There are 37 cars on the preliminary entry list for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series Cook Out 400 at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia. This race, which takes place around the half-mile paperclip, will mark the eighth race of the 36-race NASCAR Cup Series season.
With the NASCAR Cup Series able to start up to 40 cars in the field for its events, no drivers or teams will fail to qualify for this weekend’s event. The 37 cars on the entry list this weekend is an increase from the 36 cars that raced last weekend at Richmond Raceway.
Denny Hamlin, who scored the win in last weekend’s Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway, will return this week in the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota Camry XSE with primary sponsorship from SportClips Haircuts. Hamlin, one of two multi-time race winners in the NASCAR Cup Series in 2024, will look to visit victory lane once again at Martinsville Speedway, a track that he’s had success at in the past.
Among the notable entries, will be the No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet Camaro entry, which will be piloted by full-time NASCAR Xfinity Series racer Josh Williams, who will make his second points-paying start of the season in the NASCAR Cup Series.
Kaz Grala will once again return the driver’s seat of the No. 15 Ford Mustang for Rick Ware Racing, as he has for the last seven weeks of the NASCAR Cup Series campaign, excluding the Daytona 500, where it was occupied by Riley Herbst.
The sole open vehicle entered in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series event at Martinsville will be the No 66 Ford Mustang for Power Source, which will be driven by a driver to be announced later.
Cook Out 400 Entry List
| Entry | # | Driver | Team | Crew Chief |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Ross Chastain | Trackhouse Racing Worldwide Express Chevrolet | Phil Surgen |
| 2 | 2 | Austin Cindric | Team Penske Menards / Libman Ford | Brian Wilson |
| 3 | 3 | Austin Dillon | Richard Childress Racing Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet | Keith Rodden |
| 4 | 4 | Josh Berry | Stewart-Haas Racing Mobil 1 50th Anniversary Ford | Rodney Childers |
| 5 | 5 | Kyle Larson | Hendrick Motorsports HendrickCars.com / Hendrick 40th Anniversary Chevrolet | Cliff Daniels |
| 6 | 6 | Brad Keselowski | RFK Racing Body Guard Ford | Matt McCall |
| 7 | 7 | Corey LaJoie | Spire Motorsports Gainbridge Chevrolet | Ryan Sparks |
| 8 | 8 | Kyle Busch | Richard Childress Racing Lucas Oil Chevrolet | Randall Burdett |
| 9 | 9 | Chase Elliott | Hendrick Motorsports UniFirst / Hendrick 40th Anniversary Chevrolet | Alan Gustafson |
| 10 | 10 | Noah Gragson | Stewart-Haas Racing Overstock.com Ford | Drew Blickensderfer |
| 11 | 11 | Denny Hamlin | Joe Gibbs Racing SportClips Haircuts Toyota | Chris Gabehart |
| 12 | 12 | Ryan Blaney | Team Penske Advance Auto Parts Ford | Jonathan Hassler |
| 13 | 14 | Chase Briscoe | Stewart-Haas Racing Mahindra Tractors Ford | Richard Boswell II |
| 14 | 15 | Kaz Grala | Rick Ware Racing N29 Capital Partners Ford | Billy Plourde |
| 15 | 16 | Josh Williams | Kaulig Racing Alloy Employer Services Chevrolet | Travis Mack |
| 16 | 17 | Chris Buescher | RFK Racing BuildSubmarines.com Ford | Scott Graves |
| 17 | 19 | Martin Truex, Jr. | Joe Gibbs Racing Bass Pro Shops Toyota | James Small |
| 18 | 20 | Christopher Bell | Joe Gibbs Racing Yahoo! Toyota | Adam Stevens |
| 19 | 21 | Harrison Burton | Wood Brothers Racing Motorcraft / QuickLane Ford | Jeremy Bullins |
| 20 | 22 | Joey Logano | Team Penske Shell-Pennzoil Ford | Paul Wolfe |
| 21 | 23 | Bubba Wallace | 23XI Racing McDonald's Toyota | Bootie Barker |
| 22 | 24 | William Byron | Hendrick Motorsports Axalta / Hendrick 40th Anniversary Chevrolet | Rudy Fugle |
| 23 | 31 | Daniel Hemric | Kaulig Racing Chevrolet | Trent Owens |
| 24 | 34 | Michael McDowell | Front Row Motorsports Long John Silver's Ford | Travis Peterson |
| 25 | 38 | Todd Gilliland | Front Row Motorsports Carson-Newman University Ford | Ryan Bergenty |
| 26 | 41 | Ryan Preece | Stewart-Haas Racing HaasTooling.com Ford | Chad Johnston |
| 27 | 42 | John Hunter Nemechek | LEGACY MOTOR CLUB Skip Barber Racing School Toyota | Ben Beshore |
| 28 | 43 | Erik Jones | LEGACY MOTOR CLUB Family Dollar Toyota | Dave Elenz |
| 29 | 45 | Tyler Reddick | 23XI Racing MoneyLion Toyota | Billy Scott |
| 30 | 47 | Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. | JTG Daugherty Racing SunnyD Chevrolet | Mike Kelley |
| 31 | 48 | Alex Bowman | Hendrick Motorsports Ally / Hendrick 40th Anniversary Chevrolet | Blake Harris |
| 32 | 51 | Justin Haley | Rick Ware Racing Ohanafy Ford | Chris Lawson |
| 33 | 54 | Ty Gibbs | Joe Gibbs Racing Monster Energy Toyota | Chris Gayle |
| 34 | 66 | TBA | MBM Motorsports Ford | Carl Long |
| 35 | 71 | Zane Smith | Spire Motorsports Focused Health Chevrolet | Stephan Doran |
| 36 | 77 | Carson Hocevar | Spire Motorsports Delaware Life Chevrolet | Luke Lambert |
| 37 | 99 | Daniel Suarez | Trackhouse Racing Freeway Insurance Chevrolet | Matt Swiderski |
