COTA starting lineup and practice results for the NASCAR Cup Series<\/p>\n
NASCAR Cup Series drivers will take the green flag tomorrow in Austin, Texas. Cars are rolling to the Circuit of the Americas road course for a round of practice and qualifying to set the starting grid.<\/p>\n
View NASCAR qualifying results from COTA below.<\/p>\n
NASCAR Menu NASCAR TV Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n The field is split into two qualifying groups. The times are then combined to set the starting lineup.<\/p>\n Tyler Reddick will start from the pole position in tomorrow\u2019s race. He turned a laptime at 1:37.760.<\/p>\n COTA Pos | Driver | Best Time<\/p>\n 1. Tyler Reddick 2. Ross Chastain 3. Chase Briscoe 4. Ryan Blaney 5. Chase Elliott 6. Michael McDowell 7. AJ Allmendinger 8. Christopher Bell 9. Ty Gibbs 10. William Byron 11. Zane Smith 12. Carson Hocevar 13. Shane van Gisbergen 14. Chris Buescher 15. Kyle Larson 16. Alex Bowman 17. Todd Gilliland 18. Cole Custer 19. Denny Hamlin 20. Joey Logano 21. Ty Dillon 22. Josh Berry 23. Daniel Suarez 24. Bubba Wallace 25. Connor Zilisch 26. Brad Keselowski 27. Jesse Love 28. Austin Cindric 29. Ryan Preece 30. Kyle Busch 31. John Hunter Nemechek 32. Riley Herbst 33. Austin Dillon 34. Ricky Stenhouse Jr 35. Noah Gragson 36. Erik Jones 37. Cody Ware COTA Pos | Driver | Best Time<\/p>\n 1. Michael McDowell 2. Ryan Blaney 3. Connor Zilisch 4. Kyle Larson 5. Todd Gilliland 6. Kyle Busch 7. Alex Bowman 8. Daniel Suarez 9. Cole Custer 10. Carson Hocevar 11. Jesse Love 12. AJ Allmendinger 13. Chase Elliott 14. Austin Cindric 15. Zane Smith 16. William Byron 17. John Hunter Nemechek 18. Josh Berry 19. Tyler Reddick 20. Shane van Gisbergen 21. Ross Chastain 22. Ricky Stenhouse Jr 23. Bubba Wallace 24. Chris Buescher 25. Erik Jones 26. Chase Briscoe 27. Christopher Bell 28. Austin Dillon 29. Riley Herbst 30. Brad Keselowski 31. Ty Dillon 32. Noah Gragson 33. Denny Hamlin 34. Joey Logano 35. Ty Gibbs 36. Ryan Preece 37. Cody Ware Links<\/p>\n Circuit of the Americas<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COTA starting lineup and practice results for the NASCAR Cup Series NASCAR Cup Series drivers will take the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1223,10533,1037,1038,71924,73829,17836,73830,37700,71928,71929,71938,61067,73831,72425,73832,73557,27,72426],"class_list":{"0":"post-184644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-austin-texas","12":"tag-austin-tx","13":"tag-circuit-of-the-americas","14":"tag-cota","15":"tag-cup-series","16":"tag-kyle-larson","17":"tag-lineup","18":"tag-michael-mcdowell","19":"tag-nascar","20":"tag-nascar-cup","21":"tag-nascar-cup-series","22":"tag-ncs","23":"tag-qualifying","24":"tag-ryan-blaney","25":"tag-shane-van-gisbergen","26":"tag-starting-grid","27":"tag-starting-lineup","28":"tag-texas","29":"tag-tyler-reddick"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Cup: Prac\/Qual<\/a><\/p>\n
Starting Lineup
March 1, 2026
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Practice Results
February 28, 2026
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