“I’m not planning on racing next year,” Earnhardt said of the Xfinity Series. “I’ll be foolish to say I’m never going to run again because I don’t know well enough to stay away from it, and I’ll probably miss it next year and be absolutely willing to sign up for anything that might be beneficial to JR Motorsports.”

With how much The CW is paying for the Xfinity Series, they are getting results immediately. It is hard to tell how much of it was Earnhardt and how much moving to a new network t