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August 20, 2025

NASCAR Cup Series qualifying order for Daytona summer race


The NASCAR Cup Series concludes the 2025 regular season with a superspeedway bout at Daytona International Speedway. Qualifying at the 2.5-miler begins at 5:05 p.m. ET on Friday (truTV, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

QUALIFYING ORDER: Cup Series | Xfinity Series

There will be no practice at Daytona. The qualifying order below is determined via metric that combines the previous race finish by owner (70%) and current owner points position (30%).

Friday’s qualifying session will be one lap and two rounds.

The race itself will be on Saturday (7:30 p.m. ET, NBC, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, Peacock).

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

Pos. Car No. Driver Metric Score
1 44 Joey Gase (i) 42.5
2 66 Casey Mears 40.7
3 78 BJ McLeod (i) 39.8
4 7 Justin Haley 34.9
5 33 Austin Hill (i) 34.5
6 51 Cody Ware 33.2
7 42 John Hunter Nemechek 33.0
8 35 Riley Herbst # 32.2
9 4 Noah Gragson 28.8
10 60 Ryan Preece 28.7
11 9 Chase Elliott 27.5
12 41 Cole Custer 27.0
13 34 Todd Gilliland 26.8
14 45 Tyler Reddick 25.9
15 43 Erik Jones 25.1
16 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 24.5
17 17 Chris Buescher 24.3
18 10 Ty Dillon 23.6
19 23 Bubba Wallace 22.6
20 16 AJ Allmendinger 20.8
21 71 Michael McDowell 18.2
22 1 Ross Chastain 17.8
23 54 Ty Gibbs 17.7
24 88 Shane van Gisbergen # 17.0
25 77 Carson Hocevar 16.5
26 20 Christopher Bell 16.5
27 8 Kyle Busch 16.0
28 38 Zane Smith 15.8
29 99 Daniel Suárez 13.6
30 21 Josh Berry 12.2
31 6 Brad Keselowski 12.0
32 19 Chase Briscoe 11.5
33 24 William Byron 8.7
34 3 Austin Dillon 8.2
35 11 Denny Hamlin 7.6
36 2 Austin Cindric 7.4
37 22 Joey Logano 6.4
38 5 Kyle Larson 5.4
39 48 Alex Bowman 4.1
40 12 Ryan Blaney 3.6

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