{"id":953230,"date":"2026-10-31T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953230\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T14:20:09","slug":"nascar-driver-out-for-the-rest-of-2026-after-quietly-strong-cup-series-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953230\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR driver out for the rest of 2026 after quietly strong Cup Series debut"},"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=\"7i\">Daniel Dye started the 2026 NASCAR season as a full-time driver for Kaulig Racing in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, as they dropped their O&#8217;Reilly Auto Parts Series team, where he had spent the 2025 season, to fully embrace Ram&#8217;s return to NASCAR with the trucks.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7n\">He lost his ride after an off-track controversy, but after having run the first few races of the Truck Series season and select O&#8217;Reilly Series races with AM Racing, <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondtheflag.com\/nascar-just-lost-third-team-2026-after-another-surprise-shutdown-01m65a4aqk84\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which later shut down<\/a>, he was able to land a part-time Cup Series ride with Live Fast Motorsports.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7s\">Team owner B.J. McLeod had been behind the wheel of the No. 78 car for all 30 of the superspeedway\/drafting races (including the two DNQs) that had been contested since the team entered the series in 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondtheflag.com\/nascar-cup-team-changes-drivers-atlanta-after-ending-30-race-streak-01kx8130bg5s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">but that streak came to an end<\/a> when he turned the reins over to Dye at Talladega Superspeedway in April. Dye finished in 24th.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Dye finished in NASCAR Cup Series for 2026<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"82\">He has run four races since then, and aside from his crash at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, he has not finished lower than 29th in a No. 78 Chevrolet that has been generally known to run outside the top 30.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"87\">He made his fifth and final Cup Series start of the season at Talladega and finished 25th this past weekend, and he doesn&#8217;t have any other starts lined up in the Truck Series or O&#8217;Reilly Series this year either. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"8c\">Dye was able to get back to the Truck Series for a few races with McAnally-Hilgemann Racing after his split from Kaulig Racing, and he was able to get back to the O&#8217;Reilly Series for a few races with Jordan Anderson Racing following AM Racing&#8217; shutdown. He is set to run full-time for Jordan Anderson Racing next year.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"8h\">The No. 78 Chevrolet isn&#8217;t on the entry list at all this weekend at Martinsville Speedway, and as of now, the team have no plans to enter it in the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway next weekend, but it would not be surprising to see the team&#8217;s relationship with Dye remain intact for another partial schedule in 2027.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"8r\">Live coverage of the Xfinity 500 is set to be provided by NBC from Martinsville Speedway beginning at 2:00 p.m. ET this Sunday, November 1. Start a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fubo.tv\/welcome?irad=343747&amp;irmp=1412332&amp;subId1=FS-2024streaming\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free trial of FuboTV today<\/a> and don&#8217;t miss any of the action from the penultimate race of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series postseason!<\/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:click=\"q-BuzMUIXO.js#s_lDqay9E5m5g[0]\" q:id=\"8x\">Follow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Dye started the 2026 NASCAR season as a full-time driver for Kaulig Racing in the NASCAR Craftsman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-953230","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\/953230","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=953230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}