{"id":222282,"date":"2025-10-18T13:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/222282\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T13:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:21:07","slug":"full-qualifying-order-with-5-lineup-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/222282\/","title":{"rendered":"Full qualifying order (with 5 lineup changes)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The middle race of the round of 8 is scheduled to take place this Sunday afternoon at Talladega Superspeedway, and seven drivers have a chance to punch their ticket to the NASCAR Cup Series Championship 4 at Phoenix Raceway to join Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin, who won this past weekend’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Saturday afternoon’s qualifying session for Sunday’s 188-lap YellaWood 500 around the four-turn, 2.66-mile (4.281-kilometer) high-banked Lincoln, Alabama oval is set to utilize the standard qualifying format for superspeedways.<\/p>\n

The full 40-car qualifying order is set to be determined using the new two-variable formula that NASCAR introduced ahead of the 2025 season to replace the four-variable metric which was used from 2020 to 2024. A full breakdown of the current formula can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Because Sunday’s race is a playoff race, however, the eight drivers still in championship contention are not factored into the formula until the other 32 are slotted in, guaranteeing them slots 33 through 40 in the order.<\/p>\n

Unlike for races at intermediate tracks, however, there is actually a second round shootout for the pole position at Talladega. The fastest 10 drivers from the first round are set to advance to the second round to battle for the top spot in Sunday’s starting lineup.<\/p>\n

Here’s a look at the full 40-car order for Saturday’s qualifying session ahead of Sunday’s YellaWood 500 at Talladega.<\/p>\n

NASCAR playoff qualifying order at Talladega<\/p>\n

1 – Anthony Alfredo, No. 62 Beard Motorsports Chevrolet
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2 – Casey Mears, No. 66 Garage 66 Ford
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3 – Austin Hill, No. 33 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet
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4 – Ty Dillon, No. 10 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet
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5 – Cody Ware, No. 51 Rick Ware Racing Ford
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6 – B.J. McLeod, No. 78 Live Fast Motorsports Chevrolet
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7 – Cole Custer, No. 41 Haas Factory Team Ford
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8 – Ty Gibbs, No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
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9 – Carson Hocevar, No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet
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10 – Justin Haley, No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet
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11 – John Hunter Nemechek, No. 42 Legacy Motor Club Toyota
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12 – Shane van Gisbergen, No. 88 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
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13 – Zane Smith, No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford
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14 – Todd Gilliland, No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford
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15 – Josh Berry, No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford
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16 – Riley Herbst, No. 35 23XI Racing Toyota
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17 – Daniel Suarez, No. 99 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
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18 – Austin Dillon, No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet
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19 – A.J. Allmendinger, No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet
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20 – Ross Chastain, No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
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21 – Noah Gragson, No. 4 Front Row Motorsports Ford
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22 – Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 47 Hyak Motorsports Chevrolet
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23 – Bubba Wallace, No. 23 23XI Racing Toyota
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24 – Erik Jones, No. 43 Legacy Motor Club Toyota
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25 – Michael McDowell, No. 71 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet
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26 – Chris Buescher, No. 17 RFK Racing Ford
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27 – Brad Keselowski, No. 6 RFK Racing Ford
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28 – Kyle Busch, No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet
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29 – Austin Cindric, No. 2 Team Penske Ford
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30 – Ryan Preece, No. 60 RFK Racing Ford
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31 – Alex Bowman, No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
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32 – Tyler Reddick, No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota
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33 – Ryan Blaney, No. 12 Team Penske Ford
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34 – William Byron, No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
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35 – Chase Elliott, No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
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36 – Joey Logano, No. 22 Team Penske Ford
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37 – Chase Briscoe, No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
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38 – Christopher Bell, No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
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39 – Kyle Larson, No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
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40 – Denny Hamlin, No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota<\/p>\n

NBC is set to provide live coverage of the YellaWood 500 from Talladega Superspeedway beginning at 2:00 p.m. ET this Sunday, October 19. If you’ve yet to begin a free trial of FuboTV, do so now<\/a> and don’t miss any of the action!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The middle race of the round of 8 is scheduled to take place this Sunday afternoon at Talladega…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-222282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}