Even though the past several seasons have seen rapid and enormous change throughout the sport, the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season presents arguably the most significant change of all. Martin Truex Jr. will return to Joe Gibbs Racing despite having been the subject of retirement rumors midway through last year. #31 - Justin Haley - Kaulig Racing Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Trent Owens). Rick Ware Racing is keeping things in the family with their No. Here is a complete look at the driver and team landscape for the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series season: #1 - Ross Chastain - Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Phil Surgen). This might be a revolutionary idea in NASCAR, but in other motorsports like F1 and IndyCar, a single lug nut wheel has been the norm for years. Joe Gibbs Racing is shaking up the lineup for the remainder of the 2022 Cup Series playoffs. #2 - Austin Cindric - Team Penske Ford (Crew Chief: Jeremy Bullins). 77. Erik Jones returns as the driver of The King's No. The No. It will be too soon to gauge their success in 2022 and probably for the first half of the 2023 season. 12 Team Penske crew | Ryan Blaney Crew chief: Todd Gordon Average four-tire stop: 13.896 seconds 5 of 11 Chris Graythen | Getty Images 7. The lead changed hands a total of 31 times among 13 different drivers, with the yellow flag flying 18 times for everything from spins while battling for the lead to a car upside down and rolling over. Top-10 timings revealed. Biffle will attempt to qualify for the Daytona 500, and may run other races as well. Blaney earned three wins and finished seventh in the standings in 2021, and it wouldnt be surprising to see him match or better that in his first year with Hassler, who replaced the retiring Todd Gordon. Along with the Next Gen car, NASCAR is also introducing a new pit gun in 2022. The NASCAR pit crew, they're the true unsung heroes of the sport. No. McLeod once again fielding a full-time team. #45 - Kurt Busch - 23XI Racing Toyota (Crew Chief: Billy Scott). Please logout and login again. Harris, a longtime car chief for Martin Truex Jr., brings a wealth of car and mechanic experience at a time when most organizations look for engineers to call the shots. motorsports for better part of the decade. Bell also tied for the most poles with three, a clear testament to the speed of his cars and the work done throughout the week and at the racetrack by Stevens and his crew. #7 - Corey LaJoie - Spire Motorsports Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Ryan Sparks). Beard Motorsports, which has fielded cars at Daytona and Talladega over the past several years, will return in 2022 despite the death of car owner Mark Beard last January. FOX Sports NASCAR Writer DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Austin Cindric's victory in the 2022 Daytona 500 has its roots in the 2021 finish. #6 - Brad Keselowski - RFK Racing Ford (Crew Chief: Matt McCall). While both have shown that they are capable, they havent enjoyed consistent success at the Cup level thus far. Hillman is going to work with the Rick Ware Racing Xfinity team this year, and Plourde, who had worked with the teams No. #9 - Chase Elliott - Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Alan Gustafson). While Brad Keselowski's arrival signals major changes at RFK Racing, Chris Buescher remains the driver of the team's No. 16 team will look for more speed and luck next time out in Las Vegas. Ryan Preece returns to the Cup Series full-time in 2023 as the new driver of Stewart-Haas' No. Few things in racing are more dramatic than when the two leaders crash while racing for the win in the final corner. Bob Pockrass has spent decades covering motorsports, including the past 30 Daytona 500s. Ross Chastain returns to Trackhouse Racing after a breakout 2022 season that saw him win twice, ascend to superstardom, and produce one of the great highlights in the history of NASCAR on his way to a second-place finish in the championship standings. 23 car barred him from a better finish. 19 team will look to clean it up after a rocky race. 2022 will mark M&M's final season as Busch's primary sponsor, as they will leave NASCAR at season's end. 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Team Rosters | TobyChristie.com 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Team Rosters Select a team from below to view their team rosters for the entire 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season. Reddick sits 38th in the point standings with only four points through two races. As his other contenders had to play catchup, Logano set the pace all day in his season's ultimate tour de force, eventually driving off into the sunset to win his second Cup Series title with one of the finest races any driver drove in 2022. Bad luck hurt them at times, but pit-road performance was always. Andujar will jump right into action as the starting right fielder and No. Reddick had a breakout season in 2023, winning three times at Richard Childress Racing. Winning an elimination race when doing so is your only option of advancing through the NASCAR playoffs has been done before. