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September 24, 2025

NASCAR Cup Series qualifying order for Kansas playoff race


The NASCAR Cup Series continues the Round of 12 this weekend with its second trip of the season to Kansas Speedway. Teams will practice beginning at 1 p.m. ET on Saturday with qualifying to follow at 2:10 p.m. ET on truTV.

QUALIFYING ORDER: Cup Series | Xfinity 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 is scheduled for Sunday at 3 p.m. ET (USA Network, HBO Max, MRN 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

PositionCar NumberDriverMetric ScoreGroup
144JJ Yeley(i)41.61
299Daniel Suárez33.91
351Cody Ware32.51
47Justin Haley32.11
542John Hunter Nemechek31.61
654Ty Gibbs30.21
710Ty Dillon29.91
88Kyle Busch27.61
938Zane Smith27.01
1088Shane Van Gisbergen #26.91
1143Erik Jones26.81
1241Cole Custer26.71
1335Riley Herbst #25.91
1447Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 25.91
1534Todd Gilliland22.61
166Brad Keselowski22.11
174Noah Gragson21.41
1816AJ Allmendinger20.91
1917Chris Buescher17.71
2060Ryan Preece15.22
2148Alex Bowman14.42
2277Carson Hocevar14.02
233Austin Dillon13.32
2471Michael McDowell13.12
2521Josh Berry6.22
2623Bubba Wallace (P)21.82
2745Tyler Reddick (P)18.02
282Austin Cindric (P)14.92
2911Denny Hamlin (P)9.92
3019Chase Briscoe (P)9.42
311Ross Chastain (P)9.02
325Kyle Larson (P)5.82
339Chase Elliott (P)5.62
3420Christopher Bell (P)5.42
3522Joey Logano (P)4.62
3624William Byron (P)2.72
3712Ryan Blaney (P)1.02