After more than two years, the football-coach-turned-NASCAR-team-owner will largely lift the restrictions that prohibited his Cup Series drivers from extracurricular racing on dirt. The decision comes as the team prepares to add a second driver with a dirt background to its Cup roster in 2025 (Chase Briscoe is joining Christopher Bell), plus new interest in dirt racing from a third driver, Ty Gibbs.
In a statement to The Athletic, Gibbs said he has “always preferred (drivers’) focus remain on racing in NASCAR.” But with three-quarters of JGR’s Cup roster expressing a desire to race dirt (all but Denny Hamlin), the team “felt it was fair to come up with a process to consider those opportunities.”