Plenty of new faces in new places on this year's 36-driver full-time NASCAR Cup roster and 40-driver Daytona 500 grid.
With a handful of notable exceptions, this year’s 36-race NASCAR Cup Series roster is almost identical to that of recent seasons. Here's a bit of what you might have missed during a news-filled offseason in NASCAR.
• The Rookie of the Year scrap should be interesting since the newcomers don’t particularly like each other. After winning 11 Xfinity races in two years,moves to grandpa Joe’s No. 54 Toyota, sort of replacing Kyle Busch. Noah Gragson is in the No. 42 Chevrolet at the newly renamed Legacy Motor Club of Maury Gallagher, Jimmie Johnson and Richard Petty. Gragson won eight Xfinity races last year en route to being series runner-up.
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