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The 2022 NASCAR Cup Series will be the 74th season for NASCAR professional stock car racing in the United States and the 51st season for the modern era Cup Series. The season will start at Daytona International Speedway with the Busch Clash. That race will be followed by the Bluegreen Vacations Duel qualifying races, and the 64th running of the Daytona 500, the first points race of the season. The NASCAR playoffs will end with the Season Finale 500 at Phoenix Raceway on November 6.[1] This season will mark the debut of the Next Gen Car, which was originally supposed to debut in 2021, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Teams and drivers

Chartered teams

Manufacturer Team No. Driver Crew chief
Chevrolet Hendrick Motorsports 5 Kyle Larson[2] TBA
9 Chase Elliott[3] TBA
24 William Byron[4] TBA
48 Alex Bowman[5] TBA
JTG Daugherty Racing 47 TBA TBA
Kaulig Racing[6][7] 16 Justin Haley[7] TBA
TBA A. J. Allmendinger TBA[7] TBA
TBA
Richard Childress Racing 3 Austin Dillon TBA
8 Tyler Reddick TBA
Richard Petty Motorsports 43 Erik Jones[8] TBA
Spire Motorsports 7 Corey LaJoie[9][7] TBA
Trackhouse Racing Team[10] 1 Ross Chastain[11] TBA
99 Daniel Suárez TBA
Ford Front Row Motorsports 34 TBA TBA
38 TBA TBA
Live Fast Motorsports 78 TBA TBA
Roush Fenway Racing 6 Brad Keselowski[12] TBA
17 Chris Buescher[13] TBA
Stewart-Haas Racing 4 Kevin Harvick[14] Rodney Childers[15]
10 Aric Almirola[16] TBA
14 Chase Briscoe TBA
41 TBA TBA
Team Penske 2 Austin Cindric (R)[17] TBA
12 Ryan Blaney[18] TBA[19]
22 Joey Logano[20] TBA
Wood Brothers Racing 21 Harrison Burton (R)[21] TBA
Toyota 23XI Racing 23 Bubba Wallace[22] TBA
Joe Gibbs Racing 11 Denny Hamlin[23] TBA
18 Kyle Busch[24] TBA
19 Martin Truex Jr.[25] TBA
20 TBA TBA
TBA Petty Ware Racing[N 1] 51 TBA TBA
TBA Rick Ware Racing 15 TBA TBA
TBA 52 TBA TBA
TBA 53 TBA TBA
TBA TBA[N 2] TBA TBA TBA

Non-chartered teams

Complete schedule

Manufacturer Team No. Driver Crew chief
Toyota 23XI Racing 45 Kurt Busch[26] TBA

Limited schedule

Manufacturer Team No. Driver Crew chief Rounds
Chevrolet GMS Racing[27] TBA TBA 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.
  2. ^ The buyer of StarCom Racing's charter has not been announced.

Silly Season news and updates

Confirmed changes

Teams

  • On April 28, 2021, Kaulig Racing announced they would run at least one full-time Cup car in 2022. The team made their Cup Series debut in the 2020 Daytona 500 with their Xfinity Series driver Justin Haley driving the No. 16 car. They then entered the No. 16 in all superspeedways (with Kaz Grala) and road course races (with their Xfinity Series driver A. J. Allmendinger) in 2021.[6] On June 18, the team announced that Haley would drive the No. 16 full-time in 2022.[7] On June 5, team owner Matt Kaulig announced that Allmendinger would return to run the road courses and would also run the superspeedway races for the team in the Cup Series in 2022. Because Matt Kaulig also then announced that their full-time car will have one full-time driver, Allmendinger will drive a new second Cup Series car for Kaulig.[6] On June 18, the team announced that they had purchased two charters from Spire Motorsports, meaning that Allmendinger's car (the number has yet to be determined) will run full-time with multiple drivers sharing the ride.[7]
  • On June 10, 2021, Justin Marks told Sirius XM NASCAR Radio that his Trackhouse Racing Team may expand to a two-car operation in 2022.[28] On June 30, the team announced that they had purchased the entirety of Chip Ganassi Racing's NASCAR operations, effective at the end of the 2021 season.[10]
  • On June 17, 2021, it was announced that Truck Series team GMS Racing would debut in the Cup Series in 2022. It was not announced whether the team would run full-time or part-time and the car number has also yet to be determined.[27]
  • On June 18, 2021, Spire Motorsports announced the sale of two of its three charters to Kaulig Racing. The team will only have one charter in 2022 for Corey LaJoie's No. 7 car. Plans for the team's No. 77 car, which now does not have a charter for 2022, have yet to be determined.[7]
  • On May 29, 2021, Denny Hamlin hinted that 23XI Racing may expand to a two-car operation in 2022, with or without a charter.[29] On August 14, Bob Pockrass of Fox Sports reported a potential deal between 23XI and Front Row Motorsports that would allow 23XI to lease or purchase one of FRM's charters.[30] On August 27, 2021, the official announcement of Kurt Busch driving the second 23XI car (the No. 45) came, although the team did not announce whether they had purchased a charter for that car.[26]
  • On August 31, 2021, JTG Daugherty Racing announced that it will scale down to one full-time team (the No. 47) in 2022. This means that the No. 37, which is running full-time without a charter in 2021, would be shut down at the end of the season.[31]
  • On September 1, 2021, Catchfence.com reported that StarCom Racing sold its charter. The purchasing team has yet to be announced.[32]

