2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series

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Cole Custer, the defending Xfinity Series champion.

The 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series will be the 43rd season of the NASCAR Xfinity Series, a stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in the United States. The season will start on February 17 with the United Rentals 300 at Daytona International Speedway and will end with the NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race on November 9 at Phoenix Raceway.[1][2]

Cole Custer of Stewart–Haas Racing enters the season as the defending 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series champion.[3]

Confirmed teams and drivers

Full-time teams

Manufacturer Team No. Driver Crew chief Notes
Chevrolet Alpha Prime Racing 43 Ryan Ellis TBA Ellis will compete full-time in 2024.[4]
44 Brennan Poole TBA Poole will run the No. 44 full-time in 2024, moving over from the JD Motorsports No. 6 car.[5]
Big Machine Racing 48 Parker Kligerman TBA Kligerman will continue with BMR in 2024.[6]
DGM Racing 91 Kyle Weatherman TBA Kyle Weatherman will drive the No. 91 full-time in 2024.[7]
JD Motorsports 4 Dawson Cram TBA Cram, who competed part-time in the series in 2023, has been announced as the full-time driver of the JD Motorsports No. 4.[8]
Jeremy Clements Racing 51 Jeremy Clements TBA Clements will return in 2024, having sold sponsorship for all races.[9][better source needed]
Jordan Anderson Racing 27 Jeb Burton TBA Burton and Retzlaff will return to JAR for the 2024 season.[10]
31 Parker Retzlaff TBA
JR Motorsports 1 Sam Mayer Mardy Lindley Mayer will return.[11] Mardy Lindley will continue to serve as the crew chief of the No. 1 in 2024[12]
7 Justin Allgaier Jim Pohlman Allgaier confirmed in his post-race interview after winning the 2023 Food City 300 that he was working on signing a one-year extension with JRM for 2024.[13] Jim Pohlman will continue to serve as the crew chief of the No. 7 in 2024.[12]
8 Sammy Smith Adam Wall Josh Berry will move to the Cup Series full-time in 2024, replacing Kevin Harvick in the No. 4 car for Stewart–Haas Racing.[14] Sammy Smith will move from Joe Gibbs Racing to JR Motorsports and drive the No. 8 car in 2024.[15] Adam Wall will serve as crew chief of the No. 8 in 2024.[12]
9 Brandon Jones Phillip Bell Jones signed a two-year deal with JRM in 2023 and will return to the No. 9 in 2024.[16][17] Phillip Bell will serve as crew chief of the No. 9 in 2024.[12]
Kaulig Racing 11 Josh Williams TBA Williams will move from the No. 92 DGM Racing car to Kaulig to drive the No. 11 full-time in 2024.[18]
16 A. J. Allmendinger TBA Although Chandler Smith signed a three-year deal with Kaulig in 2022, Joe Gibbs Racing bought out his contract and he will drive for JGR in 2024.[19] Kaulig confirmed that Smith would not return to the team in 2024.[20] A. J. Allmendinger has been announced as the full-time driver of the No. 16.[21]
97 Shane van Gisbergen (R) TBA Trackhouse Racing and Kaulig have announced that van Gisbergen will drive for Kaulig full-time in the Xfinity series in 2024.[22]
Mike Harmon Racing 74 TBA TBA The team renamed from CHK Racing back to their former name, Mike Harmon Racing, and will field the No. 74 car full-time according to a statement on their Facebook page.[23]
Our Motorsports 5 Anthony Alfredo TBA Alfredo will drive full-time the Our Motorsports No. 5 Chevrolet. Alfredo previously competed for the team in 2022.[24]
Richard Childress Racing 2 Jesse Love (R) Danny Stockman Jr.[25] Sheldon Creed will not return to RCR in 2024.[26] Jesse Love, the 2023 ARCA Menards Series champion, will replace Creed in the No. 2 car, with Whelen continuing as primary sponsor.[27] Danny Stockman Jr, who previously crew chiefed for RCR, winning Xfinity and Truck Series championships with Austin Dillon, returns to the team after crew chiefing for Kyle Busch Motorsports and Rev Racing and will be the new crew chief of the No. 2 car, replacing Jeff Stankiewicz.[25]
21 Austin Hill TBA Hill signed a contract extension with RCR and will remain in the Xfinity Series for the team in 2024.[28]
Ford AM Racing 15 Hailie Deegan (R) TBA On September 23, 2023, AM Racing announced that they would expand to two full-time cars in 2024. On October 5, 2023, the team announced they had signed Hailie Deegan to a multi-year deal.[29]
25 TBA TBA AMR will continue to field the No. 25 car full-time but has not yet announced if Brett Moffitt will return as the driver.[30]
RSS Racing TBA Kyle Sieg TBA Kyle Sieg will return to racing full-time in 2024.[31]
TBA Blaine Perkins 29 Perkins will drive for RSS full-time in 2024, with the number to be announced.[32]
39 Ryan Sieg TBA Ryan Sieg will return to the No. 39 car. SciAps will return as a sponsor, increasing sponsorship to cover the full season.[33]
Stewart–Haas Racing 00 Cole Custer TBA Custer will return to the No. 00 car in 2024.[34]
98 Riley Herbst TBA Herbst will return to the No. 98 car in 2024.[35]
Toyota Joe Gibbs Racing 18 Sheldon Creed Sam McAulay Creed, who parted ways with Richard Childress Racing at the end of the 2023 season, will drive full-time for JGR in the Xfinity Series in 2024.[19][36]
19 Ryan Truex TBA Seth Chavka The No. 19 car will run full-time with Truex, Graf Jr., Gray, and Sawalich sharing driving duties throughout the season.[36]
Joe Graf Jr. TBA
Taylor Gray TBA
William Sawalich 3
20 John Hunter Nemechek 10 Tyler Allen The team will split driving duties between Nemechek and Almirola in 2024, with Almirola running the majority.[36]
Aric Almirola TBA
81 Chandler Smith Jeff Meendering On December 13, 2023, Smith was announced as one of the full-time drivers for JGR in 2024, driving the No. 81 car.[36]

