Casey Mears Return Highlights 38-Car NASCAR Cup Martinsville Entry List

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On Monday afternoon, NASCAR revealed a 37-car entry list for Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series Cook Out 400 at Martinsville Speedway. The entry list features all 36 Chartered full-time NASCAR Cup Series entries as well as two part-time "Open" entries.

The biggest notable on the entry list is the return of Casey Mears, who will make his first NASCAR Cup Series start since the 2019 season. Mears, who will make the 490th start of his career, will pilot the No. 66 Garage 66 (formerly known as MBM Motorsports) Ford Mustang Dark Horse.

Mears has one NASCAR Cup Series win, which came in the 2007 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Mears was driving the No. 25 Hendrick Motorsports entry in that event.

Burt Myers, who competed in the preseason exhibition event at Bowman Gray Stadium, will return to action this weekend driving the No. 50 Chevrolet for Team AmeriVet Racing.

NASCAR Cup Series Cook Out 400 Entry List

Car	Driver	Team	Manufacturer
1	Ross Chastain	Trackhouse Racing	Chevrolet
2	Austin Cindric	Team Penske	Ford
3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet
4	Noah Gragson	Front Row Motorsports	Ford
5	Kyle Larson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
6	Brad Keselowski	RFK Racing	Ford
7	Justin Haley	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet
8	Kyle Busch	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet
9	Chase Elliott	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
10	Ty Dillon	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet
11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
12	Ryan Blaney	Team Penske	Ford
16	AJ Allmendinger	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet
17	Chris Buescher	RFK Racing	Ford
19	Chase Briscoe	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
20	Christopher Bell	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
21	Josh Berry	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford
22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford
23	Bubba Wallace	23XI Racing	Toyota
24	William Byron	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
34	Michael McDowell	Spire Motorsports	Ford
35	Riley Herbst #	23XI Racing	Toyota
38	Zane Smith	Front Row Motorsports	Ford
41	Cole Custer	Haas Factory Team	Ford
42	John Hunter Nemechek	LEGACY MOTOR CLUB	Toyota
43	Erik Jones	LEGACY MOTOR CLUB	Toyota
45	Tyler Reddick	23XI Racing	Toyota
47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	HYAK Motorsports	Chevrolet
48	Alex Bowman	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
51	Cody Ware	Rick Ware Racing	Ford
54	Ty Gibbs	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
60	Ryan Preece	RFK Racing	Ford
66	Casey Mears *	Garage 66	Ford
71	Michael McDowell	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet
77	Carson Hocevar	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet
88	Shane van Gisbergen #	Trackhouse Racing	Chevrolet
99	Daniel Suarez	Trackhouse Racing	Chevrolet

# indicates Rookie of the Year contender
* indicates "Open" entry
(i) indicates driver ineligible to score NASCAR Cup Series points