NASCAR Cup Series: 2019 Coke Zero Sugar 400 entry list
By Asher Fair
The field is set to be full for the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season’s 18th race, the Coke Zero Sugar 400, at Daytona International Speedway.
This Saturday night’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Daytona International Speedway, the Coke Zero Sugar 400, marks the halfway mark on the 2019 schedule, as it is the 36-race season’s 18th race.
A total of 40 drivers are set to compete in this 160-lap race around the four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) high-banked Daytona International Speedway oval in Daytona Beach, Florida, which is the second of two races at this track of the season.
The first of these two races was the 61st annual Daytona 500, which opened up the season back in mid-February. Daytona International Speedway is one of 13 tracks on the schedule that the Cup Series is scheduled to visit twice this year, and it is scheduled to host its second race of the season before any of the other 12 do so.
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Of the 40 drivers who are set to compete in this race, 32 are full-time drivers while 31 are full-time drivers who are eligible to score points in the Cup Series. StarCom Racing’s Landon Cassill is the lone full-time driver who is set to compete in this race but will not be eligible to score points in it.
The other eight drivers who are set to compete in this race are part-time drivers, and of these eight part time drivers, four are set to drive for chartered teams while four are set to drive for non-chartered teams.
Premium Motorsports’ Garrett Smithley, Petty Ware Racing’s B.J. McLeod, Rick Ware Racing’s J.J. Yeley and Spire Motorsports’ Justin Haley are set to drive for chartered teams while Premium Motorsports’ Reed Sorenson, Rick Ware Racing’s Joey Gase, Beard Motorsports’ Brendan Gaughan and Gaunt Brothers Racing’s Parker Kligerman are set to drive for non-chartered teams.
Driving for a chartered team or a non-chartered team will not make a difference in terms of qualifying for this particular race since there are 40 drivers on the entry list, which is the maximum number of drivers allowed to compete in each race, and therefore nobody will be bumped out of the field.
Here is a list of the 40 drivers who are set to compete in the 2019 Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
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 – Garrett Smithley – #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 – B.J. McLeod – #51, Petty Ware Racing, Ford
34 – J.J. Yeley – #52, Rick Ware Racing, Ford
35 – Joey Gase – #53, Rick Ware Racing, Chevrolet
36 – Brendan Gaughan – #62, Beard Motorsports, Chevrolet
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
Tune in to NBC at 7:30 p.m. ET this Saturday, July 6 for the live broadcast of the Coke Zero Sugar 400 from Daytona International Speedway to see which drivers will enter the second half of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series coming off solid results and which will enter the second half of the season looking to get back on the right track.