Casey Mears to leave Hendrick Motorsports.
Mears, the weakest link on NASCAR's strongest team, has decided to leave Hendrick Motorsports.
"We just really, really struggled," Mears said. "The team as a whole, and then us seemed to struggle a little bit more the first half of the season. It's unfortunate that things happened the way they have."
Team owner Rick Hendrick didn't offer a potential replacement to join Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon or Jimmie Johnson in his stable of Sprint Cup drivers.