Overview
- Cleetus McFarland, announced Monday by Richard Childress Racing, will drive the No. 33 Chevrolet in the Sports Illustrated Resorts 250 at Nashville Superspeedway on May 30 with Tommy’s Express as the primary sponsor.
- NASCAR has not cleared him for pack‑racing superspeedways, with executive John Probst saying officials want more short‑track results before a Talladega approval.
- McFarland said he will lean on RCR training and extensive simulator time to prepare for the Nashville event.
- His recent resume includes a 32nd-place O’Reilly debut at Rockingham after a spin, a fourth in the ARCA East race that same weekend, and an ARCA Kansas run cut short by an engine failure while running inside the top ten.
- The Nashville start on the 1.33‑mile concrete oval gives him another intermediate‑track audition to log clean laps and build the case for future superspeedway clearance.