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The 2021 NASCAR Cup Series will be the 73rd season for NASCAR professional stock car racing in the United States and the 50th season for the modern era Cup Series. The season will start at the Daytona International Speedway with the Busch Clash non-points event. It will be the first year the race is run on the road course, and the second on the track.[1] The race will be followed by the Bluegreen Vacations Duel qualifying races, and the 63rd running of the Daytona 500.

Teams and drivers

Chartered teams

Manufacturer Team No. Driver Crew chief
Chevrolet Chip Ganassi Racing 1 Kurt Busch[2] TBA
42 Ross Chastain[3] TBA
Hendrick Motorsports 5 Kyle Larson[4] Cliff Daniels[4]
9 Chase Elliott[5] TBA
24 William Byron[6] Rudy Fugle[7]
48 Alex Bowman[8][9] Greg Ives[9]
JTG Daugherty Racing 37 TBA TBA
47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.[10] TBA
Richard Childress Racing 3 Austin Dillon TBA
8 Tyler Reddick[11] TBA
Richard Petty Motorsports 43 Erik Jones[12] Jerry Baxter[12]
Spire Motorsports[13] 77 TBA TBA
TBA TBA TBA
StarCom Racing 00 Quin Houff[14] TBA
Trackhouse Racing Team 99 Daniel Suárez[15] TBA
Ford Front Row Motorsports 34 TBA TBA
38 TBA TBA
Roush Fenway Racing 6 Ryan Newman[10] TBA
17 Chris Buescher[10] TBA
Stewart-Haas Racing 4 Kevin Harvick[16] Rodney Childers[17]
10 Aric Almirola[18] TBA
14 Chase Briscoe (R)[19][20] TBA
41 TBA TBA
Team Penske 2 Brad Keselowski[21][22] TBA
12 Ryan Blaney[23] TBA
22 Joey Logano[24] TBA
Wood Brothers Racing 21 Matt DiBenedetto[25] TBA
Toyota 23XI Racing[26][27] 23 Bubba Wallace[26] Mike Wheeler[28]
Joe Gibbs Racing 11 Denny Hamlin[29] TBA
18 Kyle Busch[30] TBA
19 Martin Truex Jr.[31] TBA
20 Christopher Bell[32] TBA
TBA B. J. McLeod Motorsports
with Joe Falk and Matt Tifft[33] 		78 TBA TBA
Petty Ware Racing[N 1] 51 TBA TBA
Rick Ware Racing 15 TBA TBA
27 TBA TBA
53 TBA TBA

Non-chartered teams

Limited schedule

Manufacturer Team No. Driver Crew chief Rounds
Ford Go Fas Racing[34] 32 TBA TBA TBA
Team Penske TBA Austin Cindric[25] TBA TBA

Notes

  1. ^ The No. 51 car is officially listed on paper as Petty Ware Racing because they have a long-term partnership with Richard Petty Motorsports to use one of the charters they own. However, RPM is not involved with operating or helping this team out at the races in any way.

