NASCAR Cup Series: 2019 Brickyard 400 entry list
By Asher Fair
The field is set to be full for the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series regular season finale at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard.
All but one of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series regular season’s 26 races are behind us, and the 26th and final race before the four-round, 10-race playoffs commence is scheduled to take place this Sunday, September 8.
This race is the Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard, more commonly known as the Brickyard 400, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The field is set to be full for this race, as 40 drivers, including 33 full-time drivers and seven full-time drivers, are set to compete in it.
So far this season, five races have featured full fields of 40 drivers. The most recent race to feature 40 drivers was the race at Daytona International Speedway in early July.
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Of the 33 full-time drivers who are set to compete in this Sunday afternoon’s 160-lap race around the four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval in Speedway, Indiana, 32 have competed in each of the season’s first 25 races and 31 are eligible to score Cup Series points.
Premium Motorsports’ Ross Chastain is the only full-time driver who has not compete in every race so far this season, as he missed the June race in Michigan International Speedway. Chastain and StarCom Racing’s Landon Cassill are the only full-time drivers who are ineligible to score Cup Series points.
While the field is set to be full for this race, there will be no bumping, as the driver total on the entry list does not exceed the maximum capacity for the race. That said, it is still worth noting which of the seven part-time drivers are set to drive for chartered teams and which drivers are not.
Set to drive for chartered teams are Petty Ware Racing’s B.J. McLeod, Rick Ware Racing’s Garrett Smithley and Spire Motorsports’ Reed Sorenson. Set to drive for non-chartered teams are Premium Motorsports’ Ryan Sieg, Rick Ware Racing’s J.J. Yeley, Gaunt Brothers Racing’s Parker Kligerman and a separate Rick Ware Racing driver who has not yet been named.
Here is a list of the 40 drivers who are set to compete in the 2019 Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor 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 – 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 – Ryan Sieg – #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 – Garrett Smithley – #52, Rick Ware Racing, Ford
35 – TBA – #53, Rick Ware Racing, Ford
36 – J.J. Yeley – #54, Rick Ware Racing, Chevrolet
37 – Reed Sorenson – #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
The 2019 NASCAR Cup Series regular season finale is set to be broadcast live from Indianapolis Motor Speedway on NBC beginning at 2:00 p.m. ET this Sunday, September 8. Be sure to tune in to the Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard.