JR Motorsports is making an attempt a NASCAR Cup Sequence race for the primary time.
The staff owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr. is coming into the 2025 Daytona 500 with Justin Allgaier behind the wheel. Allgaier received the 2024 Xfinity Sequence title and has pushed for JR Motorsports in NASCAR’s No. 2 collection since 2016.
The automobile shall be sponsored by musician Chris Stapleton’s whiskey model.
“We’ve been ready for the appropriate second for JR Motorsports,” Junior stated in a press release. “With Justin successful the Xfinity Sequence championship and Chris Stapleton’s plain star energy, the planets aligned for this excellent alternative to enter this 12 months’s Daytona 500.”
Allgaier has completed within the prime 5 within the Xfinity Sequence standings in every of the previous six seasons. His title in November was the primary of his profession.
JR Motorsports has been an Xfinity Sequence mainstay since launching in 2005. Nevertheless, the staff hasn’t tried to maneuver as much as the highest collection in NASCAR like many different Xfinity Sequence groups have completed previously 20 years. Junior retired from full-time NASCAR competitors on the finish of the 2017 season and has made a minimum of one Xfinity Sequence begin for the staff he co-owns together with his sister Kelley Earnhardt-Miller in each season since.
The staff’s Daytona 500 entry formally means there are greater than 40 vehicles making an attempt to be within the 40-car 2025 Daytona 500 discipline. The No. 40 automobile is the forty first confirmed entry with vehicles anticipated to be fielded for Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson. The No. 66 MBM Motorsports staff has stated that it’s coming into the race, however is now in want of a driver.
MBM stated Mike Wallace would drive its automobile, however inexplicably made the announcement earlier than Wallace was formally accepted by NASCAR. On Monday, the staff introduced that Wallace hadn’t been accepted by NASCAR. Wallace, 65, hasn’t competed in a nationwide collection NASCAR race on an oval since 2015.
Helio Castroneves is likely one of the drivers entered within the race and lately introduced by NASCAR. If Castroneves does not qualify for the five hundred on velocity by way of qualifying or by way of the Duel qualifying race, he’ll be added to the sector as a forty first automobile.
