NASCAR Cup Series: 2018 KC Masterpiece 400 at Kansas entry list
By Asher Fair
The 12th race of the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series season is the KC Masterpiece 400 at Kansas Speedway. Here is the entry list for the race.
The KC Masterpiece 400 is scheduled to take place this Saturday night at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. It is the 12th of 36 races on the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series schedule, meaning it marks the one-third mark of the season.
Saturday night’s race is scheduled for 267 laps (400.5 miles) around the four-turn, 1.5-mile tri-oval. It is the fourth of 11 races this season that are set to take place on a 1.5-mile oval, and it is the first of such races since the race at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday, April 8.
A total of 39 drivers are entered into the KC Masterpiece 400, although one of those drivers, the driver of the #51 Ford for Rick Ware Racing, has still not yet officially been named. Only three other races so far this season have featured 39 or more drivers.
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The only two races that have featured more than 39 drivers so far this season were the restrictor plate races at Daytona International Speedway to open up the season and at Talladega Superspeedway just over one week ago. The other race that featured 39 drivers was at Bristol Motor Speedway several weeks ago.
While the field size of 39 is large compared to what the field size has been in other races so far this season, this is the first time ever that a Cup Series race at Kansas has not had a full field. From the 2001 season to the 2015 season, all 20 of the races at the track featured 43 drivers.
Since the field limit decreased to 40 drivers in the 2016 season, there have been 40 drivers in each of the four races at Kansas. The driver total is set to be an all-time low for a Cup Series race at Kansas since the series started coming to the track back in the 2001 season.
Here is the full entry list for the 2018 KC Masterpiece 400 at Kansas Speedway.
| Rank | Driver | Car, Team, Manufacturer |
| 1 | Landon Cassill | #00, StarCom Racing, Chevrolet |
| 2 | Jamie McMurray | #1, Chip Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet |
| 3 | Brad Keselowski | #2, Team Penske, Ford |
| 4 | Austin Dillon | #3, Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet |
| 5 | Kevin Harvick | #4, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford |
| 6 | Matt Kenseth | #6, Roush Fenway Racing, Ford |
| 7 | Chase Elliott | #9, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet |
| 8 | Aric Almirola | #10, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford |
| 9 | Denny Hamlin | #11, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota |
| 10 | Ryan Blaney | #12, Team Penske, Ford |
| 11 | Ty Dillon | #13, Germain Racing, Chevrolet |
| 12 | Clint Bowyer | #14, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford |
| 13 | Ross Chastain | #15, Premium Motorsports, Chevrolet |
| 14 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr. | #17, Roush Fenway Racing, Ford |
| 15 | Kyle Busch | #18, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota |
| 16 | Daniel Suarez | #19, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota |
| 17 | Erik Jones | #20, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota |
| 18 | Paul Menard | #21, Wood Brothers Racing, Ford |
| 19 | Joey Logano | #22, Team Penske, Ford |
| 20 | Gray Gaulding | #23, BK Racing, Toyota |
| 21 | William Byron | #24, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet |
| 22 | Ryan Newman | #31, Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet |
| 23 | Matt DiBenedetto | #32, Go Fas Racing, Ford |
| 24 | Michael McDowell | #34, Front Row Motorsports, Ford |
| 25 | Chris Buescher | #37, JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet |
| 26 | David Ragan | #38, Front Row Motorsports, Ford |
| 27 | Kurt Busch | #41, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford |
| 28 | Kyle Larson | #42, Chip Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet |
| 29 | Darrell Wallace Jr. | #43, Richard Petty Motorsports, Chevrolet |
| 30 | A.J. Allmendinger | #47, JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet |
| 31 | Jimmie Johnson | #48, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet |
| 32 | TBD | #51, Rick Ware Racing, Chevrolet |
| 33 | Reed Sorenson | #55, Premium Motorsports, Chevrolet |
| 34 | Timmy Hill | #66, MBM Motorsports, Toyota |
| 35 | Corey Lajoie | #72, TriStar Motorsports, Chevrolet |
| 36 | Martin Truex Jr. | #78, Furniture Row Racing, Toyota |
| 37 | Alex Bowman | #88, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet |
| 38 | Kasey Kahne | #95, Leavine Family Racing, Chevrolet |
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Be sure to tune in to Fox Sports 1 at 8:00 pm ET on the evening of Saturday, May 12 to watch the live broadcast of the 2018 KC Masterpiece 400 from Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas.