nationwide to be represented on Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s...