48 team at the end of 2022. Gilliland is a rookie, going straight from trucks to Cup and joining the Front Row No. It came down to the final lap! #91 - TBD - Trackhouse Racing Project91 Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Darian Grubb). Daniel Suarez will return to Trackhouse Racing in 2022 after helping significantly in laying the team's foundation in 2021. Corey LaJoie statistically had the speed of a car just outside of the top 10 positions and it showed with a 14th-place finish. Kevin Harvick. After many years of a 400-lap slog featuring long intervals in action, this year's Coke 600 was action-packed from virtually start to finish. Tyler Reddick (Last week: No. Austin Dillon returns as the driver of RCR's iconic No. (Source - NASCAR.com) 1. 6 team has been pretty solid to start the 2023 season as consistency will be key. 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. Veteran crew chief Adam Stevens played a large role in that run, and the two are paired together again for 2023. Todd Gilliland told CBS Sports that he will run this car in five of the six races where he does not drive the No. Longtime independent car owner Carl Long will once again field a part-time Cup team to complement a fleet of Xfinity Series teams. 34 team of Chris Buescher This crew has gotten no. And the new pit guns also cause a different sound when in use, which may not be a functional factor, but it is a factor in the overall experience for NASCAR enthusiasts. Hezeberg offered the Cup Series some international flair, as its drivers included former Formula 1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve, Dutch driver Loris Hezemans and Russian driver Daniil Kvyat. Cindric, the 2020 Xfinity Series champion and 2021 runner-up, moves full-time to the Cup Series to replace Keselowski. #41 - Ryan Preece - Stewart-Haas Racing Ford (Crew Chief: Chad Johnston). Allmendinger, Daniel Hemric, and Noah Gragson will all take turns behind the wheel. Jeremy Bullins will continue to serve as his crew chief. 43 has had in recent memory, Erik Jones returns in 2023. #22 - Joey Logano - Team Penske Ford (Crew Chief: Paul Wolfe). Use of this website (including any and all parts and components) constitutes your acceptance of these, Daniel Hemric, Noah Gragson, Todd Gilliland look forward to Cup races. NASCAR's diamond anniversary will serve as the second year of the sport's Next Gen era, which will be faced with a tall task in trying to match a first season that saw a record-tying 19 different drivers visit Victory Lane in 36 races. Sometimes "Character" shouldn't be sacrificed for progress. MBM Motorsports fielded Cup cars in select races early in the 2022 season, but the Carl Long-owned team would eventually focus on its Xfinity Series program. How does the new air gun work on the #NextGen car? 23XI Racing expands from one to two cars in 2022, with Kurt Busch -- the longest-tenured Cup driver -- taking the wheel of the new No. Related: NASCAR schedule during the 2023 season. Veteran crew chief Todd Gordon will join Johnson in coming out of retirement for select races, starting with the Daytona 500. Tyler Reddick moves to 23XI Racing a year earlier than previously announced as the replacement for Kurt Busch, whose full-time Cup career came to an end last season as the result of a concussion suffered in a crash at Pocono. 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. 2 last week) Bell is the only driver to finish in the top five in all three races in the first round. Home; File. Without further ado, here are Sportsnauts NASCAR power rankings as we push forward in the 2023 campaign. Who is the fastest NASCAR Pit Crew of 2022? Andujar will jump right into action as the starting right fielder and No. Buescher and Graves won an Xfinity Series title together in 2015, and then Graves won another with Daniel Suarez in 2016. Once they get the equipment and the infrastructure at RFK the way they want it, they will contend. Austin Dillon has been a pleasant surprise to start the 2023 season as he could have won the Daytona 500 and finished in ninth place this weekend. Action sports star Travis Pastrana will try to add the Daytona 500 to his NASCAR resume, as he will attempt to qualify in a third car for 23XI Racing. Based on the results of this season, Stevens has done just that. Stuffs happening, really quick. 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. 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. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. returns for a fourth season at JTG Daugherty after signing a multi-year contract extension midway through last year. #62 - Austin Hill - Beard Oil Racing Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Darren Shaw). The next step for Byron will be to win multiple races in a season, as he was the only Hendrick driver to not do so in 2021. #44 - Greg Biffle - NY Racing Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Jay Guy). 