Darlington Raceway, the track with the slogan "A NASCAR Tradition," has gone into cyberspace, ending the second-longest continuing sponsorship in NASCAR. Track officials said Friday the spring race March 19 would be renamed from the TranSouth 400 to the Mall.com 400. TranSouth, a financial services company, began sponsoring the race in 1982. The only longer sponsorship has been R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s backing of the Winston Cup series. Darlington president Jim Hunter said TranSouth transferred its sponsorship to Mall.com, an Internet company based in Austin, Texas. The Mall.com site features several internationally known retailers such as the Gap, Eddie Bauer and Neiman Marcus. TranSouth's sponsorship deal was to have ended after this year, but a management change at the company hastened the separation, Hunter said. "We gave (TranSouth) permission to do something with Mall.com," Hunter said. Hunter said the Mall.com deal was only for this year's race, but the company has an option to renew for up to three years, he said. While not getting specific, Hunter said sponsoring a Winston Cup event ranges from $700,000 to about $2-million. "Our spring race is on the lower end," he said. The track also has the Southern 500 on Labor Day weekend. On Wednesday, track officials also said the March 18 Busch Grand National event would be renamed the SunCom 200. It had been sponsored by Diamond Hill Plywood. The questions have persisted that NASCAR's oldest superspeedway could lose its spring race, but Hunter continues to say he is not worried about that. "There's nothing I can do about what people think," Hunter said. "We've been hearing for five years, "You're going to lose a race at Darlington.' But we're still here." He expects that NASCAR would give a track, especially one owned by International Speedway Corp. that also owns Daytona International Speedway and several other circuits, enough notice that it was off the schedule. "We haven't had that," he said. In recent years, the track has increased its seating to 80,000, switched its start-finish line to improve sight lines and flow, built new garage areas and hospitality facilities, moved all its pits to the frontstretch and upped its paved parking spaces. Changing the race's sponsor is trickier than just announcing a new name. The track's Web site still flashed the TranSouth logo on Friday and some printed material went out with the old race name. STIFF NECK STOPS SCHUMACHER: Michael Schumacher turned a few quick laps at the wheel of his new Ferrari Thursday before being stopped by a stiff neck in Fiorano, Italy. The German driver, a two-time world champion, was about three seconds faster than the times clocked in initial tests of last year's Ferrari model. OFF-TRACK: In Daytona Beach, two volunteer racing crew members visiting from Tennessee were shot by a masked robber who burst into their motel room across from the speedway. Police said the men were treated at Halifax Medical Center and their wounds were not life threatening. Authorities identified them as Glenn Prost, 38, of Old Hickory, and Robert Garvin, 30, of Smyrna.