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July 9, 2025

NASCAR Cup Series qualifying order for Sonoma Raceway


The NASCAR Cup Series will tackle Round 3 of the 2025 In-Season Challenge this weekend, with the rolling hills of Sonoma Raceway being the venue of choice on Sunday (3:30 p.m. ET, TNT Sports/truTV, HBO Max, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

QUALIFYING ORDER: Cup Series | Xfinity Series

All 37 cars will have a chance to post a qualifying time Saturday (2:40 p.m. ET, truTV, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Saturday’s qualifying session will consist of one round, split into two 20-minute groups. The groups below are determined via a metric that combines the previous race finish by owner (70%) and current owner points position (30%).

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# denotes series rookie
(i) denotes ineligible for driver points

Pos.Car No.DriverMetric ScoreGroup
134Todd Gilliland35.61
26Brad Keselowski34.31
341Cole Custer33.31
43Austin Dillon33.01
54Noah Gragson30.91
677Carson Hocevar30.81
721Josh Berry30.41
871Michael McDowell29.31
947Ricky Stenhouse Jr.29.21
1051Cody Ware29.01
1199Daniel Suárez29.01
1224William Byron28.31
137Justin Haley24.71
1478Katherine Legge (i)24.41
1510Ty Dillon23.61
1623Bubba Wallace23.51
172Austin Cindric23.41
1843Erik Jones22.91
1935Riley Herbst #22.41
2019Chase Briscoe18.82
2120Christopher Bell18.62
2238Zane Smith17.02
2342John Hunter Nemechek16.52
2417Chris Buescher15.92
259Chase Elliott11.82
2622Joey Logano11.32
2712Ryan Blaney10.52
285Kyle Larson10.02
291Ross Chastain9.42
3060Ryan Preece9.12
3116AJ Allmendinger9.02
3288Shane van Gisbergen #8.82
338Kyle Busch8.62
3448Alex Bowman8.62
3554Ty Gibbs7.12
3611Denny Hamlin4.02
3745Tyler Reddick3.62