All other teams that ran full-time in the Xfinity Series in 2023 have yet to announce their 2024 plans.

Part-time teams

Limited schedule

Manufacturer Team No. Driver Races Notes
Chevrolet Mike Harmon Racing 47 TBA TBA The team renamed from CHK Racing back to their former name, Mike Harmon Racing, and will field the No. 47 car part-time according to a statement on their Facebook page.[23]

Notes

Other confirmed changes

Drivers

Crew chiefs

  • On October 27, 2023, Jason Ratcliff announced in an interview on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio that he would be retiring as a crew chief after the 2023 season. He crew chiefed the No. 19 car for Joe Gibbs Racing in 2023. He spent the majority of his 24-year career in NASCAR with JGR crew chiefing in the Cup and Xfinity Series and became the winningest crew chief in Xfinity Series history. He also crew chiefed for Brewco Motorsports in the Xfinity Series early in his career.[39] His replacement for 2024 has yet to be announced.
  • On November 13, 2023, it was announced that Ben Beshore, who crew chiefed Joe Gibbs Racing's No. 20 car driven by John Hunter Nemechek in 2023, would be moving up to the Cup Series with Nemechek on the Legacy Motor Club No. 42 car. JGR has yet to determine who will replace Beshore as crew chief of their No. 20 Xfinity Series car.[40]
  • On November 28, 2023, JR Motorsports revealed that Jason Burdett would not return to the team as a crew chief in 2024. Burdett crew chiefed for JRM for nine years, his first eight were on the No. 7 car with Regan Smith in 2015 and Justin Allgaier from 2016 to 2022 and his last year was on the No. 9 car with Brandon Jones. His replacement has yet to be announced and Burdett's 2024 plans have also yet to be determined.[41]

Potential and rumored changes

Drivers

  • On December 3, 2023, in a video from the Washington Commanders-Miami Dolphins NFL game that day, Joe Gibbs told Commanders owner Josh Harris that Aric Almirola would be driving for Joe Gibbs Racing in 2024. Although this has not yet been officially announced by the team, Almirola would likely run part-time in the Xfinity Series, which he has expressed interest in doing after retiring from driving full-time in NASCAR after the 2023 season. Almirola started his NASCAR career driving part-time for JGR in the Xfinity and ARCA Series from 2005 to 2007.[42]

Schedule

The entire schedule was released on October 4, 2023 and consists of 27 oval races, 5 road course races, and one street track race.[43]

Notes: Race names and title sponsors are subject to change. Not all title sponsors/names of races have been announced for 2024. For the races where a 2024 name and title sponsor has yet to be announced, the title sponsors/names of those races in 2023 are listed.

