2024 NASCAR Cup Series
The 2024 NASCAR Cup Series will be the 76th season for NASCAR professional stock car racing in the United States and the 53rd season for the modern-era Cup Series. The season will start with the Busch Light Clash on February 4 (the Sunday before Super Bowl LVIII), at the L.A Coliseum. The Clash will be followed by the Bluegreen Vacations Duel qualifying races on February 15 and the 66th running of the Daytona 500 (the first points race of the season) on February 18, both at Daytona International Speedway. The season will end with the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway on November 10. This will also be the first season without Kevin Harvick since 2000, as he is set to retire after the 2023 season and will join the NASCAR on Fox broadcast booth in 2024. In addition, this will be the last season for NASCAR's current TV rights deal, which began in 2015. Teams and drivers

Chartered teams

Non-chartered teams

Limited schedule

Confirmed changes

Teams
 On September 16, 2023, Spire Motorsports purchased Live Fast Motorsports' charter for approximately $40 million. Spire will field a third full-time team in partnership with Trackhouse Racing, who signed 2022 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Zane Smith. LFM will continue to operate as a part-time open team in 2024. The team has yet to determine what the car number for their new third car will be. On October 2, 2023, Australian Supercars Championship team Erebus Motorsport announced they plan to run select races in 2024 with driver Brodie Kostecki and a partnership with Richard Childress Racing. The team's announcement had a picture of a car with the No. 99 but the team will need to pick a different number as Trackhouse Racing uses that number in the Cup Series. Manufacturers
 On May 2, 2023, Legacy Motor Club announced that they would be switching from Chevrolet to Toyota in 2024. On November 1, 2023, Ford Performance announced they would be switching to the 2024 Ford Mustang Dark Horse for the 2024 season replacing the 6th gen Mustang. Sponsorship
 On July 11, 2023, it was announced that Anheuser-Busch (Busch Light) signed a multi-year deal to sponsor the Trackhouse Racing No. 1 driven by Ross Chastain for 18 races starting in 2024. With Anheuser-Busch leaving Stewart-Haas Racing following Kevin Harvick's retirement, team owner Tony Stewart stated on June 21, 2023 that sponsorship on the No. 4 car was open during the announcement of Josh Berry replacing Harvick. On October 29, 2023, Smithfield Foods announced that it will not return to NASCAR as a sponsor in 2024, after Aric Almirola announced his retirement from full-time competition. Smithfield sponsored Almirola from 2012 to 2017 when he drove the No. 43 for Richard Petty Motorsports, and once again from 2018 to 2023 when he drove the No. 10 for Stewart-Haas Racing. Other potential and rumored changes

Teams
 In an interview with Racer magazine, RFK Racing co-owner Brad Keselowski said he was interested in adding a third team, but it was not possible due to the unavailability of charters. On October 6, 2022, 3F Racing announced that they hope to run the full season with their No. 30 car in the Cup Series in 2024 after debuting in the series part-time in 2023 (although the team has yet to enter any Cup Series races in 2023). On July 18, 2023, the team announced that Xfinity and Truck Series driver Ryan Vargas would be their Director of Team and Driver Development as well as a reserve driver for them when they debut in the Cup Series. It was not announced whether 3F still intends to debut in the Cup Series in 2023 or 2024. Schedule
The 2024 schedule was released on October 4, 2023. Notes: Race names and title sponsors are subject to change. Not all title sponsors/names of races have been announced for 2024. For the races where a 2024 name and title sponsor has yet to be announced, the title sponsors/names of those races in 2023 are listed. Confirmed schedule changes
 On November 6, 2022, it was confirmed that 2023 would be the last race on Auto Club Speedway's 2-mile configuration. The track is scheduled to be reconfigured into a short track in the coming years and will not be on the 2024 schedule while it is under construction. On September 15, 2023, Bristol Motor Speedway announced that the spring Bristol race would return to being run on concrete, after the race taken place of dirt the prior three seasons. In the same press release, it was confirmed that Bristol will continue having two race dates. On September 28, 2023, Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced that the Cup Series will return to the oval layout in 2024, in time to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Brickyard 400. The track hosted NASCAR since 1994 and used the oval layout until 2020. From 2021 to 2023, the Cup Series used the grand prix circuit layout. On October 2, 2023, Fox Sports and The Athletic reported that Iowa Speedway was expected to receive a NASCAR Cup Series race in 2024, replacing the race at Auto Club Speedway. A press conference by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds was held on October 3, where she and NASCAR officially announced the inaugural Cup Series race at Iowa Speedway on June 16. The Cup Series will take a two-week hiatus between the Brickyard 400 and the Cook Out 400, as NBC will cover the 2024 Summer Olympics. Rumored schedule changes
 NASCAR could potentially return to Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal with the track hosting a Cup Series race for the first time in 2024, if the race occurs it would be the first international Cup Series race since the 1958 season. On October 2, 2023, it was reported by Fox Sports and The Athletic that this deal fell through. NASCAR and the city of Chicago have a deal to host the Chicago Street Race again in 2024 and 2025 with the ability to request an extension through 2027, but the fate of the race may be determined by the city's new mayor, Brandon Johnson, who took office in May 2023 after the race had been largely planned by his predecessor, Lori Lightfoot, who lost re-election, and her administration. On October 12, 2023, Sports Business Journal reported that the contract for the street race has not yet been finalized, despite it being on the released 2024 schedule. See also
 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series
 2024 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

References

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