F1 teams are assigned numbers based on the highest of their two drivers' finishing position in the previous year's World Driving Championship. The team with the defending champion gets numbers 1 and 2, and so forth down through the standings.
The drivers themselves aren't assigned car numbers. It's the team they race for that purchases the number from NASCAR.
Normally they get it from NASCAR or the racing company, like Stewart-Haas Racing. They can also get it from the old car number they could have driven.
NASCAR owns the rights to each car number. They license them to each team annually. Usually if a driver leaves a certain team, the team will retain the number.
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Michael Waltrip was the driver of the number 15 car in NASCAR in 2013.
Jeff Gordon drives the number 24 car in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
The NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson is not dead. He races in the number 48 car in the NASCAR races.
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Currently, Paul Menard drives the #27 car in the Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
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David Stremme currently drives the #30 car in the Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Greg Biffle currently drives the #16 car in the Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Martin Truex Jr. drives the #56 car in the Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
The car is being displayed at the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
No. Bill Elliott has never driven the number 8 car in any of the Nascar Series.