NASCAR team chief Kellie Earnhardt Miller has expressed ambitions for her team to race regularly in the Cup Series one day.
Earnhardt Miller, the daughter of the late great Dale Earnhardt, is a co-owner of Xfinity Series outfit JR Motorsports, along with her brother, former Cup Series star in his own right, Dale Earnhardt Jr.
JR Motorsports have enjoyed tremendous success at Xfinity Series level since their creation in 2005, winning 105 races, four championships, and 59 pole positions.
The team even qualified for and achieved a top 10 finish on their first attempt at Cup Series racing in 2025, with Justin Allgaier coming home ninth at the Daytona 500
Earnhardt: We're always looking at opportunities
Recently, the team confirmed that they will be taking part in the Great American Race once again in 2026, with Allgaier once again the man behind the wheel.
JR Motorsports' Cup Series ambitions do not stop there though, with Earnhardt Miller confirming the team are always looking at opportunities to race higher up.
"I think everybody's kind of in the same boat right now, just watching to see how things play out with the lawsuit and where things head before doing anything crazy,” Earnhardt Miller told SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
“Always still looking at opportunities and what that looks like and you know, the Daytona 500, you race your way in, its just a race that makes sense where you can go down there, and it’s the biggest race of the season and the most opportunity financially to come out of there in a good place with a partner, and with sponsorship and with the way the race is.
“So, that one just makes a lot of sense.”
JR Motorsports want to be Cup racing
Earnhardt continued: “We'll have to figure out if anything else will make sense and how this goes and just continue to watch the landscape in the Cup Series, what the charters are doing and all that, see where we end up.
“We’re happy with our Xfinity program, we got another four full-time cars for that next year and another part-time gig with some of the Trackhouse drivers as well.
“What we’re doing business-wise is great. Would we like to be Cup racing? We certainly would. It’s something from a legacy standpoint and everything that we’ve built, I think it would be really cool for us to experience.
“But the right opportunity just hasn't come forward yet.