No Race title Track Location Date TV Radio
1 United Rentals 300  O  Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Florida February 17 FS1 MRN
2 RAPTOR King of Tough 250  O  Atlanta Motor Speedway Hampton, Georgia February 24 FS1 PRN
3 LiUNA Local 872 300  O  Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas, Nevada March 2 FS1 PRN
4 United Rentals 200  O  Phoenix Raceway Avondale, Arizona March 9 FS1 MRN
5 Pit Boss 250  R  Circuit of the Americas Austin, Texas March 23 FS1 PRN
6 ToyotaCare 250  O  Richmond Raceway Richmond, Virginia March 30 FS1 MRN
7 Call 811.com Before You Dig 250  O  Martinsville Speedway Ridgeway, Virginia April 6 FS1 MRN
8 Andy's Frozen Custard 300  O  Texas Motor Speedway Fort Worth, Texas April 13 FS1 PRN
9 Ag-Pro 300  O  Talladega Superspeedway Lincoln, Alabama April 20 Fox MRN
10 A-GAME 200  O  Dover Motor Speedway Dover, Delaware April 27 FS1 PRN
11 Shriners Children's 200  O  Darlington Raceway Darlington, South Carolina May 11 FS1 MRN
12 Alsco Uniforms 300  O  Charlotte Motor Speedway Concord, North Carolina May 25 Fox PRN
13 Pacific Office Automation 147  R  Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon June 1 FS1 MRN
14 DoorDash 250  R  Sonoma Raceway Sonoma, California June 8 FS1 PRN
15 Iowa Xfinity Race  O  Iowa Speedway Newton, Iowa June 15 USA MRN
16 Ambetter Health 200  O  New Hampshire Motor Speedway Loudon, New Hampshire June 22 USA PRN
17 Tennessee Lottery 250  O  Nashville Superspeedway Lebanon, Tennessee June 29 USA PRN
18 The Loop 110  S  Chicago Street Course Chicago, Illinois July 6 NBC MRN
19 Explore the Pocono Mountains 225  O  Pocono Raceway Long Pond, Pennsylvania July 13 USA MRN
20 Pennzoil 250  O  Indianapolis Motor Speedway Speedway, Indiana July 20 USA IMS
21 Cabo Wabo Tequila 250  O  Michigan International Speedway Brooklyn, Michigan August 17 USA MRN
22 Wawa 250  O  Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Florida August 23 USA MRN
23 Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200  O  Darlington Raceway Darlington, South Carolina August 31 USA MRN
24 Alsco Uniforms 250  O  Atlanta Motor Speedway Hampton, Georgia September 7 USA PRN
25 Shriners Children's 200 at The Glen  R  Watkins Glen International Watkins Glen, New York September 14 USA MRN
26 Food City 300  O  Bristol Motor Speedway Bristol, Tennessee September 20 USA PRN
NASCAR Xfinity Series Playoffs
Round of 12
27 Kansas Lottery 300  O  Kansas Speedway Kansas City, Kansas September 28 USA MRN
28 Sparks 300  O  Talladega Superspeedway Talladega, Alabama October 5 NBC MRN
29 Drive for the Cure 250  R  Charlotte Motor Speedway (Roval) Concord, North Carolina October 12 USA PRN
Round of 8
30 Alsco Uniforms 302  O  Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas, Nevada October 19 NBC PRN
31 Contender Boats 300  O  Homestead-Miami Speedway Homestead, Florida October 26 NBC MRN
32 Dead On Tools 250  O  Martinsville Speedway Ridgeway, Virginia November 2 USA MRN
Championship 4
33 NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race  O  Phoenix Raceway Avondale, Arizona November 9 USA MRN
O Oval track
R Road course
S Street course

See also

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