The green flag is set to drop on the Food City 500 at approximately 3 p.m. EST Sunday for the first of two Cup Series races this season at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Thirty-nine teams will compete at the half-mile short track. Notable entries include Corey LaJoie’s third races of the season in the No. 01, Jesse Love making his Cup debut in the Richard Childress Racing No. 33 and Josh Bilicki will pilot the No. 66 Carl Long/Garage 66 entry. Several cars will also debut new schemes for 2025, including AJ Allmendinger, Daniel Suarez, Shane van Gisbergen, Ross Chastain, Noah Gragson and others.
Of the 39 entries, 10 are currently available to order as 1/24 and/or 1/64 scale diecast. They include;
Kyle Larson No. 5 Hendrickcars.com

Kyle Busch No. 8 Cheddar’s

Chase Elliott No. 9 NAPA

Chase Briscoe No. 19 Bass Pro Shops

Josh Berry No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane

Joey Logano No. 22 Shell Pennzoil

William Byron No. 24 Axalta

Cole Custer No. 41 Haas Tooling

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. No. 47 SunnyD

Alex Bowman No. 48 Ally

The cars competing in the Food City 500 that are not yet available as diecasts or will not be produced includes;
- Corey LaJoie No. 01 Shluter Systems
- Ross Chastain No. 1 Busch Light Flannel
- Austin Cindric No. 2 Snap On
- Austin Dillon No. 3 Get Bioethanol
- Noah Gragson No. 4 Rural King
- Brad Keselowski No. 6 Kroger/Oscar Mayer/Rustik Oven
- Justin Haley No. 7 NationsGuard
- Ty Dillon No. 10 Okuma
- Denny Hamlin. No. 11 Progressive
- Ryan Blaney No. 12 Menards/Richmond Water Heaters
- AJ Allmendinger No. 16 Grizzly Nicotine Pouches
- Chris Buescher No. 17 Buildsubmarines.com
- Christopher Bell No. 20 Rheem
- Bubba Wallace No. 23 U.S. Air Force
- Jesse Love No. 33 C4 Energy
- Todd Gilliland Love’s (DNP)
- Riley Herbst No. 35 Lucy
- Zane Smith No. 38 Aaron’s Lucky Dog
- John Hunter Nemechek No. 42 Dollar Tree
- Erik Jones No. 43 Advent Health
- Tyler Reddick No. 45 The Beast
- Cody Ware No. 51 Arby’s
- Ty Gibbs No. 54 Monster Energy
- Ryan Preece No. 60 Boost by Kroger
- Josh Bilicki No. 66 Manscaped
- Michael McDowell No. 71 Delaware Life
- Carson Hocevar No. 77 Ride the ‘Dente
- Shane van Gisbergen No. 88 Safety Culture
- Daniel Suarez No. 99 Choice Privileges




























Gallery photo credits: NASCAR.com






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