With 40 cars racing each week and 36 teams locked into the season opening Daytona 500, there will be a few teams who will fail to make the first race of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.
Below is the entry list. Notice the 97 entry of Tanner Berryhill is absent as is the 7 of JJ Yeley. Not counting those two teams at least two cars would fail to make the race.
Drivers locked into the Daytona 500
No. 00 Landon Cassill
No. 1 Kurt Busch
No. 2 Brad Keselowski
No. 3 Austin Dillon
No. 4 Kevin Harvick
No. 6 Ryan Newman
No. 8 Daniel Hemric
No. 9 Chase Elliott
No. 10 Aric Almirola
No. 11 Denny Hamlin
No. 12 Ryan Blaney
No. 13 Ty Dillon
No. 14 Clint Bowyer
No. 15 Ross Chastain
No. 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
No. 18 Kyle Busch
No. 19 Martin Truex Jr.
No. 20 Erik Jones
No. 21 Paul Menard
No. 22 Joey Logano
No. 24 William Byron
No. 32 Corey LaJoie
No. 34 Michael McDowell
No. 36 Matt Tifft
No. 37 Chris Buescher
No. 38 David Ragan
No. 40 Jamie McMurray
No. 41 Daniel Suarez
No. 42 Kyle Larson
No. 43 Bubba Wallace
No. 47 Ryan Preece
No. 48 Jimmie Johnson
No. 51 Cody Ware
No. 52 BJ McLeod
No. 88 Alex Bowman
No. 95 Matt DiBenedetto
Drivers not locked in
No. 27 Casey Mears
No. 31 Tyler Reddick
No. 62 Brendan Gaughan
No. 66 Joey Gase
No. 71 Ryan Truex
No. 96 Parker Kligerman
