2021 Cup Series team chart

Full-time
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
00	Quin Houff	Mane N' Tail Units Moving Portable Storage 8-Ball Chocolate Whiskey (new) North Carolina Hall of Fame (new)	Chevrolet	StarCom Racing	George Church
No major changes
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
1	Kurt Busch	Monster Energy Gearwrench	Chevrolet	Chip Ganassi Racing	Matt McCall
No. 1 team will join Trackhouse Racing after 2021 following acquisition of Chip Ganassi Racing.
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
2	Brad Keselowski	Discount Tire Auto Trader Freightliner (new) Verizon (new)	Ford	Team Penske	Jeremy Bullins
No major changes
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
3	Austin Dillon	DOW Bass Pro Shops Whelen (new) Beztri.com (new)	Chevrolet	Richard Childress Racing	Justin Alexander
No major changes
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
4	Kevin Harvick	Busch/Busch Light Jimmy John's Mobil 1 Subway (new)	Ford	Stewart-Haas Racing	Rodney Childers
No major changes
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
5 (was #88)	Kyle Larson (new)	Hendrickcars.com (new) Valvoline (new) Freightliner (new) NationsGuard (new)	Chevrolet	Hendrick Motorsports	Cliff Daniels
Hendrick closed the #88, sent Bowman to drive the #48 and moved the team over to #5.
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
6	Ryan Newman	Oscar Meyer Castrol Kholer (new) Planters(new)	Ford	Roush Fenway Racing	Luke Lambert (new)
No major changes
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
7 (temporary)	Corey LaJoie	Schluter Systems (new)	Chevrolet	Spire Motorsports (new)	Ryan Sparks (new)
Will run the #7 with permission from Tommy Baldwin Racing. Will honor Alan Kulwicki at Darlington with throwback to Kulwicki's #7 Zerex Ford ran from 1987-1990.
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
8	Tyler Reddick	Caterpillar Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen (new) Lenovo (new)	Chevrolet	Richard Childress Racing	Randall Burdett
No major changes
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
9	Chase Elliott	NAPA Auto Parts Hooters Kelly Blue Book Unifirst	Chevrolet	Hendrick Motorsports	Alan Gustafson
No major changes
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
10	Aric Almirola	Smithfield Foods Mobil 1	Ford	Stewart-Haas Racing	Mike Bugarewicz
No major changes
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
11	Denny Hamlin	FedEx Offerpad (new) Craftsman (new)	Toyota	Joe Gibbs Racing	Chris Gabehart
No major changes
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
12	Ryan Blaney	Advanced Auto Parts Menards DEX Imaging	Ford	Team Penske	Todd Gordon
No major changes
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief
#13 (was #49)	Garrett Smithley David Starr	Trophy Tractor Broken Bow Luxury Cabins (new)	Toyota Ford	MBM Motorsports
MBM changed the car no/team from #49 over to #13.
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
14	Chase Briscoe (R) (new)	High Point (new) Rush Truck Centers Mobil 1 Ford Performance	Ford	Stewart-Haas Racing	John Klausmeier
Stewart-Haas promotes their Xfinity Series driver Chase Briscoe up to Cup to take over for retiring Clint Bowyer.
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
15	Joey Gase (new) James Davison (new) Derrike Cope (new)	InsuranceKing Jacob Companies (new) NOS Energy Drink (new) Explore Branson (new) Nutrec ODT/U.S Navy (new)	Chevrolet	Rick Ware Racing	Pat Tryson
Brennan Poole will not return, Premium Motorsports was bought by Rick Ware mid-season.
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
17	Chris Buescher	Fastenal Fith Third Bank Castrol	Ford	Roush Fenway Racing	Scott Graves
No major changes
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
18	Kyle Busch	M&M's/Skittles/Snickers Interstate Batteries Stanley Pedigree	Toyota	Joe Gibbs Racing	Ben Beshore (new)
No major changes
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
19	Martin Truex, Jr.	Bass Pro Shops Auto Owners Insurance DeWalt (new) Reser's Finer Foods (new) Stanley (new)	Toyota	Joe Gibbs Racing	James Small
No major changes
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
20	Christopher Bell (new)	DeWalt/Stanley/Irwin Sirius XM Rheem (new)	Toyota	Joe Gibbs Racing	Adam Stevens
JGR released Eric Jones, named Christopher Bell as replacement.
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
21	Matt DiBenedetto	Menards Motorcraft National Suicide Prevention Hotline (new)	Ford	Wood Brothers Racing	Greg Erwin
No major changes.
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finishsh
22	Joey Logano	Shell/Pennzoil AAA Insurance Auto Trader	Ford	Team Penske	Paul Wolfe
No major changes.
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
23 (new team)	Bubba Wallace (new)	Doordash (new) McDonalds (new) Columbia Sportswear (new) Dr. Pepper (new)	Toyota (new)	23XI Racing (new)	Bootie Barker (new)
23XI formed by Denny Hamlin and retired basketball legend Michael Jordan. Bubba Wallace chose to leave Petty Enterprises to sign with the team as driver.
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
24	William Byron	Axalta Liberty University Valvoline (new)	Chevrolet	Hendrick Motorsports	Rudy Fugle (new)
No major changes
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
34	Michael McDowell	Loves Travel Stops FR8 Auctions Outwest Express	Ford	Front Row Motorsports	Drew Blickensderfer
No major changes
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
37	Ryan Preece	Kroger Cottonelle Slim Jim Kleenex Viva Maxwell House Busch's Baked Beans	Chevrolet	JTG Daugherty Racing	Trent Owens
No major changes
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
38	Anthony Alfedo (R) (new)	SpeedyCash DUDE Wipes (new) Golden Nugget Casino Citgard (new) Georgia Peanuts (new)	Ford	Front Row Motorsports
Nemechek will not return, FRM signed Xfinity Series driver Anthony Alfredo to take over as driver.
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
41	Cole Custer	Haas Automation Dixie Vodka (new) AutoDesk (new) Feeding America (new)	Ford	Stewart-Haas Racing	Mike Shiplett
No major changes.
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
42	Ross Chastain (new)	AdVent Health Chevrolet Accessories McDonalds Clover	Chevrolet	Chip Ganassi Racing	Phil Surgen
Chastain will take over as driver, replacing Kenseth.
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
43	Eric Jones (new)	U.S. Airforce Medallion Bank Petty's Garage SCAG Power Equipment (new) The Lonely Entrepreneur (new)	Chevrolet	Richard Petty Motorsports	Jerry Baxter
Bubba Wallace left to join 23XI Racing. RPM signed Eric Jones to take over as driver.
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
47	Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.	Kroger Cottonelle NOS Energy Drink Kleenex SunnyD Scott Brands Hungry Jack	Chevrolet	JTG Daugherty Racing	Brian Pattie
No major changes
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
48	Alex Bowman (new)	Ally Finacial	Chevrolet	Hendrick Motorsports	Greg Ives (new)
Hendrick closes the #88 and moves Bowman over to replace retiring Jimmie Johnson.
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief	Pts finish
51	Cody Ware (new) Garrett Smithley James Davison (new)	Biohaven Pharmaceuticals’ Nurtec	Chevrolet	Rick Ware Racing	Mike Hillman, Sr.
Gase will drive the #53 Ware will share ride time with RWR drivers Smithley and Davison.

Unknown/Closed
Car no.	Driver	Sponsors	Make	Owner	Crew Chief
#13 (closed)		Chevrolet	Germain Racing
Sold to 23XI Racing