NASCAR has set the starting lineup for the 2026 Daytona 500, which pole-sitter Kyle Busch will lead to the green flag in search of his first victory in the Cup Series season opener.<\/p>\n
Chase Briscoe will start second.<\/p>\n
After a win in each of Thursday night\u2019s qualifying races, Joey Logano (starting third) and Chase Elliott (fourth) will comprise the second row.<\/p>\n
William Byron, who is trying to become the first driver with three consecutive Daytona 500 victories, will start 39th in the 41-car field.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the NASCAR starting lineup for the 2026 Daytona 500:<\/p>\n
ROW 1<\/p>\n
1. Kyle Busch, No. 8 Chevrolet
2. Chase Briscoe, No. 19 Toyota<\/p>\n
ROW 2<\/p>\n
3. Joey Logano, No. 22 Ford
4, Chase Elliott, No. 9 Chevrolet<\/p>\n
ROW 3<\/p>\n
5. Ryan Blaney, No. 12 Ford
6, Carson Hocevar, No. 77 Chevrolet<\/p>\n
ROW 4<\/p>\n
7. Austin Dillon, No. 3 Chevrolet
8. Kyle Larson, No. 5 Chevrolet<\/p>\n
ROW 5<\/p>\n
9. Brad Keselowski, No. 6 Ford
10. Michael McDowell, No. 71 Chevrolet<\/p>\n
ROW 6<\/p>\n
11. John Hunter Nemechek, No. 42 Toyota
12. Christopher Bell, No. 20 Toyota<\/p>\n
ROW 7<\/p>\n
13. Shane Van Gisbergen, No. 97 Chevrolet
14. Josh Berry, No. 21 Ford<\/p>\n
ROW 8<\/p>\n
15. Daniel Suarez, No. 7 Chevrolet
16. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 47 Chevrolet<\/p>\n
ROW 9<\/p>\n
17. Casey Mears, No. 66 Ford
18 Todd Gilliland, No. 34 Ford<\/p>\n
ROW 10<\/p>\n
19. Ryan Preece, No. 60 Ford
20. Ty Gibbs, No. 54 Toyota<\/p>\n
ROW 11<\/p>\n
21. Alex Bowman, No. 48 Chevrolet
22. Denny Hamlin, No. 11 Toyota<\/p>\n
ROW 12<\/p>\n
23. Cole Custer, No. 41 Chevrolet
24. Erik Jones, No. 43 Toyota<\/p>\n
ROW 13<\/p>\n
25. Noah Gragson, No. 4 Ford
26. Tyler Reddick, No. 45 Toyota<\/p>\n
ROW 14<\/p>\n
27. Bubba Wallace, No. 23 Toyota
28. Riley Herbst, No. 35 Toyota<\/p>\n
ROW 15<\/p>\n
29. Corey Heim, No. 67 Toyota
30. Zane Smith, No. 38 Ford<\/p>\n
ROW 16<\/p>\n
31. Jimmie Johnson, No. 84 Toyota
32. Connor Zilisch, No. 88 Chevrolet<\/p>\n
ROW 17<\/p>\n
33. Cody Ware, No. 51 Chevrolet
34. Ty Dillon, No. 10 Chevrolet<\/p>\n
ROW 18<\/p>\n
35. AJ Allmendinger, No. 16 Chevrolet
36. Austin Cindric, No. 2 Ford<\/p>\n
ROW 19<\/p>\n
37. Ross Chastain, No. 1 Chevrolet
38. Anthony Alfredo, No. 62 Chevrolet<\/p>\n
ROW 20<\/p>\n
39. William Byron, No. 24 Chevrolet
40. Justin Allgaier, No. 40 Chevrolet<\/p>\n
ROW 21<\/p>\n
41. Chris Buescher, No. 17 Ford<\/p>\n
Failed to qualify: Chandler Smith (No. 36 Ford), JJ Yeley (No. 44 Chevrolet), BJ McLeod (No. 78 Chevrolet), Corey LaJoie (No. 99 Ford)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR has set the starting lineup for the 2026 Daytona 500, which pole-sitter Kyle Busch will lead to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-472078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472078","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=472078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}