JR Motorsports will enter a automobile within the Daytona 500 for Justin Allgaier, marking the primary time that the group has fielded a Cup automobile in a NASCAR race. The Related Press first reported the information.
It is available in a race that JR Motorsports proprietor Dale Earnhardt Jr. twice gained as a driver (2004 and 2014).
Allgaier’s automobile can be sponsored by 10-time Grammy winner Chris Stapleton’s Traveller Whiskey model. The automobile can be No. 40. Greg Ives would be the crew chief.
The Xfinity crew is owned Earnhardt, sister Kelley Earnhardt Miller and Rick Hendrick. Earnhardt has talked about increasing into the Cup Sequence however the crew has not bought a constitution.
“It is nonetheless sinking in,” Earnhardt stated Wednesday of getting a automobile vie for a spot within the Daytona 500. “I did inform Kelley that I wished to be current for all of the moments. … I need to be concerned or at the least a witness to the whole lot.
“I’ll be on pit street when the automobile is pushed out for qualifying. I will be there when it is going out for observe. I will be there after they unload it on Wednesday on the race monitor. I need to undergo tech. I need to see the whole lot.
“I do not know what’s practical as a result of there can be another obligations, however I am approaching this prefer it’s a one and solely alternative, a dream come true.”
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The Daytona 500 is scheduled for Feb. 16 at Daytona Worldwide Speedway. Allgaier, the reigning Xfinity Sequence champion, should qualify for the Daytona 500 for the reason that crew doesn’t have a constitution.
Allgaier has 82 profession Cup begins. He ran one Cup race final 12 months, filling in for Kyle Larson within the Coca-Cola 600 whereas Larson competed within the Indianapolis 500.
JR Motorsports made its debut in 2005 with one Xfinity race. It has run the complete Xfinity schedule since 2006, profitable collection titles with Chase Elliott (2014), William Byron (2017), Tyler Reddick (2018) and Justin Allgaier (2024).
JR Motorsports’ full-time Xfinity groups for 2025 can be Carson Kvapil, Sammy Smith, Connor Zilisch and Allgaier.