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Netherlands-based Hezeberg Systems has formed an alliance with Reaume Brothers Racing to field a Cup car in select races in 2022. On the final restart with three laps to go, it was LaJoie in the lead and looking to score what would have been a stunning upset -- one that came a Chase Elliott block away from happening on the final lap. 38 team will feature a rookie driver for the third year in a row, as Todd Gilliland moves up from the Camping World Truck Series to take the wheel. Veteran crew chief Todd Gordon will join Johnson in coming out of retirement for select races, starting with the Daytona 500. Byron has shown decent speed through the first two races and will look to turn it around next weekend. 6 team has been pretty solid to start the 2023 season as consistency will be key. So, whatever is gained on the putting on new rubber will be insignificant because of filling in more juice. 2) Reddick spent the majority of the West Coast Swing at or near the front of the field. This will be the 18th full season for Truex, who turns 43 in June. The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user. As one can imagine, NASCAR fans didnt have the most welcoming reception for the new pit guns on Twitter. Subscribe to our exclusive email newsletter, the TC Daily Pit Stop, and have the latest NASCAR news sent straight to your inbox every morning! After winning Cup Series Rookie of the Year honors in 2020, the sophomore slump hit Cole Custer like a load of bricks in 2021. 10 team will look for a solid top-15 finish in Las Vegas to turn the ship back around. #27 - Loris Hezemans and Jacques Villeneuve - Team Hezeberg Ford. Despite a 10th-place finish, the defending NASCAR Cup Series champion is still on top as the sport readies itself for Las Vegas. With the debut of the Next Gen car setting the standard for what a stock car now is and will be into the future, the 2022 season is expected to be one that moves NASCAR forward and sets the standard for a new era of car and driver. A pitstop is required if the race car cannot carry all the fuel load required to last the entire race distance. 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Corey LaJoie statistically had the speed of a car just outside of the top 10 positions and it showed with a 14th-place finish. #8 - Kyle Busch - Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Randall Burnett). 42 - Noah Gragson - LEGACY Motor Club No. The hire of Gilliland keeps things all in the family, as his father David Gilliland drove the No. With his second Cup Series title now in hand, Joey Logano will seek to become the only active full-time driver to win a third Cup title in 2023. The No. 51 Ford, as Cody Ware will serve as the team's driver for the second-straight season. After driving for Petty GMS in 2022, Ty Dillon moves to Spire Motorsports as the new driver of the team's No. Denny Hamlin will continue to drive the No. They were in a dead heat coming out. Corey LaJoie returns for a third season as the flagship driver for Spire Motorsports. Buescher and Graves won an Xfinity Series title together in 2015, and then Graves won another with Daniel Suarez in 2016. 2 of 11 Jonathan Ferrey | Getty Images 10. 42 to the newly-numbered Trackhouse Racing No. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Commissioner.com is a registered trademark of CBS Interactive Inc. site: media | arena: nascar | pageType: stories | 34 team, takes over as this team's crew chief. Jerry Kelley is now listed as Ware's crew chief. #3 - Austin Dillon - Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Justin Alexander). #78 - BJ McLeod and Josh Bilicki - Live Fast Motorsports Chevrolet (Crew Chief: David Ingram). #20 - Christopher Bell - Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota (Crew Chief: Adam Stevens). 1 through 42. Martin Truex Jr. will compete in his fourth season at Joe Gibbs Racing, and looks to win his second Cup title after multiple missed opportunities. #44 - Greg Biffle - NY Racing Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Jay Guy). 43 has had in recent memory, Erik Jones returns in 2023. In my opinion, this pit gun takes away part of the excitement & skill from the pitstop. 16 in 2023, despite having been the subject of retirement rumors, as the new driver of Stewart-Haas' No. #18 - Kyle Busch - Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota (Crew Chief: Ben Beshore). Gilliland is a rookie, going straight from trucks to Cup and joining the Front Row No. #43 - Erik Jones - Legacy Motor Club Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Dave Elenz). Two top-10 and one 11th-place finish moved Elliott from 19 th to the top spot by the fifth race. After winning three races in 2021, Ryan Blaney has a new crew chief for 2022: Following the retirement of Todd Gordon, Jonathan Hassler moves from Wood Brothers Racing to Team Penske to assume the top of the pit box for Blaney's No. 77 - Josh Bilicki and Landon Cassill - Spire Motorsports Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Kevin Bellicourt). Tyler Reddick (Last week: No. 1. Chris Buescher was running outside of the top 30 spots at one point but managed to claw his way to a 13th-place finish. #24 - William Byron - Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Rudy Fugle). 6-keys: media/spln/nascar/reg/free/stories, at They wont need any time to learn about each other, but they will need some time as they build a team from the ground up at an organization in its second season. Keselowski will look to end that run in Sunday's 500-mile race at Talladega, a track where he has won six times, making him the leading winner among active drivers at the 2.66-mile speedway . Graves was with Roush driver Ryan Newman the past three years, until a change was made for the final five races, when he worked with Buescher. Photo Credit: LAT Images, Gavin Baker, Courtesy of Toyota Racing. 