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September 17, 2025

NASCAR Cup Series qualifying order for New Hampshire playoff race


The NASCAR Cup Series begins the Round of 12 in the 2025 playoffs with the Mobil 1 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Qualifying at the 1.058-miler begins at 4:10 p.m. ET on Saturday (truTV, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). A 60-minute practice split into two 25-minute groups with a 10-minute break in between is at 3 p.m. ET on Saturday, also on truTV.

QUALIFYING ORDER: Cup Series | Truck Series

The qualifying order below is determined via a metric that combines the previous race finish by owner (70%) and current owner points position (30%).

Saturday’s qualifying session will be one round and one lap.

The race itself will be on Sunday (2 p.m. ET, USA Network, HBO Max, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, NBC Sports App).

MORE: How to watch NASCAR on NBC, USA | Driver Cams on HBO Max | Weekend schedule

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

POS.CAR NO.DRIVERSMETRIC SCOREGROUP
199Daniel Suárez34.31
241Cole Custer33.01
316AJ Allmendinger32,71
421Josh Berry32.11
551Cody Ware31.11
610Ty Dillon28.51
74Noah Gragson26.31
834Todd Gilliland26.11
947Ricky Stenhouse Jr.24.11
103Austin Dillon23.81
1135Riley Herbst #23.11
1288Shane van Gisbergen #22.71
1343Erik Jones20.91
1460Ryan Preece20.11
1571Michael McDowell19.71
167Justin Haley18.11
178Kyle Busch17.51
1842John Hunter Nemechek16.41
1917Chris Buescher12.82
2054Ty Gibbs12.72
2177Carson Hocevar12.12
2238Zane Smith10.22
2348Alex Bowman9.52
246Brad Keselowski7.42
259Chase Elliott (P)28.72
2623Bubba Wallace (P)26.22
272Austin Cindric (P)23.72
285Kyle Larson (P)23.32
2911Denny Hamlin (P)22.02
301Ross Chastain (P)16.62
3145Tyler Reddick (P)14.12
3224William Byron (P)9.02
3319Chase Briscoe (P)8.12
3422Joey Logano (P)6.52
3512Ryan Blaney (P)4.32
3620Christopher Bell (P)1.92