After competing in the throwback race weekend at Darlington Raceway, NASCAR Xfinity Series drivers will head to Dover International Speedway for the Drydene 200. Forty-three drivers are entered, and Andy Lally, Jordan Anderson and Ronnie Bassett Jr. will fail to make the race once again.
Ty Gibbs will make his fifth career Xfinity start, driving the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. He won his series debut at the Daytona International Speedway road course and has three top fives and three top 10s.
Full-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver John Hunter Nemechek will make his first Xfinity start of the season with Sam Hunt Racing. He will run a part-time slate with the team.
As previously announced, Kyle Sieg will make his series debut at Dover. The younger brother of full-time Xfinity Series driver Ryan Sieg, Kyle will drive the No. 90 DGM Racing Chevrolet in an RSS Racing alliance with his ARCA Menards Series crew chief Jeff Green atop the pit box.
BJ McLeod Motorsports team owner BJ McLeod will drive his own No. 99 Toyota. It’ll be his second straight start this season and first driving for his own team since last year’s season finale at Phoenix Raceway.
2021 Drydene 200 Entry List
The Drydene 200 will take place on Saturday, May 15 at 1:30 p.m. ET, with TV coverage provided by Fox Sports 1.
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and Andy Lally, Jordan Anderson and Ronnie Bassett Jr. will fail to make the race once again.
Mark why would you say something so ignorant?
I’m unsure what’s so ignorant about that sentence. All three drivers will fail to make this race. The ‘once again’ refers to the fact all three of those entries have failed to make every race this year. NASCAR will next have qualifying for the Xfinity Series at COTA and Charlotte, but this lineup will be determined via the metric qualifying format. Because NASCAR caps the field at 40, three drivers won’t compete on Saturday. As the author, I must mention which drivers will DNQ.
Not trying to speak for him, but I don’t believe he liked the way you phrased it. “Failed to make the race” could be construed as failed to qualify for the race, when the fact is they are being denied the opportunity altogether (which is absurd at this point IMHO).
You make a fair point. I specifically wrote it as “failed to make the race” rather than failed to qualify because there isn’t qualifying. When NASCAR has posted Truck Series entry lists, it has any drivers who’ll fail to make the race listed as “Excluded due to points.” It doesn’t list it that way for the Xfinity Series – I don’t know why – but per Racing Reference, which is owned/operated by NASCAR, Jordan Anderson has DNQ’d for every race this year. So perhaps leaving his entry on denotes he attempts to make the race? I’m not sure one way or the other, but yes, I too agree about qualifying.
Why would those 3 teams even make the trip if this was the case. Just go back to qualifying each week and stop being sheep. Tired of seeing the same ones start up front each week in all 3 divisions.
If you’re referring to those three teams as those which won’t make the race, those teams won’t show up at the track. But they still request their entry listed for each race. IIRC, teams can actually ask NASCAR to simply roll over their entry fee into the next race because they are excluded, until they actually DNQ due to qualifying. Don’t quote me on that, though.