The NASCAR team owned by Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Jr. will attempt to make its Cup Series debut in the biggest race with a champion driver and a partnership with a Grammy Award-winning artist

The NASCAR team owned by Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Jr. will attempt to make its Cup Series debut in the Daytona 500 with a champion driver and a partnership with a Grammy Award-winning artist. JR Motorsports has entered reigning Xfinity Series champion Justin Allgaier into next month’s season-opening “Great American Race” in a Chevrolet sponsored by the whiskey label created by 10-time Grammy winner Chris Stapleton.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be an owner at the Daytona 500 for the first time in 2025 with Justin Allgaier driving and Chris Stapleton sponsoring the car.

JR Motorsports is attempting a NASCAR Cup Series race for the first time. The team owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr. is entering the 2025 Daytona 500 with Justin Allgaier behind the wheel. Allgaier won the 2024 Xfinity Series title and has driven for JR Motorsports in NASCAR’s No.

The team will field an entry in the 2025 Daytona 500 with Justin Allgaier as the driver, and he will drive the No. 40 car for Chris Stapleton’s Traveller Whiskey brand (to correspond with the blend No. 40 in the product), with Greg Ives as the crew chief.

JR Motorsports today announced that NASCAR Hall of Famer and two-time DAYTONA 500 winner Dale Earnhardt Jr., along with 10-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and musician Chris Stapleton, have come together to field the inaugural entry for JRM in the NASCAR Cup Series in the 2025 running of the DAYTONA 500.

For the first time in JR Motorsports history, the team co-owned by two-time Daytona 500 winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his sister Kelley Earnhardt Miller will field an entry in the Daytona 500 with NASCAR Xfinity Series champion Justin Allgaier as the driver.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s JR Motorsports is making its NASCAR Cup Series debut at the 2025 Daytona 500 with Justin Allgaier behind the wheel of the No. 40 Chevrolet.

This marks the first time JR Motorsports has entered a car in a Cup race and it comes at the event Dale Earnhardt Jr. won twice as a driver.

Riverton native Justin Allgaier hopes to earn a spot in the Great American Race next month for car owner Dale Earnhardt Jr. The car’s primary sponsor is Traveller Whiskey, which is a brand collaboration between Buffalo Trace Distillery and Grammy award winner Chris Stapleton.

Watch the official JR Motorsports announcement as Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Chris Stapleton announce their partnership in a bid for the Daytona 500. Video courtesy of Dirty Mo Media and JR Motorsports.