The eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series, created last spring shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic paused the NASCAR season, will return in March 2021 on a ten-race schedule that includes new races on the real-life calendar.
A.J. Allmendinger will run his first NASCAR Cup race since 2018 when he enters the Daytona road course event for Kaulig Racing.
Reigning NASCAR Xfinity Series champion Austin Cindric will make his Cup Series début in the season-opening Daytona 500, driving a newly-opened #33 car for Team Penske.
Former Daytona 500 winner-turned-NASCAR announcer Jamie McMurray will return to the driver’s seat for the 2021 race, once again driving for Spire Motorsports.
Josh Bilicki to run full 2021 Cup season for Rick Ware Racing, Derrike Cope tabbed for Daytona 500
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Rick Ware Racing has added Josh Bilicki for a full-time Cup campaign in the #52, while 1990 Daytona 500 winner Derrike Cope returns to the race in the team’s #15.
Ty Dillon will drive a Toyota for the first time in his career as he joins Gaunt Brothers Racing for the Daytona 500.
Cody Ware, who has raced sporadically in NASCAR’s national series since 2013, will run the full 2021 Cup Series schedule for his family team Rick Ware Racing.
Grammy-winning musician Pitbull has thrown his hat into the NASCAR team ownership ring as he becomes one of the owners of the newly-formed Trackhouse Racing Cup team. The team will début in February’s Daytona 500 with Daniel Suárez.
Noah Gragson will make his NASCAR Cup Series début in the 2021 Daytona 500 with Beard Motorsports.
Kaz Grala has joined Kaulig Racing for his Daytona 500 debut in February. He will also run various other races for the team, which hopes to attempt the Cup road course and superspeedways.
For the 2021 NASCAR Cup season, eight races will have practice and qualifying beforehand: the Daytona 500, Bristol Dirt, Circuit of the Americas, Coca-Cola 600, Nashville, Road America, Indianapolis road coure, and Phoenix.
With plans to run full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series in the future, Kaulig Racing will prepare by running the superspeedway and road course races in 2021, including the Daytona 500.
Antony Alfredo joins McDowell, and Front Row in Cup, Ragan returns for Daytona, Gilliland returns for Trucks
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Part-time NASCAR Xfinity driver Anthony Alfredo will race for Cup Rookie of the Year with Front Row Motorsports alongside the returning Michael McDowell. Todd Gilliland will return on the Truck side, and David Ragan is back for the Daytona 500.
MBM Motorsports will return to the Daytona 500 in 2021 with Timmy Hill and Chad Finchum. Finchum will also see more races at Cup as he, Hill, and Stephen Leicht continue running Xfinity races for the team.
Over a two-day period, Chris Buescher drove the NASCAR Cup Series’ future Next Gen car at Daytona in the 2022-bound car’s first superspeedway test.
Columbia, DoorDash, Dr Pepper, McDonald’s, and Root Insurance have followed Bubba Wallace to the new 23XI Racing, where they will serve as the team’s founding partners and sponsors of his #23 car.
Corey LaJoie signs multi-year deal with Spire Motorsports beginning with 2021 NASCAR Cup Series
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Corey LaJoie has signed a multi-year contract with Spire Motorsports to drive the #7 beginning in 2021.