41 also has a new crew chief, with veteran Chad Johnston serving those duties. Front Row's No. Joey Hand will drive all six of the road course races. Thats a tricky question because what might be best for 2022 could be different from what's best for the long term. Hill will run both Daytona and Talladega races as well as Chicago and Michigan. Still works for NASCAR.com and Motor Racing Network and became a pit reporter for NASCAR on NBC in 2022. #5 - Kyle Larson - Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Cliff Daniels). #2 - Austin Cindric (R) - Team Penske Ford (Crew Chief: Jeremy Bullins). After wrecking in the Daytona 500, Briscoe really struggled to find any speed until the second half of the race where he finished in 20th place. To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. @JamieLittleTV talks with James Houk of @PettyGMS about the issue at Kansas. Along with the Next Gen car, NASCAR is also introducing a new pit gun in 2022. Biffle will attempt to qualify for the Daytona 500, and may run other races as well. Chastain showed major flashes in 2021 and flirted with scoring his first career victory on several occasions, with his best finish being a second-place run at Nashville. 14. 62, which focuses on what has become a strong superspeedway program. Pit Viper Eyewear SEGI TV Bitnile.com: Barker had been working in the 23XI Racing shop and is well respected in the garage. Related: Travis Pastrana to run the 2023 Daytona 500 with 23XI Racing. 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. LaJoie has not shown a tremendous amount of past speed with Spire Motorsports so ranking as the 27th-best driver should be an accomplishment for now. NASCAR Cup Series 2022 Schedule Pennzoil 400 Pit Stop Results Pit Stop Results NASCARCup Series Pennzoil 400 Las Vegas Motor Speedway March 6th, 2022 Race #3 of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Season Previous Race Pennzoil 400 Next Race Race Results Summary Statistics Their only limitation is Cindrics lack of experience in a Cup car. Bad luck hurt them at times, but pit-road performance was always. #3 - Austin Dillon - Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Keith Rodden). Hassler got a half-season of experience last year as crew chief for Matt DiBenedetto and earned positive reviews. #15 - J.J. Yeley, Riley Herbst and Todd Gilliland - Rick Ware Racing Ford (Crew Chief: Billy Plourde). #7 - Corey LaJoie - Spire Motorsports Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Ryan Sparks). Oh well. In many of the season's top moments or greatest conflicts, Chastain was a central character. #43 - Erik Jones - Petty GMS Motorsports Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Dave Elenz). 11 since his rookie year in 2006. 2 of 11 Jonathan Ferrey | Getty Images 10. Chris Buescher was running outside of the top 30 spots at one point but managed to claw his way to a 13th-place finish. #42 - Noah Gragson (R) - Legacy Motor Club Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Luke Lambert). Elliott has signed a contract extension through 2027 . But more than bringing on a celebrity co-owner in Pitbull and buying Chip Ganassi Racing's entire NASCAR operation, Trackhouse has become a force in NASCAR through what it accomplished on the racetrack in 2022. Subscribe to our exclusive email newsletter, the TC Daily Pit Stop, and have the latest NASCAR news sent straight to your inbox every morning! For the longest time, the balance of power among NASCAR race teams has amounted to an oligarchy of powerhouse race shops that have gone almost entirely unchallenged -- until now. #9 - Chase Elliott - Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Alan Gustafson). The handing out of the awards on record is the jurisdiction of NASCAR as well as the awards' presenting sponsors, but that doesn't mean we can't hand out some awards of our own. 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. But in only his second season running all 36 Cup Series races, Chastain performed at a level that even his fiercest advocates may not have expected him to. Ty Gibbs put in a solid performance with a 16th-place finish at a track he never has driven in the NASCAR Cup Series. 38 car for the entire 2023 campaign. Journalism from Amity University, he has been a passionate follower of 2023 NASCAR Cup Series ROTY Contenders No. As the sport's longtime owners begin to age, new team owners have begun to expand their operations and make their presence felt as potential big-time players moving forward. 34 team. After winning the Southern 500 and having one of the best seasons a driver of the Petty No. 54 - Ty Gibbs - Joe Gibbs Racing CHARTERED ENTRIES NOTE: The 36 teams listed as 'Chartered Entries' below, are those who are currently announced to have charters for the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series season. Busch left his bright yellow No. In the 14 years pit crew coach Ray Wright has been at Richard Childress Racing, he's seen NASCAR cut the over-the-wall pit crew from seven to six and then to five people. Let's find out. J.J. Yeley will run the Busch Light Clash, while Riley Herbst will run the Daytona 500 behind the wheel of this car. Of Keselowski's six top-10 finishes last season, three came in the final 10 races. The younger of the Dillon brothers offers a steadying presence, as the No. 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. This pairing could produce results in a few years, but the 21-year-old Haley is still learning the craft. @RCRracing tire changer @_JThom4s explains. #12 - Ryan Blaney - Team Penske Ford (Crew Chief: Jonathan Hassler). 1 through 42. 