Ryan Newman will run his first NASCAR Truck race in 3 years when he enters the Bristol dirt event for the newly-formed DCC Racing. He will drive the #39, which he previously used in his early dirt career and at the Cup level.
Kyle Larson will run his first NASCAR Truck race since 2016 when he enters the Bristol dirt event for Niece Motorsports as a ringer.
Denny Hamlin, Austin Cindric, and John Hunter Nemechek will start on the poles for Atlanta.
Truck Series driver and dirt ace Stewart Friesen will make his NASCAR Cup Series début on the Bristol dirt course for Spire Motorsports.
Brad Keselowski and Daniel Suárez will be without crew chiefs Jeremy Bullins and Travis Mack for Atlanta after missing lug nuts in Phoenix. Grant Hutchens and Jose Blasco will take their places; Blasco and Suárez will form a Mexican driver/CC duo.
2018 World of Outlaws Late Model champ Mike Marlar will run the NASCAR Trucks at Bristol for Hill Motorsports, followed by his Cup début the next day for MBM.
Two days after winning his second NASCAR Xfinity race of the season, Austin Cindric revealed he will run his second career Cup race this Sunday at Atlanta.
Shortly after winning his first NASCAR Cup race of the season, Martin Truex Jr. confirmed he will run his first Truck Series race in 15 years when he enters the Bristol dirt race in a truck for team-mate Kyle Busch.
In his 31st Cup try, Martin Truex Jr. took the lead from Joey Logano with 25 laps to go to win his maiden NASCAR race at Phoenix.
In an Xfinity race plagued by wrecks (especially in the final stage) and even a double middle-finger salute, Austin Cindric avoided additional chaos in overtime en route to his tenth win in the series.
For the first time since 2007, Bill Lester will compete in NASCAR as he has joined David Gilliland Racing for the Truck Series race at Atlanta. Lester was the first full-time black driver in Truck Series history in the early 2000s.
Jessica Friesen will make her NASCAR Truck Series début in the Bristol dirt race, driving the #62 for Halmar Friesen Racing as a team-mate to her husband Stewart Friesen.
Fresh off runner-up finishes in Las Vegas, Brad Keselowski and Daniel Hemric will lead the Cup and Xfinity grids to green in Phoenix.
Cup drivers Kevin Harvick and Ryan Preece will run his first NASCAR Truck race since 2015 and make his series debut, respectively, for David Gilliland. Harvick will also run three Xfinity road course races for Stewart-Haas.
Due to sponsorship and personal reasons, Devon Rouse’s NASCAR Truck début at Bristol will not happen as planned, but he still intends to race at Knoxville in July.
Cole Custer's crew chief Mike Shiplett suspended for Phoenix after lug nut violations at Vegas
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Mike Shiplett, the crew chief of Cole Custer’s #41 Stewart-Haas Racing machine, has been suspended for the upcoming NASCAR Cup race in Phoenix after the #41 was found with two loose lug nuts in Vegas.
Japanese driver Akinori Ogata will return to the NASCAR Truck Series in a part-time schedule for Reaume Brothers Racing starting at Atlanta in late March.
