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April 29, 2026

Qualifying orders for 2026 Texas Motor Speedway races


The NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series head to the Lone Star State and Texas Motor Speedway for a triple-header weekend you won’t want to miss. Below are the qualifying orders for all three series.

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Cup Series
Single-car qualifying will occur at 1:40 p.m. ET on Saturday, with practice earlier in the day at 12:30 p.m. ET (Prime Video).

POSITIONNUMBERDRIVERMETRICGROUP
167* Corey Heim(i)40.11
241Cole Custer37.11
322Joey Logano31.81
421Josh Berry31.51
566* Chad Finchum(i)31.31
65Kyle Larson29.81
771Michael McDowell29.31
823Bubba Wallace28.81
988Connor Zilisch #28.41
1024William Byron27.81
1112Ryan Blaney26.81
1235Riley Herbst26.21
1351Cody Ware25.51
1419Chase Briscoe25.41
1554Ty Gibbs25.31
1642John Hunter Nemechek24.71
176Brad Keselowski24.71
1843Erik Jones23.91
193Austin Dillon20.51
2097Shane van Gisbergen19.72
2110Ty Dillon19.02
2216AJ Allmendinger17.52
2360Ryan Preece16.52
244Noah Gragson15.32
258Kyle Busch15.12
2620Christopher Bell14.62
2734Todd Gilliland14.32
287Daniel Suárez12.62
2948Alex Bowman11.72
3047Ricky Stenhouse Jr.11.72
3111Denny Hamlin11.12
322Austin Cindric10.42
331Ross Chastain10.32
3445Tyler Reddick10.12
3538Zane Smith9.52
369Chase Elliott4.02
3717Chris Buescher3.52
3877Carson Hocevar3.12

O’Reilly Auto Parts Series
Single-car qualifying will occur at 6:05 p.m. ET on Friday, with practice earlier in the day at 5 p.m. ET (The CW App).

POSITIONNUMBERDRIVERMETRIC
13Austin Dillon(i)58.7
242Brad Perez36.5
335Dawson Cram35.7
402Ryan Ellis35.7
592Josh Williams35.3
69Carson Kvapil34.7
748Patrick Staropoli #33.1
896Anthony Alfredo29.5
932Rajah Caruth27.2
1024Harrison Burton25.8
1145Lavar Scott #24.9
1227Jeb Burton23.6
1354Taylor Gray23.6
1455Joey Gase23.5
1518William Sawalich23.5
1641Sam Mayer22.0
1728Kyle Sieg21.9
1888Kyle Larson(i)21.9
190Garrett Smithley21.5
2091Mason Maggio20.6
2139Ryan Sieg18.9
2207Josh Bilicki18.2
2353David Starr17.3
241Connor Zilisch(i)17.2
257Justin Allgaier16.4
2687Austin Green16.0
2744Brennan Poole15.6
2831Blaine Perkins14.7
2921Austin Hill12.1
3051Jeremy Clements10.1
3126Dean Thompson9.9
3299Parker Retzlaff9.9
3320Brandon Jones7.7
342Jesse Love6.1
358Sammy Smith5.2
3619Brent Crews #4.1
3700Sheldon Creed2.7
3817Corey Day2.2

Craftsman Truck Series
Single-car qualifying will occur at 3:35 p.m. ET on Friday, with practice earlier in the day at 2:30 p.m. ET (FS2).

NUMBERNUMBERDRIVERMETRIC
127Toni Breidinger42.2
293Caleb Costner40.1
322Josh Reaume35.4
433Frankie Muniz33.5
52Clayton Green31.7
642Conner Jones31.6
713Cole Butcher #26.8
876Spencer Boyd26.4
981Kris Wright25.9
1010Corey LaJoie25.7
119Grant Enfinger25.2
1211Kaden Honeycutt22.9
131Brandon Jones(i)22.5
1425Parker Kligerman22.2
1514Mini Tyrrell #22.0
1615Tanner Gray19.7
1744Andrés Pérez18.8
1888Ty Majeski18.8
1934Layne Riggs17.2
2052Stewart Friesen16.0
2119Daniel Hemric15.0
2216Justin Haley15.0
2318Tyler Ankrum14.2
245William Sawalich(i)13.4
2526Dawson Sutton13.0
2612Brenden Queen #13.0
2799Ben Rhodes10.7
2877Carson Hocevar(i)10.2
2998Jake Garcia8.4
307Kyle Busch(i)5.9
3191Christian Eckes5.6
3217Gio Ruggiero4.5
3362Cory Roper4.0
3445Ross Chastain(i)3.4
3538Chandler Smith2.3

* Required to qualify on time
# denotes series rookie
(i) denotes ineligible for driver points

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