 However, by 2016, it seems that NASCAR has either quietly removed this rule or allowed teams to race with a split-side scheme as long as they got the permission to do so, as seen with John Hunter Nemechek's 8 truck in the 2016 American Ethanol E15 225 and both the 3 and 31 cars of RDV Compétition during the 2016 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series.Teams apply to NASCAR for the use of a car number, and pay for the rights to the number's likeness.NASCAR legally owns and controls all rights to car numbers.