Qualifying orders for COTA, St. Petersburg

The NASCAR Cup Series and O’Reilly Auto Parts Series head to Texas for their annual stops at Circuit of The Americas, while the Craftsman Truck Series battles on a street course for the first time in its history at the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Below are the qualifying orders for all three series:

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Cup Series
Group qualifying will take place at 11:10 a.m. ET on Saturday with practice earlier in the day at 10 a.m. ET (Prime Video).

POSITION	NUMBER	DRIVER	METRIC	GROUP
1	33	* Jesse Love	58.7	1
2	54	Ty Gibbs	35.8	1
3	21	Josh Berry	34.1	1
4	88	Connor Zilisch #	32.1	1
5	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	31.8	1
6	8	Kyle Busch	31.0	1
7	3	Austin Dillon	30.5	1
8	35	Riley Herbst	30.0	1
9	5	Kyle Larson	28.7	1
10	34	Todd Gilliland	28.0	1
11	51	Cody Ware	27.3	1
12	2	Austin Cindric	26.0	1
13	48	Alex Bowman	25.7	1
14	43	Erik Jones	25.5	1
15	41	Cole Custer	24.4	1
16	20	Christopher Bell	24.0	1
17	24	William Byron	23.5	1
18	71	Michael McDowell	20.0	1
19	42	John Hunter Nemechek	19.0	1
20	11	Denny Hamlin	17.2	2
21	10	Ty Dillon	16.3	2
22	6	Brad Keselowski	14.6	2
23	22	Joey Logano	14.4	2
24	16	AJ Allmendinger	13.8	2
25	17	Chris Buescher	13.5	2
26	4	Noah Gragson	13.4	2
27	60	Ryan Preece	10.5	2
28	12	Ryan Blaney	9.4	2
29	97	Shane van Gisbergen	9.0	2
30	9	Chase Elliott	8.6	2
31	38	Zane Smith	6.4	2
32	23	Bubba Wallace	6.2	2
33	19	Chase Briscoe	5.9	2
34	7	Daniel Suárez	5.6	2
35	1	Ross Chastain	5.4	2
36	77	Carson Hocevar	4.0	2
37	45	Tyler Reddick	1.0	2

O’Reilly Auto Parts Series
Group qualifying will take place at 6:05 p.m. ET on Friday with practice earlier in the day at 5 p.m. ET (The CW App).

POSITION	NUMBER	DRIVER	METRIC	GROUP
1	9	Shane Van Gisbergen(i)	59.0	1
2	50	Preson Pardus	58.7	1
3	24	Harrison Burton	36.5	1
4	28	Kyle Sieg	36.2	1
5	35	Austin J. Hill	36.1	1
6	39	Ryan Sieg	32.8	1
7	30	Baltazar Leguizamon	30.7	1
8	31	Blaine Perkins	30.6	1
9	51	Jeremy Clements	30.5	1
10	92	Josh Williams	30.0	1
11	91	Carson Kvapil	29.9	1
12	96	Anthony Alfredo	28.9	1
13	19	Brent Crews	27.6	1
14	45	Lavar Scott #	27.4	1
15	7	Justin Allgaier	24.9	1
16	1	Connor Zilisch(i)	24.8	1
17	8	Sammy Smith	24.0	1
18	18	William Sawalich	22.7	1
19	87	Austin Green	22.2	1
20	55	Sage Karam	21.8	1
21	5	Tyler Gonzalez	21.2	2
22	0	Alex Labbe	19.1	2
23	42	JJ Yeley	18.9	2
24	02	Ryan Ellis	18.7	2
25	27	Jeb Burton	17.2	2
26	44	Brennan Poole	17.2	2
27	26	Dean Thompson	15.8	2
28	07	Josh Bilicki	15.0	2
29	48	Patrick Staropoli #	13.3	2
30	20	Brandon Jones	12.1	2
31	41	Sam Mayer	10.6	2
32	54	Taylor Gray	9.9	2
33	21	Austin Hill	8.7	2
34	25	Nick Sanchez	6.9	2
35	32	Ross Chastain(i)	6.3	2
36	88	Rajah Caruth	6.2	2
37	17	Corey Day	5.5	2
38	2	Jesse Love	4.7	2
39	99	Parker Retzlaff	2.9	2
40	00	Sheldon Creed	1.6	2

Craftsman Truck Series
Group qualifying will take place at 5:05 p.m. ET on Friday with qualifying earlier in the day at 4 p.m. ET (FS2).

POSITION	NUMBER	DRIVER	METRIC	GROUP
1	56	Timmy Hill	41.3	1
2	4	Ben Maier	40.7	1
3	19	Daniel Hemric	33.7	1
4	26	Dawson Sutton	32.6	1
5	69	Derek White	30.8	1
6	91	Christian Eckes	30.0	1
7	13	Cole Butcher #	29.5	1
8	15	Tanner Gray	28.2	1
9	34	Layne Riggs	27.6	1
10	76	Nathan Nicholson	26.6	1
11	2	Carter Fartuch	25.7	1
12	9	Grant Enfinger	24.4	1
13	22	Jackson Lee	24.3	1
14	33	Frankie Muniz	24.1	1
15	88	Ty Majeski	22.3	1
16	14	Mini Tyrrell #	19.6	1
17	81	Kris Wright	19.5	1
18	11	Kaden Honeycutt	18.6	1
19	42	Tyler Reif	17.6	2
20	52	Stewart Friesen	17.0	2
21	25	Colin Braun	15.8	2
22	12	Brenden Queen	14.8	2
23	44	Andrés Pérez	14.7	2
24	18	Tyler Ankrum	14.3	2
25	10	Daniel Dye	14.2	2
26	16	Justin Haley	12.4	2
27	5	Adam Andretti	11.7	2
28	98	Jake Garcia	10.9	2
29	45	Landen Lewis	8.1	2
30	62	Wesley Slimp	6.8	2
31	1	Dario Franchitti	5.6	2
32	38	Chandler Smith	4.5	2
33	99	Ben Rhodes	4.3	2
34	77	James Hinchcliffe	3.8	2
35	17	Gio Ruggiero	3.0	2
36	7	Connor Mosack	1.3	2

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

Qualifying orders for 2026 Circuit of The Americas, St. Petersburg races