Changes

Teams

  • On July 23, 2020, it was reported that Leavine Family Racing owner Bob Leavine solicited bids for the team due to the financial fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.[35] On August 4, Leavine confirmed that his team has been sold and will cease operations at the end of the 2020 season.[36] On August 11, the team's charter was officially sold to Spire Motorsports.[13]
  • With its purchase of Leavine Family Racing's assets, Spire Motorsports will expand into a two-car operation in 2021.[37] On August 24, the team announced they are looking for two full-time drivers for next season.[38] On October 8, it was revealed that Spire Motorsports secured a third charter and has leased it to Trackhouse Racing Team in 2021.[39]
  • On September 1, 2020, it was reported that Germain Racing owner Bob Germain was exploring conversations for a potential sale of the team due to lack of sponsorship, as their contract with primary sponsor GEICO expires at the end of the 2020 season and it was confirmed four days later that they would not return for the 2021 season.[40] Their charter was later put up for bid, and was purchased on September 21, meaning Germain will cease operations at the end of the 2020 season.[26]
  • On September 21, 2020, retired NBA player and Charlotte Hornets owner Michael Jordan announced that he and Denny Hamlin would be forming 23XI Racing with Bubba Wallace as the driver after purchasing the charter from Germain Racing, which will close down after the 2020 season.[26]
  • On October 7, 2020, Trackhouse Racing Team announced its entry into the Cup Series, fielding a single entry for Daniel Suárez in 2021. Co-owned by Justin Marks, the team will field Chevrolets with a technical alliance with Richard Childress Racing and has leased a charter from Spire Motorsports.[15][39]
  • On October 22, 2020, Go Fas Racing owner Archie St. Hilaire announced that the team would scale down to a part-time schedule in 2021. Joe Falk will continue to own half of the team's charter while St. Hilaire will transfer his half to Falk's new business partner. Go Fas Racing will continue to lease their second charter to Wood Brothers Racing.[34] The following day, it was announced that B. J. McLeod and Matt Tifft had purchased Go Fas Racing's ownership stake in the charter, and it would be moved from the No. 32 to McLeod's No. 78, meaning that car will run full-time with a charter in 2021.[33]
  • On October 28, 2020, Hendrick Motorsports announced that the No. 88 team will be renumbered to the No. 5 in 2021.[4]

Drivers

Crew chiefs

  • On September 29, 2020, it was announced that the crew chiefing career of Hendrick Motorsports' seven-time championship winning crew chief Chad Knaus would end after the 2020 season, as he would be promoted to Vice President of Competition for the team starting in 2021. On October 26, 2020, it was announced that Knaus' replacement on the No. 24 car of William Byron would be Rudy Fugle, a decorated Truck Series crew chief for Kyle Busch Motorsports, who worked with Byron in 2016, winning seven races together. Fugle has won 28 races, two drivers' championships and five owners' championships with KBM.[7]
  • On October 6, 2020, Hendrick Motorsports announced that crew chief Greg Ives would join Alex Bowman in moving from the No. 88 to the No. 48 team in 2021.[9]
  • On October 28, 2020, Cliff Daniels, formerly the crew chief for Jimmie Johnson on the No. 48, was announced to be crew chief for Kyle Larson in Hendrick's No. 5 (formerly No. 88) car, switching teams with Ives.[4]
  • On October 30, 2020, 23XI Racing announced that Mike Wheeler would be the crew chief of the No. 23 with Bubba Wallace in 2021.[28]

Manufacturers

Sponsorship

  • On September 5, 2020, it was revealed that GEICO would not return to sponsor the No. 13 Germain Racing team in 2021, although they would remain a premier partner of the NASCAR Cup Series.[40]

Schedule

The 2021 Cup Series schedule was supposed to be released in the spring of 2020, but its release was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[51] The 2021 schedule has been expected to see a number of significant changes, in large part due to the fact that the five year contracts signed in 2015 with each track to host races from 2016 to 2020 will be ending. Some of the widely speculated changes to the schedule for 2021 include the addition of midweek races and doubleheaders, which would allow NASCAR to shorten the nine month long season.[52] NASCAR had scheduled their first ever doubleheader on the original 2020 schedule at Pocono, before COVID-19 resulted in Michigan and Dover gaining doubleheader weekends. NASCAR also had to schedule midweek races for the series for first time in the modern era as a result of the COVID-19 schedule changes. NASCAR president Steve Phelps stated on September 1, 2020 that the schedule may be released in pieces due to COVID-19 and the complications of which tracks would be able to host races due to state regulations and guidelines.[53] The official 2021 schedule was released on September 30, 2020.[54]

