{"id":867573,"date":"2026-08-22T16:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/867573\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T16:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:18:12","slug":"two-lineup-changes-confirmed-before-nascar-cup-race-at-new-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/867573\/","title":{"rendered":"Two lineup changes confirmed before NASCAR Cup race at New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7e\">For just the fourth time in the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season, a race is set to consist of only the 36 chartered cars this weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7h\">Sunday afternoon&#8217;s 301-lap Dollar Tree 301 around the four-turn, 1.058-mile (1.703-kilometer) &#8220;Magic Mile&#8221; oval in Loudon, New Hampshire is set to be just the third oval race of the seasons not to feature any non-chartered (open) cars. The others were contested at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in mid-March and at Iowa Speedway two weekends ago.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7k\">Only one open car ran the series&#8217; most recent race at Richmond Raceway, and that car&#8217;s removal is the only subtraction from the entry list since that race a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>One entry list change (plus one number change) confirmed for New Hampshire<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7q\">Garage 66 (MBM Motorsports) entered the No. 66 Ford for Josh Bilicki at Richmond, marking his second race of the year and the team&#8217;s 11th. It was supposed to be his third, but the team <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondtheflag.com\/nascar-cup-team-withdraws-chicago-race-second-time-in-2026-01kwk1avh8te\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">withdrew from the race at Chicagoland Speedway in early July<\/a>. He finished 35th at Richmond, which was his best non-DNF result on an oval since 2024.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7t\">Carl Long&#8217;s team does plan to return later this season, but their next scheduled start isn&#8217;t until the playoff opener at Darlington Raceway on Labor Day Weekend. They&#8217;ve yet to confirm a driver for that event, but Timmy Hill competed for the team in that race in both 2024 and 2025. He also drove the No. 66 car at the track back in March.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7w\">The only other change this weekend is a number change, and that is on the Legacy Motor Club Toyota of John Hunter Nemechek. Nemechek is still running for the No. 42 team and scoring points for the No. 42 team in the owner standings, but <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondtheflag.com\/john-hunter-nemechek-won-t-drive-the-no-42-car-at-new-hampshire-01m0gbdrkm2a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his car has been renumbered to No. 40 for this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7z\">This change was made as a nod to primary sponsor Dollar Tree, which is celebrating their 40th anniversary this year. Dollar Tree, as stated, is also the primary sponsor of Sunday&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"82\">Teammate Erik Jones is still set to drive the No. 43 Toyota, which is alos set to be sponsored by Dollar Tree in this race. The retailer has been a partner of Legacy Motor Club since January 2024.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"88\">New Hampshire Motor Speedway is scheduled to host the Dollar Tree 301 this Sunday, August 23, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/nascar-cup-series\/2026\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">live coverage set to be provided by USA Network<\/a> beginning at 3:00 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow beyondtheflag.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=beyondtheflag.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" preventdefault:click=\"\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\" on:pointerenter=\"q-BRiPWOoq.js#s_1NOcOpHWmT0\" on:touchstart=\"q-D9SNAstX.js#s_R8AiGTDeM28\" on:focus=\"q-BQAbxC21.js#s_gxiTM6qMMu8\" on:click=\"q-xLg4OwsX.js#s_lDqay9E5m5g[0]\" q:id=\"8c\">Follow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For just the fourth time in the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season, a race is set to consist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-867573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}