3CHI will be the top sponsor for the team in 2022. Allmendinger has two career Cup wins including last year at Indy, while Hemric was the 2019 Cup Series Rookie of the Year before winning last year's Xfinity Series Championship. #24 - William Byron - Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Rudy Fugle). 1. 47 team will look to string another solid performance along as the Daytona high wears off. #99 - Daniel Suarez - Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Travis Mack). During the recent testing of the Next Gen car, Richard Childress Racing tire changer explained the new guns are certainly heavier than the previous ones. 26 Toyota needed to qualify 31st or better on speed to make the show. 2022 was a breakout year for Christopher Bell, as he earned three victories including two clutch performances in playoff-elimination races that allowed him to make it all the way to the Championship 4 before earning a third-place finish in the final standings. The annual awards banquet will see the sport's top drivers not only be recognized, but also earn some additional recognitions and titles for their performance from the start of February to the end of the season in November. 19 team will look to clean it up after a rocky race. Drew Blickensderfer will be his crew chief for the second year in a row. NASCAR is losing its character. Larson won just three races in all of 2022, but showed some flashes of rediscovering his 2021 dominance toward the season's end. Cindric ran seven Cup races in 2021, earning a best finish of 9th at Indianapolis. Ross Chastain appeared to be the car to beat as he won Stage 1 and Stage 2; however, Busch was the best car in the Final Stage and cleared him before pit stops were underway. 2. After 15 years at Joe Gibbs Racing, Kyle Busch moves to Richard Childress Racing as the new driver of the 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 | Almirola gets a new crew chief for his farewell tour, as Drew Blickensderfer joins Stewart-Haas Racing after winning his second Daytona 500 at Front Row Motorsports. 2 of 11 Jared C. Tilton | Getty Images 10. After initially announcing that the 2022 season would be his last as a full-time driver, Aric Almirola backtracked on those plans midseason and signed a multi-year deal to continue driving for Stewart-Haas Racing. Harris hired a car chief, but he is pretty much doing the job with the previous crew, which won the Daytona 500 with McDowell and was much improved in 2021. #45 - Kurt Busch - 23XI Racing Toyota (Crew Chief: Billy Scott). After Seth Barbour's promotion to Front Row Motorsports technical director. While many would attribute the decision of a single lug nut to increase the pit stop time, but its to accommodate the new larger aluminium wheels that five lug nuts simply wouldnt work in. section: | slug: nascar-awards-driver-of-the-year-best-finish-more-honors-for-the-top-moments-of-the-2022-season | sport: nascar | route: article_single.us | Busch joined the organization from Chip Ganassi Racing, and Scott was most recently at Richard Childress Racing. 10-1 February 3, 2022 Frontstretch Staff It's the final day of Frontstretch 's 2022 NASCAR Preseason Power Rankings, where we're counting. so they will be able to water flowers AND change tires? Brad Keselowski enters his second season as driver and co-owner of RFK Racing after a strong finish to 2022. Every power tool imaginable then came out, as the Petty GMS crew eventually ended up cutting the wheel off entirely with a sawzall blade -- ruining the team's race, but getting Jones back on track and earning themselves quite a few attaboys among those who work in the pits. Select a team from below to view their team rosters for the entire 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season. Few things in racing are more dramatic than when the two leaders crash while racing for the win in the final corner. After competing on a part-time basis in 2022, Team Hezeberg has yet to announce specific plans for 2023. Dillon has shown speed and could find himself in contention for a victory sometime this year. #6 - Brad Keselowski - RFK Racing Ford (Crew Chief: Matt McCall). Every single driver who competed for the championship had at least one finish inside the top 10. Christopher Bell returns for his second season at Joe Gibbs Racing and his third overall as a Cup driver. 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. 45 Toyota. 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Ware showed growth as a driver in a 2022 season that featured some high points, with none higher than a career-best sixth-place finish at Daytona in August. #4 - Kevin Harvick - Stewart-Haas Racing Ford (Crew Chief: Rodney Childers). Smith will attempt to qualify for the Daytona 500 before running Richmond in the spring, Talladega and Phoenix in the fall, and the All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro. 41, after signing a multi-year contract extension, Ty Gibbs takes over for Kyle Busch as the driver of what was the No. (10-14-2022) Busch has hinted that he could retire after 2023. Rick Ware Racing looks as though it will once again use a variety of drivers in its No. 45 in the playoffs last year for owner's points purposes. #51 - Cody Ware - Rick Ware Racing Ford (Crew Chief: Billy Plourde). The NASCAR pit crew, they're the true unsung heroes of the sport. 