NASCAR Cup Series: 2018 Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 entry list

The 20th race of the 36-race NASCAR Cup Series season is scheduled to take place this Sunday. Here is the entry list for the race.

Just seven races remain on the 26-race 2018 NASCAR Cup Series regular season schedule before the 10-race playoffs get underway and result in the crowning of the 2018 Cup Series champion.

With just seven different winners so far this season and three drivers having won 14 of the season’s first 19 races, the significance of winning a race in terms of qualifying for the playoffs over the course of the remaining seven races of the regular season is at an all-time high.

This weekend’s race is a short track race, meaning there is a great chance of a lot of bumping and banging and perhaps even a first-time winner in 2018. The Foxwoods Resort Casino is scheduled to last for 301 laps around the four-turn, 1.058-mile (1.703-kilometer) New Hampshire Motor Speedway oval in Loudon, New Hampshire.

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Just 37 drivers are on the entry list for the race, which is an all-time low for a race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Previously, the driver total of 39 drivers on the entry list was the all-time low for a race at the track, as 39 drivers entered both races there last season.

In the 44 races held at the track prior to last season dating all the way back to 1993, no fewer than 40 drivers had entered a race there.

So far this season, just five races have featured 37 or fewer drivers. Each of the last 12 races featured at least 38 drivers, so the Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 is set to be the first race since the seventh race of the season at Texas Motor Speedway to feature just 37 drivers. The only race that featured fewer than 37 drivers so far this season was the second race of the season at Atlanta Motor Speedway, which featured just 36.

All 30 of the full-time NASCAR Cup Series drivers who have not missed a race yet this season are scheduled to start in the Foxwoods Resort Casino 301. Here is a list of the seven non-full time drivers who are set to start in the race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

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Tune in to NBC Sports Network on Sunday, July 22 at 2:00 p.m. ET for the live broadcast of the 2018 Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.