20 team will look to shake it off and bounce back next week. My car has 5 lugs per wheel how is this like whats at the dealer? Take one of the best drivers and one of the best crew chiefs, and they should perform well. 26 Toyota needed to qualify 31st or better on speed to make the show. Chase Briscoe has gone through two difficult races to start the new year. #10 - Aric Almirola - Stewart-Haas Racing Ford (Crew Chief: Drew Blickensderfer). The third-generation racer has two career wins in Trucks and finished seventh in the series standings last year. Running 10th entering the final corner at Martinsville in October, there was seemingly nothing Ross Chastain could conceivably do to make up the points deficit to Denny Hamlin and make the Championship 4 in Phoenix. NASCAR pit crew are the true unsung heroes of the sport. The Money Team Racing, co-owned by Floyd Mayweather, has hired IndyCar driver Conor Daly for the 2023 season. William Byron had a strong start to 2022 with two wins in the first eight races, but that early success would later dissipate despite Byron going on to finish a career-best sixth in the championship standings. Christopher Bell (No. After running IndyCar over the past two years, Jimmie Johnson returns to the Cup Series on a part-time basis while also serving as the new co-owner of Legacy Motor Club. Truex has been the championship runner-up three out of the last four seasons, including a narrow loss to Kyle Larson in last year's season finale. Allmendinger, Daniel Hemric, and Noah Gragson will all take turns behind the wheel. 18 car in the middle of the pit road, forcing NASCAR to wave a caution flag. Todd Gilliland returns for his second Cup season, but he will not drive the No. Chris Gayle follows Gibbs up from the Xfinity Series to guide his Rookie of the Year bid. Buescher broke a six-year winless drought at Bristol in September while also earning a career-high three top-five and 10 top-10 finishes. Joey Hand will drive all six of the road course races. The Monterrey, Mexico driver and first foreign-born NASCAR champion scored four top 10 finishes and a single top 5, with the highlight of his season coming when he led 58 laps and finished fourth at Bristol (Dirt). NBC Sports NASCAR Power Rankings 1. 17 after scoring one top 5 and eight top 10 finishes in 2021 while leading a career-high 93 laps. After 15 years at Joe Gibbs Racing, Kyle Busch moves to Richard Childress Racing as the new driver of the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing team, seen here servicing Kyle Busch's car at Pocono Raceway, turned the fastest-ever four-tire pit stop at Richmond Raceway. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you. Austin Dillon will have a new crew chief for 2023, as Justin Alexander stepped down from his role atop the No. #51 - Cody Ware - Rick Ware Racing Ford (Crew Chief: Jerry Kelley). Dennis Johnson (@dentiki) November 18, 2021. 45 team desperately needs a finish next weekend. Gilliland will be pulled from the car for six races in favor of Zane Smith, who will drive at Phoenix in March, Talladega in April, the Coca-Cola 600, Sonoma, Texas, and the Charlotte Roval. 2022 NASCAR drivers and crew chiefs: Ranking the new pairings Published Feb. 14, 2022 9:45 a.m. Christopher Bell (4 career wins), 4. After becoming a championship contender in the Craftsman Truck Series, Chandler Smith will run multiple Cup races for Kaulig in addition to a full season in the Xfinity Series. After becoming co-owner of the newly-named Legacy Motor Club, Johnson will compete in select races this year behind the wheel of the team's No. All Rights Reserved. It seems as though NASCAR will have to be quick on their feet in order to make the best use of the new wheels, the new pit gun and the new car if theyre to fulfil the promise of a step-up in the Next Gen. The organization will swap the over-the-wall crews for Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch. 2. 2021 Daytona 500 winner Michael McDowell had the best season of his career in 2022, but it may have cost him crew chief Blake Harris, who departed for Hendrick Motorsports. Austin Dillon will have a new crew chief for 2023, as Justin Alexander stepped down from his role atop the No. Dave Elenz continues as his crew chief. An 18th-place finish at Fontana didn't tell the whole story for Blaney, who earned 10 stage points and was in the top-10 all day. Team co-owner BJ McLeod is expected to continue to drive this car for most of the season. The No. The championship moment for @joeylogano and all of #TeamJL! Travis Peterson takes Harris' place atop the pit box for McDowell. With 46 career wins, Hamlin is second only to Junior Johnson among drivers never to win a Cup title on NASCAR's all-time wins list. He led 143 laps on the way to a . #23 - Bubba Wallace - 23XI Racing Toyota (Crew Chief: Bootie Barker). Which duos will work the best? The 2023 season is also set to see some notable part-time cameos, starting with the return of seven-time Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson. McDowell will have a new crew chief for 2022, as Blake Harris takes over for Drew Blickensderfer after his departure to Stewart-Haas Racing.
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