Corey Heim’s Return Highlights 39-Car Cracker Barrel 400 Entry List

On Tuesday afternoon, NASCAR released the preliminary entry list for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville Superspeedway, and the entry list contains 39 cars, which will make the trip to the track in Lebanon, just outside of the Music City.

There are no real surprises among the 36 Chartered entries, which compete each week in the NASCAR Cup Series, but there will be three “Open” entries among the notables.

The most notable among the “Open” cars will be the return of Corey Heim behind the wheel of the No. 67 Toyota Camry XSE for 23XI Racing. Heim will carry primary sponsorship from Chief’s, a Nashville bar owned by country music star Eric Church, on his race car.

At Kansas Speedway, Heim’s most recent NASCAR Cup Series outing with 23XI Racing, the driver recorded an eye-opening 13th-place result. Heim, 22, is a standout in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series ranks, and he is already up to four victories through the opening 11 races of the 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season.

The young racer from Georgia already has 15 victories in just 75 career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series starts.

JJ Yeley will return to the No. 44 NY Racing Team’s Open entry Chevrolet a week after Derek Kraus piloted the car to a 32nd-place finish in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Yeley will have primary sponsorship from Fanatics Sportsbook on his race car.

Rounding out the lineup for the Open entries in the field this weekend will be Chad Finchum, a Tennessee native, who will once again pilot the No. 66 Garage 66 Ford Mustang Dark Horse this weekend. Finchum will have sponsorship from Aires as he makes his second NASCAR Cup Series start of the season.

# indicates Rookie of the Year contender
* indicates “Open” entry
(i) indicates driver ineligible to score points

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