A Nascar owner can have up to four race teams competing in each race. Each race team will have a designated driver for that certain car number for that weekend.
There are teams that use multiple drivers throughout the season.
For example, Michael Waltrip Racing fields three cars, (#15 - Clint Bowyer), (#56 - Martin Truex Jr.) and (#55 - Mark Martin, Brian Vickers and Michael Waltrip).
In a Nascar Cup and Nationwide Series race there are 43 drivers. In a Nascar Truck Series race there are 36 starting drivers.
43 drivers are in one Nascar Sprint Cup Series race.
There are a maximum of 40 drivers who can compete in a Nationwide Series race.
For the last ten races of the season the drivers in the Chase are the only ones to compete for the Cup, but all the drivers that normally run in NASCAR races are eligible to compete...and in 2014, non-Chase drivers won Chase races.
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Unlimited can qualify, but only 43 can race.
The most drivers who could race in a NASCAR race is 43 right now. But back in the 40's and 50's it was about 60.
No, they do not need a drivers license to drive a NASCAR race car.
Because just starting the race pays, I think, 100K.
There have been many drivers since Nascar started that have never won a race.
Like any other decade, there are many Nascar drivers who have not won a race in their career.
The Nascar Cup Series fields 43 drivers at every race they go to on the schedule.