{"id":490284,"date":"2026-02-21T16:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/490284\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T16:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:41:08","slug":"nascar-cup-series-qualifying-full-starting-lineup-at-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/490284\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Cup Series qualifying, full starting lineup at Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR is set to open up the NASCAR Cup Series season with back-to-back superspeedway races for the third year in a row, with Sunday’s Autotrader 400 at EchoPark Speedway (formerly Atlanta Motor Speedway) set to follow this past Sunday’s Daytona 500<\/a> at Daytona International Speedway.<\/p>\n

The four-turn, 1.54-mile (2.478-kilometer) Hampton, Georgia oval has been considered a superspeedway, along with Daytona and Talladega Superspeedway, since it was repaved and reconfigured following its two races on the 2021 calendar.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s 260-lap race is set to be Atlanta’s ninth as a superspeedway.<\/p>\n

The qualifying order was set by the metric NASCAR introduced before the 2025 season, which can be found in more detail here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As is the case on superspeedways, there are set to be two rounds of single-car qualifying, with the second round shootout for the pole position featuring the fastest 10 drivers from the first round.<\/p>\n

Follow along with our qualifying updates from Atlanta.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Qualifying has been canceled due to inclement weather. The full starting lineup has been set by the metric<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NASCAR Cup Series starting lineup at Atlanta<\/p>\n

1 – Tyler Reddick, No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota
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2 – Joey Logano, No. 22 Team Penske Ford
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3 – Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 47 Hyak Motorsports Chevrolet
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4 – Chase Elliott, No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
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5 – Brad Keselowski, No. 6 RFK Racing Ford
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6 – Zane Smith, No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford
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7 – Chris Buescher, No. 17 RFK Racing Ford
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8 – Riley Herbst, No. 35 23XI Racing Toyota
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9 – Bubba Wallace, No. 23 23XI Racing Toyota
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10 – Josh Berry, No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford
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11 – Noah Gragson, No. 4 Front Row Motorsports Ford
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12 – Daniel Suarez, No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet
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13 – William Byron, No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
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14 – Kyle Busch, No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet
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15 – Carson Hocevar, No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet
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16 – Kyle Larson, No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
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17 – Ty Dillon, No. 10 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet
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18 – Cody Ware, No. 51 Rick Ware Racing Chevrolet
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19 – A.J. Allmendinger, No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet
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20 – Michael McDowell, No. 71 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet
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21 – Ross Chastain, No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
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22 – Ryan Blaney, No. 12 Team Penske Ford
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23 – Erik Jones, No. 43 Legacy Motor Club Toyota
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24 – John Hunter Nemechek, No. 42 Legacy Motor Club Toyota
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25 – Ty Gibbs, No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
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26 – Ryan Preece, No. 60 RFK Racing Ford
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27 – Cole Custer, No. 41 Haas Factory Team Chevrolet
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28 – Shane van Gisbergen, No. 97 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
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29 – Denny Hamlin, No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
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30 – Austin Cindric, No. 2 Team Penske Ford
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31 – Connor Zilisch, No. 88 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
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32 – Christopher Bell, No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
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33 – Austin Dillon, No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet
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34 – Chase Briscoe, No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
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35 – Todd Gilliland, No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford
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36 – Alex Bowman, No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
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37 – B.J. McLeod, No. 78 Live Fast Motorsports Chevrolet
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38 – J.J. Yeley, No. 44 NY Racing Team Chevrolet<\/p>\n

Fox is set to provide live coverage of the Autotrader 400 from EchoPark Speedway (Atlanta) beginning at 3:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, February 22. Start a free trial of FuboTV today<\/a> and don’t miss the second race of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR is set to open up the NASCAR Cup Series season with back-to-back superspeedway races for the third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-490284","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\/490284","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=490284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}