Dale Jr. making plans for 2017:

#88-Dale Earnhardt Jr. met with members of the media Sunday:
Q: In your conversations with sponsors have you start committing to things for next year?
Earnhardt, Jr. ‘My intentions are to race and that is the plan that we have going forward so we are booking things as normal per usual. We are doing all our photoshoots and everything with anticipation of our sponsors marketing me as the driver of the #88 car. I think that is perfectly on track and a reasonable goal to be in the car and be competing in Daytona. We can’t sort of sit and wait. We’ve got to make a decision. Those types of things have to be decided quite early. So, we are moving forward with the plan to be in the car and I don’t see anything that says that is not going to happen. Things are good.’(Team Chevy)