Joe Gibbs Racing drivers will be able to compete in more dirt racing events moving forward. On Monday, The Athletic's Jeff Gluck reported that Joe Gibbs Racing will lift dirt racing restrictions for its NASCAR Cup Series drivers.

For the first time in a few years, Joe Gibbs Racing drivers like Christopher Bell are going to be able to go dirt racing again. Coach Gibbs has lifted his restriction on the more risky sprint car races for his NASCAR drivers.

Joe Gibbs is calling an audible. After more than two years, the football-coach-turned-NASCAR-team-owner will largely lift the restrictions that prohibited his Cup Series drivers from extracurricular racing on dirt.

Joe Gibbs Racing is set to lift a team restriction that previously disallowed its NASCAR Cup Series drivers to compete in extracurricular racing on dirt and other disciplines. The decision was first reported Monday by The Athletic and later confirmed to NASCAR.

Joe Gibbs, the former football coach who owns a NASCAR racing team, is giving his drivers more options. The racing team confirmed Monday that it will have a process allowing drivers to request competing outside the NASCAR Cup Series on dirt tracks and in other forms of motorsports -- something Gibbs has restricted.