No Race title Track Date
Busch Clash Daytona International Speedway (Road Course), Daytona Beach, Florida February 9
Bluegreen Vacations Duel Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Florida February 11
1 Daytona 500 February 14
2 Dixie Vodka 400 Homestead–Miami Speedway, Homestead, Florida February 21[55]
3 Auto Club 400 Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, California February 28[56]
4 Pennzoil 400 Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, Nevada March 7
5 FanShield 500 Phoenix Raceway, Phoenix, Arizona March 14[57]
6 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, Georgia March 21[58]
7 Food City Dirt Race Bristol Motor Speedway (Dirt Course), Bristol, Tennessee March 28
8 Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500 Martinsville Speedway, Ridgeway, Virginia April 10[59]
9 Toyota Owners 400 Richmond Raceway, Richmond, Virginia April 18[60]
10 GEICO 500 Talladega Superspeedway, Lincoln, Alabama April 25[61]
11 Super Start Batteries 400 Kansas Speedway, Kansas City, Kansas May 2
12 TBA Darlington Raceway, Darlington, South Carolina May 9
13 Drydene 400 Dover International Speedway, Dover, Delaware May 16
14 TBA Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas May 23
15 Coca-Cola 600 Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, North Carolina May 30
16 Toyota/Save Mart 350 Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, California June 6
NASCAR All Star Open Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, Texas June 13
NASCAR All-Star Race
17 TBA Nashville Superspeedway, Lebanon, Tennessee June 20[62]
18 TBA Pocono Raceway, Long Pond, Pennsylvania June 26
19 TBA June 27
20 TBA Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin July 4
21 Quaker State 400 Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, Georgia July 11[58]
22 Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, New Hampshire July 18
23 Go Bowling at The Glen Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, New York August 8
24 TBA Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Road Course), Speedway, Indiana August 15
25 FireKeepers Casino 400[63] Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn, Michigan August 22
26 Coke Zero Sugar 400 Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Florida August 28
NASCAR Cup Championship Playoffs
Round of 16
27 Cook Out Southern 500 Darlington Raceway, Darlington, South Carolina September 5
28 Federated Auto Parts 400 Richmond Raceway, Richmond, Virginia September 11
29 Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tennessee September 18
Round of 12
30 South Point 400 Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, Nevada September 26
31 YellaWood 500 Talladega Superspeedway, Lincoln, Alabama October 3
32 Bank of America Roval 400 Charlotte Motor Speedway (Road Course), Concord, North Carolina October 10
Round of 8
33 Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, Texas October 17
34 Hollywood Casino 400 Kansas Speedway, Kansas City, Kansas October 24
35 Xfinity 500 Martinsville Speedway, Ridgeway, Virginia October 31
Championship 4
36 Bluegreen Vacations 500 Phoenix Raceway, Phoenix, Arizona November 7[57]

Schedule changes

Further information: History of NASCAR schedule realignments
  • The Busch Clash will be moved from the Sunday before the Daytona 500 to the Tuesday before (on February 9), in an effort to condense Speedweeks down to one week. The race will also be moved from the oval to the infield road course for the first time. The Daytona 500 will be held on Sunday, February 14.[64]
  • Phoenix Raceway will host Cup races on March 7 and November 7, the latter being the championship date.[57]
  • Nashville Superspeedway will host a Cup race, scheduled for Sunday, June 20 (Father's Day). It will be the first time the speedway will host a NASCAR Cup Series event, and the first time the track has hosted any NASCAR events since 2011. In order to put the track on the schedule, its owner, Dover Motorsports, moved one of their two Cup races at Dover (a track which they also own) to Nashville.[62]
  • On September 29, it was reported that Kentucky Speedway and Chicagoland Speedway would not be on the 2021 schedule,[65]
  • On September 30, NASCAR announced that Atlanta Motor Speedway would expand to two races, picking up the Quaker State 400 from Kentucky.[58]
  • On the same day, Road America was added back to the schedule for the first time since a Grand National race 65 years prior.[66] The race is scheduled for July 4, replacing the race weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
  • With the release of the 2021 schedule, NASCAR announced that its race at Indianapolis would be run on the track's road course configuration.[67]
  • The Cup Series will also race on dirt for the first time since 1970 as the spring race at Bristol Motor Speedway will have the concrete half-mile covered in dirt.[68]

See also

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