Along with the usual 36 full-time drivers and teams, there are four part-time entries filling out the field. Richard Childress Racing will enter the No. 33 Chevrolet as a third entry with Austin Hill. The Xfinity Series regular has four wins at Daytona in the lower two divisions.

The flipside, of course, is that North Wilkesboro will indeed be getting a points race, which is scheduled for July 19 – just two weeks after NASCAR returns to Chicagoland Speedway for the first time since 2019.

The 2026 NASCAR Cup Series schedule is expected to be similar to its 2025 iteration, but there will be a few significant changes.

The modern NASCAR championship format is a controversial one, all about unpredictability and creating shocking 'Game 7' moments, but how exactly does it work?

NASCAR believes 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports have no standing to claim they are suffering from not having charters this season, as they will qualify for all remaining races, and none of their drivers have left their race teams.

The odds for who will stand above the field as the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series champion have been updated following this past weekend’s race at Richmond. Austin Dillon shocked the world and drove his way to victory in Virginia,

NASCAR may ease limits on Cup drivers in Xfinity and Trucks by 2026, sparking debate over star power, young talent, and the sport’s future.

CONCORD, N.C. - In terms of the NASCAR Cup Series regular season, Saturday night's race at Daytona International Speedway will be a final hurrah. And while the 10-race sprint to a championship still looms on the other side, the Hendrick Motorsports contingent are hoping to close on a high note under the lights in Volusia County, Florida.

Byron’s first regular season title comes in his fifth season with Rudy Fugle as his Cup crew chief. They were together in 2016 when an 18-year-old Byron won seven races in his only full-time season in the Truck Series. They were reunited in 2021 in Cup when Byron was 23 years old.