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SHR closure leads to a seat shakeup in NASCAR. A look at who is driving where in 2025

FILE - Chase Briscoe celebrates in Victory Lane with his son Brooks after winning a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Darlington Raceway, Sept. 1, 2024, in Darlington, S.C. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley, File)
FILE - Chase Briscoe celebrates in Victory Lane with his son Brooks after winning a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Darlington Raceway, Sept. 1, 2024, in Darlington, S.C. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley, File) FILE - Chase Briscoe celebrates in Victory Lane with his son Brooks after winning a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Darlington Raceway, Sept. 1, 2024, in Darlington, S.C. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley, File)

By JENNA FRYER / AP Auto Racing Writer 4 min read

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — There won’t be a Stewart-Haas Racing in NASCAR next season now that Hall of Famer Tony Stewart has left the series and the four-car organization he co-owned with Formula 1 team owner Gene Haas.

There also won’t be a JTG Daugherty Racing team, but that’s merely a rebrand under new ownership of the one-car organization that won Talladega in 2024 with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. There was no driver change for the No. 47 Chevrolet under what is now known as Hyak Motorsports.

But SHR? Well, that put four drivers on the free-agent market and the future of three of its vaunted charters in limbo. The team will now be called Haas Factory — closer to what Haas F1 is known as — and Cole Custer returns from the Xfinity Series to NASCAR’s top level to drive the car.

The existing SHR drivers have taken seats all across the grid.

Chase Briscoe, the only SHR driver to win a Cup race in 2024 and make the playoffs, probably had the softest landing. He was snapped up by Joe Gibbs Racing when Martin Truex Jr. decided to scale back to part-time racing in 2025.