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July 23, 2025

NASCAR Cup Series qualifying order for Indianapolis Motor Speedway


The NASCAR Cup Series will tackle Round 5 of the 2025 In-Season Challenge this weekend, with the Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway being the venue on Sunday (2 p.m. ET, TNT Sports/truTV, HBO Max, IMS Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

QUALIFYING ORDER: Cup Series | Xfinity Series | Craftsman Truck Series

All 39 cars will have a chance to post a qualifying time Saturday (2:40 p.m. ET, truTV, IMS Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Saturday’s qualifying session will be one lap and one round.

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
162* Jesse Love(i)42.51
266* Josh Bilicki(i)41.01
378* Katherine Legge39.81
451Cody Ware36.01
54* Noah Gragson32.31
677Carson Hocevar32.01
716AJ Allmendinger31.61
841Cole Custer30.51
988Shane van Gisbergen #28.81
1035* Riley Herbst #27.31
1134* Todd Gilliland27.11
1299Daniel Suárez26.91
131Ross Chastain26.71
1421Josh Berry26.21
1543Erik Jones24.91
1610Ty Dillon23.01
1747Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.23.01
1838* Zane Smith22.61
1924William Byron22.31
207Justin Haley21.21
2142John Hunter Nemechek21.02
223Austin Dillon18.92
2360Ryan Preece17.52
242Austin Cindric15.72
256Brad Keselowski15.12
2671Michael McDowell14.52
2720Christopher Bell14.42
2822Joey Logano13.12
298Kyle Busch12.52
3045* Tyler Reddick9.92
3117Chris Buescher9.32
3223* Bubba Wallace8.82
3354Ty Gibbs8.62
3412Ryan Blaney7.72
3548Alex Bowman4.82
369Chase Elliott4.52
375Kyle Larson4.02
3819Chase Briscoe3.82
3911Denny Hamlin1.62