NASCAR Cup Series: 2019 Coca-Cola 600 entry list
By Asher Fair
A total of 40 drivers are set to compete in the 13th race on the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series schedule, the Coca-Cola 600, at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
The Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway marks the beginning of the second third of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series schedule, as it is the 13th race of the 36-race season. This race is scheduled to take place on Memorial Day Sunday, May 26 under the lights.
A total of 40 drivers are set to compete in this 400-lap race around the four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.414-kilometer) Charlotte Motor Speedway oval in Concord, North Carolina, the race that is 100 miles longer than any other race on the schedule.
So far this season, only three races have featured full fields of 40 drivers. However, two of the last three races have done so. After the season-opening Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway featured 40 drivers back in mid-February, the GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway and the Digital Ally 400 at Kansas Speedway also recently did so in late April and mid-May, respectively.
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Of the 40 drivers who are set to compete in this Sunday evening’s race, 31 are full-time drivers who are eligible to earn points in the Cup Series while two are full-time drivers who are ineligible to do so. The other seven drivers who are set to compete in this race are part-time drivers, and of these seven part-time drivers, three are set to drive for chartered teams while the other four are set to drive for non-chartered teams.
Petty Ware Racing’s Cody Ware, Rick Ware Racing’s Bayley Currey and Spire Motorsports’ Quin Houff are set to drive for chartered teams in this race while Premium Motorsports’ Reed Sorenson, Rick Ware Racing’s B.J. McLeod, MBM Motorsports’ Joey Gase and Gaunt Brothers Racing’s Parker Kligerman are set to drive for non-chartered teams.
That said, for this particular race, it does not matter whether these drivers drive for chartered teams or non-chartered teams as far as qualifying for the race is concerned. The maximum driver total for each race is 40 and therefore nobody will be bumped from the field with 40 drivers on the entry list for this one, so in this case, there is no advantage of driving for a chartered team.
Here is a list of the 40 drivers who are set to compete in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte 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, Ford
34 – Bayley Currey – #52, Rick Ware Racing, Chevrolet
35 – B.J. McLeod – #53, Rick Ware Racing, Chevrolet
36 – Joey Gase – #66, MBM Motorsports, Toyota
37 – Quin Houff – #77, Spire Motorsports, Chevrolet
38 – Alex Bowman – #88, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet
39 – Matt DiBenedetto – #95, Leavine Family Racing, Toyota
40 – Parker Kligerman – #96, Gaunt Brothers Racing, Toyota
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Be sure to tune in to Fox at 6:00 p.m. ET on Memorial Day Sunday, May 26 for the live broadcast of the longest race on the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series schedule, the Coca-Cola 600, from Charlotte Motor Speedway.