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. The wheels will have one lug nut instead of five. These are tremendously amount heavier than last years.. Dillon didnt have a full-time ride last year, and Donley is a former engineer at Chip Ganassi Racing. Before the season began, there was a pretty good sense of who Ross Chastain was and what he was capable of. #24 - William Byron - Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Rudy Fugle). Wallace will look to build on his overall stats, as he and his race team scored just three top 10 finishes in 2021 -- though all were top 5s. Based on Burtons advanced statistics during the event at Auto Club Speedway, he exceeded his actual running position with a better finish and will look to improve next time out. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions. 11 for Joe Gibbs Racing in 2023 in what is currently the longest-running active pairing of a driver and team in NASCAR. Hence, the pit strategy can play an important role in the result of the Cup race, perhaps more than in any other racing event. Every single driver who competed for the championship had at least one finish inside the top 10. Billy Plourde is now the listed crew chief after working with Cody Ware in 2022. Reddick is a prime candidate to become a first-time winner in 2022, as he has contended for multiple wins and finished second on three occasions since going full-time Cup racing in 2020. After winning Cup Series Rookie of the Year honors in 2020, the sophomore slump hit Cole Custer like a load of bricks in 2021. #17 - Chris Buescher - RFK Racing Ford (Crew Chief: Scott Graves). Midway through that race, the lug nut on Jones' right rear wheel became so tightly fastened that it was impossible for his crew to get it off and change his right rear tire. #34 - Michael McDowell - Front Row Motorsports Ford (Crew Chief: Travis Peterson). As much as NASCAR's 75th anniversary season is a celebration of the sport's colorful past, the spotlight of the 2023 campaign will center around stock car racing's present. Team co-owner BJ McLeod is expected to continue to drive this car for most of the season. As one can imagine, NASCAR fans didn't have the most welcoming reception for the new pit guns on Twitter. There was some talk of Project91 fielding a car in the Daytona 500, but team owner Justin Marks announced the team would focus on road courses. 19 Joe. 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. Their No. 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. Byron and crew chief Rudy Fugle will try to discover similar success in 2023 and sustain it. Kyle Larson might have been one of the favorites at Auto Club; however, an electrical issue in Stage 1 ended any chances for the weekend. No. But this isnt as much about Jones and Elenz, who was crew chief for Noah Gragson on the Xfinity side, as it is about the new Petty GMS Motorsports. Tyler Reddick and Ryan Preece have also taken over high-profile rides this season, and two rookie drivers -- Xfinity Series rivals Ty Gibbs and Noah Gragson -- have moved up to the Cup Series full-time. 2022 average finish: 11.0. Daly will attempt to qualify for the Daytona 500 and up to seven Cup races in total. The hire of Gilliland keeps things all in the family, as his father David Gilliland drove the No. Bell was caught up in a baffling wreck on a restart and finished in 32nd place. The No. McLeod - Live Fast Motorsports Ford (Crew Chief: Lee Leslie). 23 car barred him from a better finish. While Brad Keselowski's arrival signals major changes at RFK Racing, Chris Buescher remains the driver of the team's No. #5 - Kyle Larson - Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Cliff Daniels). #38 - Todd Gilliland (R) - Front Row Motorsports Ford (Crew Chief: Seth Barbour). Through years of overachieving in lesser equipment, the consensus was that Chastain was a talented driver who made his way on merit, and one that was capable of taking the better equipment he worked his way into and winning at least one Cup race with it. The No. 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. McCall was crew chief for Kurt Busch at Chip Ganassi Racing, and the former driver was recruited hard by Keselowski. 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. The heart wants to put this pairing higher on the list, but the mind says SHR struggled last year and might again this year. #7 - Corey LaJoie - Spire Motorsports Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Ryan Sparks). Taking over will be Blake Harris, who joins Hendrick Motorsports after elevating the performnace of Michael McDowell and Front Row Motorsports. That's what Christopher Bell did in the Round of 12 and Round of 8 on his way to the Championship 4. After racing full-time for Kaulig in Xfinity and most of last year's Cup season for Spire Motorsports, Justin Haley has been tabbed as the full-time driver of one of Kaulig's two new full-time Cup teams. #16 - AJ Allmendinger - Kaulig Racing Chevrolet (Crew Chief: Matt Swiderski). section: | slug: nascar-2023-every-cup-series-driver-race-team-in-the-field-for-this-season | sport: nascar | route: article_single.us |
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