Drivers

  • On May 18, 2021, Jim Utter from Motorsport.com reported that Brad Keselowski, whose contract with Team Penske ends after the 2021 season, was offered a full-time Cup Series ride with Roush Fenway Racing in 2022, with a partial ownership stake in the team. Later in the day, Bob Pockrass from Fox Sports reported that it was a "done deal, according to multiple industry sources with knowledge of the situation." Keselowski declined to comment on the matter when asked about it in an interview. On July 15, Keselowski released a statement confirming his decision to part ways with Team Penske at the end of the season.[33] On July 20, Roush Fenway Racing Team President Steve Newmark made it official that Keselowski would join the team as a driver-owner starting in 2022, replacing Ryan Newman in the No. 6 car.[34]
  • On May 30, 2021, Jordan Bianchi from The Athletic reported that Kurt Busch, whose contract with Chip Ganassi Racing ends after the 2021 season, was the top candidate for 23XI Racing should they open a second team in 2022.[35] After months of speculation that this would happen, particularly after Trackhouse's purchase of CGR's NASCAR team for 2022, on August 27, 2021, 23XI officially announced that Kurt Busch would drive their new second car, which would be the No. 45, one of team co-owner Michael Jordan's other numbers during his legendary basketball career.[26]
  • On July 15, 2021, Team Penske confirmed that 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series champion Austin Cindric would replace Brad Keselowski in the No. 2 car. Cindric drove the Team Penske No. 33 car part-time in 2021.[17]
  • On July 15, 2021, Wood Brothers Racing announced that Xfinity Series driver Harrison Burton would drive the No. 21 in 2022. Austin Cindric was originally signed to drive the Penske-affiliated team, but Brad Keselowski's departure from Team Penske resulted in Cindric's move to the No. 2.[21] This driver change effectively makes Matt DiBenedetto a free agent in 2022.[36][37]
  • On July 20, 2021, Roush Fenway Racing offered Ryan Newman a partial schedule after giving Brad Keselowski the No. 6 for the 2022 season.[38]
  • On August 3, 2021, Trackhouse Racing Team announced that Ross Chastain would drive their second car, the No. 1, in 2022.[11]
  • With JTG Daugherty Racing shutting down the No. 37 team at the end of the 2021 season, either Ryan Preece or Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will be without a ride in 2022. The team has not yet announced who will be their driver.[31]

Crew chiefs

  • On June 28, 2021, Team Penske crew chief Todd Gordon announced that 2021 would be his final season as a crew chief.[19] The team has yet to announce who Ryan Blaney's new crew chief in 2022 will be.

Confirmed returning sponsorship

Potential and rumored changes

Teams

Rule changes

  • On August 27, 2021, after over a year of speculation, it was announced that the car numbers would be moved forward on the Cup Series cars beginning in 2022, coinciding with the debut of the Next Gen car. NASCAR experimented with car number placement at the 2020 All-Star Race by moving the numbers back. Either of those ways results in more space for sponsor logos and therefore more revenue for the race teams.[50]

Schedule

No Race title Track Date
Busch Clash Daytona International Speedway (Road Course), Daytona Beach, Florida
Bluegreen Vacations Duel Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Florida
1 Daytona 500 February 20[51]
2 Auto Club 400 Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, California February 27[52]
NASCAR Playoffs
Round of 16
27
28
29
Round of 12
30
31
32
Round of 8
33
34
35
Championship 4
36 Season Finale 500 Phoenix Raceway, Phoenix, Arizona November 6[1]

Bolded races indicate a NASCAR Major, also known as a Crown Jewel race.

Revealed Races (Dates TBA)

Schedule changes

  • Auto Club Speedway returns to the schedule for the first time in two years as a result of state COVID-19 regulations in California forcing the cancellation of the 2021 race. It is scheduled for the weekend after the Daytona 500 (February 25, 26 and 27), which would make it the second race of the season for the first time since 2010.[52] This will also be the last race at the track before its reconfiguration into a short track for 2023.

Potential and rumored changes

See also

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