There have been a lot of driving and team changes in the NASCAR Cup series before the 2025 season.
Nearly a third of the 36 chartered teams are new to a certain extent after the closure of Stewart-Haas Racing and the expansion of teams like 23x Racing, the front row Motorsports and Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing. Here is an overview of the Digital Cars Order of Pilots in new places this season.
Noah Gragson, n ° 4 Ford, front Row Motorsports
Gragson begins his third season in the Cup series. He entered each of these seasons with a different team. He lost his turn at the Legacy Motor Club during the 2023 season due to a racist publication on social networks, but was hired for an open seat in Stewart-Haas Racing in 2024. However, Shr closed its doors at the end of last season. Front Row added Gragson when he extended to three cars and he will seek to build a 2024 season which included seven top-10 and an average finish of 19.6.
Ty Dillon, n ° 10 Chevy, Kaulig Racing
Dillon is back in full time in the Cup series after having run part -time in 2024. In his last full -time season in 2023, Dillon finished 32nd in points and did not record a finish among the 10 first. Over 245 races, he has two top five and seven top 10.
AJ ALLMENDINGER, n ° 16 Chevy, KAULIG RACING
2023 was also the last full -time season of Allmendinger in the Cup series. He rebounded in both directions between the cup and the Xfinity series for Kaulig Racing and won two races in the series and 16 races in the Xfinity series since he joined the team. Kaulig would be intelligent to ensure that AllMendinger has the best possible car for class races on the road.
Chase Briscoe, n ° 19 Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing
Briscoe succeeds Martin Truex Jr. to Joe Gibbs Racing after four seasons with Stewart-Haas Racing. He won in 2022 and finished ninth in the ranking. Last season, he won the regular season final in Darlington to participate in the playoffs. He finally finished 14th. At JGR, Briscoe is now with a team that should be able to win every week unless the bizarre errors and sub-performance that have tormented Truex in its last seasons are not somewhat reproduced.
Josh Berry, n ° 21 Ford, Wood Brothers Racing
Another driver left without a walk because of the closure of Shr, Berry landed with the Wood brothers after leaving Harrison Burton. You could do much worse than choosing Berry as a newcomer to the playoffs. His season recruited in the series Cup last year was a bit of the roller coaster, but don’t forget that he had a top five and three top 10 in eight races as a Hendrick sub-stage in 2023.
Riley Herbst, n ° 35 Toyota, 23xi Racing
Herbst moves from the Xfinity series while 23X extends to three cars. Herbst did not win any of his first three full -time seasons in the Xfinity series before winning once in 2023 and twice in 2024. It is just to wonder what will be his learning curve for the Cup series and Shr during these five seasons.
Zane Smith, n ° 38 Ford, first -row car sports
Smith is back for his second passage to the race in the front row. The champion of the 2022 truck series obtained departures from eight cuts with the team before signing with a trackhouse and running to Spire in 2024. He had an absolutely miserable start to the season, but there were signs of Life in the second half with two top five and four top -10 finishes.
Cole Custer, n ° 41 Ford, Haas factory team
The Haas factory team uses one of the Stewart-Haas Racing charter restrictions. Custer, the son of the former director of the SHR and the current president of the HFT team, Joe Custer, is back for his second series of cups after three seasons between 2020 and 2022. He won a race in 2020, then won the title of the XFINITY 2023 series before finishing second a year ago.
Cody Ware, n ° 51 Ford, Rick Ware Racing
Ware started 67 seal series races during the 2021 and 2022 seasons with a top 10. He was arrested for assault against his ex-girlfriend in April 2023, although the accusations were rejected after none of the parties cooperated with prosecutors. He was reinstated at the end of 2023 and ran in nine races a season ago.
Ryan Preece, n ° 60 Ford, Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing
Preece enters her sixth full season in the Cup series still looking for his first victory. He has spent the last two seasons in Stewart-Haas Racing and has scored two top-five and seven top 10. The move to RFK should be an upgrade of preece, but there can be early growth pain while the ‘team extends to a third full -time car for the first time since 2016.
Michael McDowell, n ° 71 Chevy, Spire Motorsports
McDowell goes from first row to Spire after winning two races in the last four seasons. One of these victories was 2021 Daytona 500 after the late crash that removed the teammates from Penske Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano and McDowell won the Indianapolis Road course in 2023. A season, McDowell had two First and seven top 10s finishing 23rd in the points classification. Can he match this production during his first season in Spire?
Shane Van Gisbergen, n ° 88 Chevy, Rackhouse Racing
The former Australian Supercars champion won his first cup departure in 2023 when he won a victory in the street race in Chicago. He ran full time in the XFINITY series in 2024 and won three road races and in the street on the way to a 12th place in the classification. Van Gisbergen will probably be a half-pauck driver on most oval, but he is a serious threat to win in Chicago or another course on the road.
