Daytona International Speedway started the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series regular season back in February with the Daytona 500, and it is set to bring an end to the regular season this Saturday night with the Coke Zero Sugar 400.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s race is scheduled to be a 160-lap race around the four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) high-banked Daytona Beach, Florida oval, and it is set to determine which two drivers are set to join the 14 already locked into the four-round, 10-race playoffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n There have been a total of five driver lineup changes<\/a> since this past weekend’s race at Richmond Raceway, all among non-chartered (open) entries. This week’s entry list is full but not overflowing, meaning that all 40 drivers on it are set to qualify for the race.<\/p>\n The qualifying order for Friday’s qualifying session was determined by the new two-variable metric which NASCAR introduced over the offseason to replace the more complicated four-variable formula that had been utilized since 2020.<\/p>\n A full breakdown of the current metric can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n There are no qualifying groups this weekend, but because Daytona is a superspeedway, a two-round qualifying format is set to be used. Each driver is set to make a single-lap qualifying attempt in the opening round, and the fastest 10 drivers are set to advance to the second round to battle for the pole position.<\/p>\n Here’s a look at the order for the 40-car opening round of qualifying.<\/p>\n Full NASCAR Cup Series qualifying order at Daytona<\/p>\n 1 – Joey Gase, No. 44 NY Racing Team Chevrolet NBC is set to provide live coverage of the Coke Zero Sugar 400 from Daytona International Speedway to wrap up the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series regular season beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET this Saturday, August 23. If you have yet to begin a free trial of FuboTV, do so now<\/a> and don’t miss it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daytona International Speedway started the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series regular season back in February with the Daytona 500,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-88661","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\/88661","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=88661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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2 – Casey Mears, No. 66 Garage 66 Ford
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3 – B.J McLeod, No. 78 Live Fast Motorsports Chevrolet
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4 – Justin Haley, No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet
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5 – Austin Hill, No. 33 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet
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6 – Cody Ware, No. 51 Rick Ware Racing Ford
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7 – John Hunter Nemechek, No. 42 Legacy Motor Club Toyota
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8 – Riley Herbst, No. 35 23XI Racing Toyota
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9 – Noah Gragson, No. 4 Front Row Motorsports Ford
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10 – Ryan Preece, No. 60 RFK Racing Ford
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11 – Chase Elliott, No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
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12 – Cole Custer, No. 41 Haas Factory Team Ford
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13 – Todd Gilliland, No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford
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14 – Tyler Reddick, No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota
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15 – Erik Jones, No. 43 Legacy Motor Club Toyota
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16 – Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 47 Hyak Motorsports Chevrolet
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17 – Chris Buescher, No. 17 RFK Racing Ford
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18 – Ty Dillon, No. 10 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet
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19 – Bubba Wallace, No. 23 23XI Racing Toyota
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20 – A.J. Allmendinger, No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet
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21 – Michael McDowell, No. 71 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet
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22 – Ross Chastain, No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
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23 – Ty Gibbs, No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
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24 – Shane van Gisbergen, No. 88 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
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25 – Carson Hocevar, No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet
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26 – Christopher Bell, No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
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27 – Kyle Busch, No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet
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28 – Zane Smith, No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford
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29 – Daniel Suarez, No. 99 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
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30 – Josh Berry, No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford
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31 – Brad Keselowski, No. 6 RFK Racing Ford
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32 – Chase Briscoe, No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
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33 – William Byron, No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
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34 – Austin Dillon, No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet
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35 – Denny Hamlin, No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota
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36 – Austin Cindric, No. 2 Team Penske Ford
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37 – Joey Logano, No. 22 Team Penske Ford
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38 – Kyle Larson, No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
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39 – Alex Bowman, No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
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40 – Ryan Blaney, No. 12 Team Penske Ford<\/p>\n