NASCAR has updated its r🧸ulebook so the Cup Series can welcome as many as 41 cars in case an Open Exemp💦tion Provision entry is granted.

The OEP system was announced before the start 🍌of the 2025 season, creating a new provisional starti🔯ng berth for top-class drivers with established credentials.

Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves was able to race at Daytona after Trackhouse Racing applied for an OEP under his name and satisfied the ♋required 90-day notice period requirement.

Previously, the rules stated t🐭hat if an OEP entry is grated, the size of the grid will be capped at 40 ent꧑ries.

However, ahead of this week’s race at Las Vegas, NASCAR issued a bulletin to Section 5.1.Fജ under the “Entry Guidelines”, stating that: “The Open Exemption Provisional will be applied only if more than 40 vehicles are qualifying for the Event. In that case, it will be applied regardless of the vehicle’s Qualifying position, and the starting field will be 41.”

The OEP entry would not be eligible for points or prize money as the 41st entry on the gr𓆉id. However, if there🀅 are 40 or fewer cars on the grid, the OEP entry would both be awarded points and a share of the prize pot.

As wa꧒s theꦍ case before, only one OEP entry is eligible per event.

NASCAR further stated that it “has full discretion ꦬto deem certain Event♚s ineligible for the OEP.”