NASCAR Cup Series: 2019 Food City 500 entry list
By Asher Fair
The eighth race of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season, the Food City 500, at Bristol Motor Speedway is set to feature 38 drivers.
Bristol Motor Speedway is scheduled to host the eighth of 36 races on the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series schedule, the Food City 500, this Sunday, April 7. This race is scheduled to take place one week earlier than it did last year due to the fact that Easter is three weeks later this year than it was last year.
This race is the first of two races scheduled to take place at the four-turn, 0.533-mile (0.858-kilometer) high-banked Bristol Motor Speedway oval in Bristol, Tennessee this season. The other scheduled race at the track this year is the track’s annual night race, which scheduled to take place in mid-August.
A total of 38 drivers are set to compete in this Sunday’s 500-lap race at the track. The driver total of 38 on this entry list is tied for the third highest driver total on an entry list through the first eight races of the 2019 season.
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A total of 38 drivers also competed in the races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Auto Club Speedway.
The only two races to feature more than 38 drivers so far this season are the season opener, the Daytona 500, at Daytona International Speedway and the race at Texas Motor Speedway. These races featured 40 drivers and 39 drivers, respectively.
Two races, the races at ISM Raceway and Martinsville Speedway, featured a season-low 36 drivers so far this season while another one, the race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, featured 37 drivers.
Of the 38 drivers who are set to compete in this Sunday’s race, 34 have competed in each of the first seven races of the 2019 season. Of these 34 drivers, 32 are full-time drivers who are eligible two score points in the Cup Series.
One of the other two drivers, Ross Chastain, is a full-time Cup Series driver but is ineligible to score points in the Cup Series as a result of the fact that he also drives full-time in the Xfinity Series. The other driver, Cody Ware, is a part-time driver.
The four drivers who are set to compete in this Sunday’s race having missed at least one of the season’s first seven races are Premium Motorsports’ Reed Sorenson, Rick Ware Racing rookie Bayley Currey, MBM Motorsports’ Joey Gase and Spire Motorsports rookie Quin Houff.
Sorenson and Gase are the only two drivers who are set to drive for non-chartered teams in this race, although the significance of this is minimal given the fact that the entry list does not contain more than 40 drivers and therefore nobody will be bumped from the field.
Here is a list of the 38 drivers who are set to compete in the 2019 Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.
NOTE: Part-time drivers are listed in italics.
Rank – Driver – Car, Team, Manufacturer
1 – Landon Cassill – #00, StarCom Racing, Chevrolet
2 – Kurt Busch – #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 – Ryan Newman – #6, Roush Fenway Racing, Ford
7 – Daniel Hemric – #8, Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet
8 – Chase Elliott – #9, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet
9 – Aric Almirola – #10, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford
10 – Denny Hamlin – #11, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota
11 – Ryan Blaney – #12, Team Penske, Ford
12 – Ty Dillon – #13, Germain Racing, Chevrolet
13 – Clint Bowyer – #14, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford
14 – Ross Chastain – #15, Premium Motorsports, Chevrolet
15 – Ricky Stenhouse Jr. – #17, Roush Fenway Racing, Ford
16 – Kyle Busch – #18, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota
17 – Martin Truex Jr. – #19, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota
18 – Erik Jones – #20, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota
19 – Paul Menard – #21, Wood Brothers Racing, Ford
20 – Joey Logano – #22, Team Penske, Ford
21 – William Byron – #24, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet
22 – Reed Sorenson – #27, Premium Motorsports, Chevrolet
23 – Corey LaJoie – #32, Go Fas Racing, Ford
24 – Michael McDowell – #34, Front Row Motorsports, Ford
25 – Matt Tifft – #36, Front Row Motorsports, Ford
26 – Chris Buescher – #37, JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet
27 – David Ragan – #38, Front Row Motorsports, Ford
28 – Daniel Suarez – #41, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford
29 – Kyle Larson – #42, Chip Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet
30 – Darrell Wallace Jr. – #43, Richard Petty Motorsports, Chevrolet
31 – Ryan Preece – #47, JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet
32 – Jimmie Johnson – #48, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet
33 – Cody Ware – #51, Petty Ware Racing, Chevrolet
34 – Bayley Currey – #52, Rick Ware Racing, Chevrolet
35 – Joey Gase – #66, MBM Motorsports, Toyota
36 – Quin Houff – #77, Spire Motorsports, Chevrolet
37 – Alex Bowman – #88, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet
38 – Matt DiBenedetto – #95, Leavine Family Racing, Toyota
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Fox Sports 1 is set to air the live broadcast of the Food City 500 from Bristol Motor Speedway beginning at 2:00 p.m. ET this Sunday, April 7, so be sure not to miss the eighth race of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season.