{"id":504493,"date":"2026-02-28T04:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504493\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T04:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:12:10","slug":"cota-lineup-february-2026-nascar-oreilly-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504493\/","title":{"rendered":"COTA Lineup: February 2026 (NASCAR O&#8217;Reilly Series)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Series qualifying and practice results from Circuit of the Americas<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series drivers are on track in Austin, Texas. It\u2019s practice and qualkifying ahead of tomorrow\u2019s race at Circuit of the Americas (COTA).<\/p>\n<p>View the COTA starting lineup for the NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Series below.<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR Menu<br \/>Truck:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews.co\/2026\/02\/27\/st-petersburg-lineup-february-2026-nascar-truck-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prac\/Qual<\/a><br \/>O\u2019Reilly: <a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews.co\/2026\/02\/27\/cota-practice-results-february-27-2026-nascar-oreilly-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prac\/Qual<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews.co\/2026\/02\/25\/nascar-tv-schedule-for-cota-st-petersburg-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR TV Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shane van Gisbergen suffers a mechanical failure in practice. The team is changing out parts ahead of qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>Connor Zilisch will start from the pole position. He turned a laptime at 97.740 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Circuit of the Americas<br \/>Starting Grid<br \/>February 27, 2026<br \/>NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Series<\/p>\n<p>Pos | Driver | Best Time<\/p>\n<p>1. Connor Zilisch<br \/>97.740<\/p>\n<p>2. Shane van Gisbergen<br \/>97.949<\/p>\n<p>3. Austin Hill<br \/>98.359<\/p>\n<p>4. Brandon Jones<br \/>98.448<\/p>\n<p>5. Justin Allgaier<br \/>98.562<\/p>\n<p>6. Carson Kvapil<br \/>98.572<\/p>\n<p>7. Brent Crews<br \/>98.670<\/p>\n<p>8. Sam Mayer<br \/>98.717<\/p>\n<p>9. Sheldon Creed<br \/>98.786<\/p>\n<p>10. Sammy Smith<br \/>98.863<\/p>\n<p>11. Jesse Love<br \/>98.887<\/p>\n<p>12. Corey Day<br \/>98.900<\/p>\n<p>13. Austin Green<br \/>98.903<\/p>\n<p>14. Taylor Gray<br \/>99.021<\/p>\n<p>15. William Sawalich<br \/>99.393<\/p>\n<p>16. Anthony Alfredo<br \/>99.429<\/p>\n<p>17. Preston Pardus<br \/>99.483<\/p>\n<p>18. Ryan Sieg<br \/>99.542<\/p>\n<p>19. Rajah Caruth<br \/>99.544<\/p>\n<p>20. Nick Sanchez<br \/>99.546<\/p>\n<p>21. Ross Chastain<br \/>99.586<\/p>\n<p>22. Sage Karam<br \/>99.947<\/p>\n<p>23. Harrison Burton<br \/>100.024<\/p>\n<p>24. Blaine Perkins<br \/>100.140<\/p>\n<p>25. Josh Bilicki<br \/>100.145<\/p>\n<p>26. Brennan Poole<br \/>100.190<\/p>\n<p>27. Dean Thompson<br \/>100.241<\/p>\n<p>28. Alex Labbe<br \/>100.243<\/p>\n<p>29. Parker Retzlaff<br \/>100.431<\/p>\n<p>30. Jeremy Clements<br \/>100.462<\/p>\n<p>31. Lavar Scott<br \/>100.484<\/p>\n<p>32. Patrick Staropoli<br \/>100.702<\/p>\n<p>33. Ryan Ellis<br \/>100.755<\/p>\n<p>34. Jeb Burton<br \/>101.010<\/p>\n<p>35. Kyle Sieg<br \/>101.176<\/p>\n<p>36. JJ Yeley<br \/>101.821<\/p>\n<p>37. Baltazar Leguizamon<br \/>102.536<\/p>\n<p>38. Austin J Hill<br \/>No Time<\/p>\n<p>Failed to qualify<\/p>\n<p>Josh Williams<br \/>100.787<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Gonzalez<br \/>102.020<\/p>\n<p>Circuit of the Americas<br \/>Practice Results<br \/>February 27, 2026<br \/>NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Series<\/p>\n<p>Pos | Driver | Best Time<\/p>\n<p>1. Sam Mayer<br \/>98.706<\/p>\n<p>2. Sheldon Creed<br \/>98.809<\/p>\n<p>3. Austin Green<br \/>98.834<\/p>\n<p>4. Ryan Ellis<br \/>99.254<\/p>\n<p>5. Anthony Alfredo<br \/>99.665<\/p>\n<p>6. Sage Karam<br \/>100.126<\/p>\n<p>7. Shane van Gisbergen<br \/>100.522<\/p>\n<p>8. Carson Kvapil<br \/>100.565<\/p>\n<p>9. Connor Zilisch<br \/>100.570<\/p>\n<p>10. Austin Hill<br \/>100.760<\/p>\n<p>11. Lavar Scott<br \/>100.938<\/p>\n<p>12. Kyle Sieg<br \/>101.020<\/p>\n<p>13. Parker Retzlaff<br \/>101.121<\/p>\n<p>14. Sammy Smith<br \/>101.133<\/p>\n<p>15. Ross Chastain<br \/>101.145<\/p>\n<p>16. Justin Allgaier<br \/>101.175<\/p>\n<p>17. Nicholas Sanchez<br \/>101.440<\/p>\n<p>18. Corey Day<br \/>101.549<\/p>\n<p>19. Josh Bilicki<br \/>101.577<\/p>\n<p>20. William Sawalich<br \/>101.757<\/p>\n<p>21. Taylor Gray<br \/>101.840<\/p>\n<p>22. Alex Labbe<br \/>101.858<\/p>\n<p>23. Brandon Jones<br \/>101.893<\/p>\n<p>24. Rajah Caruth<br \/>101.955<\/p>\n<p>25. Jeb Burton<br \/>101.994<\/p>\n<p>26. Brent Crews<br \/>101.994<\/p>\n<p>27. Preston Pardus<br \/>102.009<\/p>\n<p>28. Harrison Burton<br \/>102.050<\/p>\n<p>29. Blaine Perkins<br \/>102.097<\/p>\n<p>30. Brennan Poole<br \/>102.443<\/p>\n<p>31. Jeremy Clements<br \/>102.446<\/p>\n<p>32. Ryan Sieg<br \/>102.517<\/p>\n<p>33. Ryan Ellis<br \/>102.695<\/p>\n<p>34. Josh Williams<br \/>102.797<\/p>\n<p>35. Patrick Staropoli<br \/>102.802<\/p>\n<p>36. Dean Thompson<br \/>102.902<\/p>\n<p>37. Balthazar Leguizamon<br \/>103.587<\/p>\n<p>38. Austin J Hill<br \/>104.118<\/p>\n<p>39. JJ Yeley<br \/>104.721<\/p>\n<p>40. Tyler Gonzalez<br \/>139.714<\/p>\n<p>Links<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/circuitoftheamericas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Circuit of the Americas<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Series qualifying and practice results from Circuit of the Americas NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series drivers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[106343,21262,201232,49,48,98681,9398,21622,7069,634,109586,109587,109588,6902,7576,15528,7577,201233,9706,82,7072,544,723],"class_list":{"0":"post-504493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-austin-texas","9":"tag-austin-hill","10":"tag-austin-tx","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-circuit-of-the-americas","14":"tag-connor-zilisch","15":"tag-cota","16":"tag-lineup","17":"tag-nascar","18":"tag-nascar-oreilly","19":"tag-nascar-oreilly-auto-parts-series","20":"tag-nascar-oreilly-series","21":"tag-nascar-xfinity","22":"tag-nascar-xfinity-series","23":"tag-nxs","24":"tag-qualifying","25":"tag-shane-van-gisbergan","26":"tag-shane-van-gisbergen","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-starting-lineup","29":"tag-texas","30":"tag-xfinity-series"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504493","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=504493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}