{"id":903697,"date":"2026-11-02T22:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/903697\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T22:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:26:21","slug":"nascar-cup-homestead-finale-to-feature-full-field-of-40-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/903697\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Cup Homestead finale to feature full field of 40 cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2026 NASCAR Cup season finale will feature a full field of 40 cars on the grid, and it will be just the fifth race this year to hit the maximum grid size.<\/p>\n

Along with the 36 full-time, chartered entries, there will be four open entries as well.<\/p>\n

J.J. Yeley will make his 400th career NASCAR Cup start in the No. 44 NY Racing Team<\/a> Chevrolet, while Casey Mears<\/a> finally hits career start 500 in the No. 62 Beard Motorsports<\/a> Chevrolet.<\/p>\n

Chad Finchum is back in the No. 66 ‘Garage 66’ Ford, and rising star Corey Heim<\/a> returns to drive the No. 67 23XI Racing<\/a> entry, aiming to collect his third win of the year after stunning victories in San Diego and Indianapolis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The NASCAR O’Reilly Series will feature 38 entries, and the Truck Series will have 35 entries, with more details on all below:<\/p>\n

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\n\u00a0NASCAR Cup Homestead-Miami entry list<\/p>\n

Open entries italicized\u00a0<\/p>\n

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– The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 NASCAR Cup season finale will feature a full field of 40 cars on the grid, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[378069,65877,425,6327,378237,132991,26133,99],"class_list":["post-903697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-martinsville-ii","tag-martinsville-speedway","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-nascar-cup-homestead-finale-to-feature-full-field-of-40-cars","tag-nascar-oreilly","tag-nascar-truck","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}