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February 28, 2026

Full starting lineup for NASCAR Cup Series race at Circuit of The Americas


Tyler Reddick will lead the field to green on Sunday after winning the Busch Light Pole Award at Circuit of The Americas.

Reddick, who won the first two races of the season for 23XI Racing, seeks to become the first driver in NASCAR history to open the Cup Series season with three consecutive wins.

Trackhouse Racing driver and 2022 COTA winner Ross Chastain qualified second and will line up next to Reddick.

See the full lineup below.

The DuraMax Texas Grand Prix Powered by RelaDyne is at 3:30 p.m. ET Sunday (FOX, HBO Max, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

PositionCarDriver
145Tyler Reddick
21Ross Chastain
319Chase Briscoe
412Ryan Blaney
59Chase Elliott
671Michael McDowell
716AJ Allmendinger
820Christopher Bell
954Ty Gibbs
1024William Byron
1138Zane Smith
1277Carson Hocevar
1397Shane van Gisbergen
1417Chris Buescher
155Kyle Larson
1648Alex Bowman
1734Todd Gilliland
1841Cole Custer
1911Denny Hamlin
2022Joey Logano
2110Ty Dillon
2221Josh Berry
237Daniel Suárez
2423Bubba Wallace
2588Connor Zilisch #
266Brad Keselowski
2733Jesse Love(i)
282Austin Cindric
2960Ryan Preece
308Kyle Busch
3142John Hunter Nemechek
3235Riley Herbst
333Austin Dillon
3447Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
354Noah Gragson
3643Erik Jones
3751Cody Ware

# denotes rookie
(i) denotes ineligible for points