THOMASVILLE, N.C. – Rick Ware Racing has added Joey Gase to its stable of drivers for Saturday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series event at Daytona Int’l Speedway.

Gase will pilot the No. 53 entry, with Connected Claim Services, Action Restoration, TrackDown and EFX Corp as sponsors for the Coke Zero Sugar 400.

“We are very excited at RWR to be adding another patriotic scheme to our No. 53 for this weekend’s race at Daytona. Joey Gase is a fine driver, and always does great at the superspeedways and I am expecting the same out of Joey this weekend,” said team owner Rick Ware. “We are also excited to have Connected Claim Services, EFX Corp, Action Restoration, and TrackDown joining us this weekend, which plans to be a very fun and exciting weekend at Daytona. It speaks volumes about our team to have such quality companies represented on our cars. Our teams have experienced some of our best finishes at Daytona and we are all looking to build on that this weekend.”

“I’m very excited and thankful to be racing under the lights the 4th of July weekend at Daytona International Raceway in the Cup Series,” said Gase. “This is by far one of my favorite race weekends and the superspeedways are tracks I love racing at, because no matter if you are on a power house team or a small underfunded team everyone has a chance to win. I also really have to thank Rick for this opportunity and all of our partners for making this happen. If it wasn’t for each and every one of them we would not be able to race this weekend.”