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.
Live Fast Motorsports, a new NASCAR Cup Series team owned by Matt Tifft and B.J. McLeod, will field the #78 in 2021 for the latter.
Joe Gibbs Racing has switched around their crew chief/driver lineup for 2021, with Kyle Busch’s crew chief Adam Stevens joining Christopher Bell, while Busch will work with Ben Beshore. Jason Ratliff and Dave Rogers will move down to the Xfinity level, while Chris Gayle will lead the multi-driver #54 team.
Driver eligibility has been revealed for the 2021 Busch Clash on the Daytona road course, including former race winners, playoff drivers and stage winners in 2020, and Daytona 500 winners. 24 drivers are eligible to compete.
In the first of two tests this week, Kurt Busch and Martin Truex Jr. drove the new NASCAR Next Gen car around the Charlotte Roval.
After one season and then some, John Hunter Nemechek is parting ways with Front Row Motorsports for 2021.
Chase Elliott did not let starting last stop him as he climbed through the field to win the NASCAR Cup Series finale and his first championship.
