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May 27, 2026

Qualifying orders for 2026 Nashville Superspeedway weekend


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The NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series head to Tennessee for stock-car racing’s annual visit to Nashville Superspeedway. It’s the fifth consecutive tripleheader weekend for NASCAR’s three national series, culminating with the Cracker Barrel 400 on Sunday (7 p.m. ET, Prime Video, HBO Max, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Below are the qualifying orders for all three series.

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Cup Series
Single-car qualifying will occur at 5:40 p.m. ET on Saturday, with practice earlier in the day at 4:30 p.m. ET (Prime Video).

POSITIONNUMBERDRIVERMETRICGROUP
188Connor Zilisch #37.51
266* Chad Finchum(i)36.91
32Austin Cindric31.71
41Ross Chastain31.41
551Cody Ware30.41
621Josh Berry29.91
73Austin Dillon29.91
819Chase Briscoe28.61
910Ty Dillon27.41
109Chase Elliott27.41
1160Ryan Preece27.31
1242John Hunter Nemechek26.91
134Noah Gragson26.11
1433Austin Hill(i)26.11
1567* Corey Heim(i)24.41
1635Riley Herbst23.11
1717Chris Buescher23.11
1834Todd Gilliland21.81
1941Cole Custer21.71
2048Alex Bowman20.92
2123Bubba Wallace19.32
2277Carson Hocevar18.82
2316AJ Allmendinger18.32
2447Ricky Stenhouse Jr.16.52
2571Michael McDowell15.82
2643Erik Jones15.72
276Brad Keselowski13.82
2838Zane Smith13.32
2997Shane van Gisbergen12.22
3022Joey Logano11.02
3124William Byron9.92
3212Ryan Blaney5.82
3354Ty Gibbs5.42
345Kyle Larson5.32
3520Christopher Bell3.82
367Daniel Suárez3.72
3745Tyler Reddick3.12
3811Denny Hamlin2.72

O’Reilly Auto Parts Series
Single-car qualifying will occur at 3:05 p.m. ET on Saturday, with practice earlier in the day at 2 p.m. ET (The CW App).

POSITIONNUMBERDRIVERMETRIC
133Cleetus McFarland42.2
238JJ Yeley35.8
335Dawson Cram35.4
424Harrison Burton34.1
541Sam Mayer29.1
619Brent Crews #28.6
742Logan Bearden28.4
851Jeremy Clements27.0
955Joey Gase26.6
1020Brandon Jones26.6
1107Josh Bilicki26.5
1254Taylor Gray25.9
1302Ryan Ellis25.5
1432Rajah Caruth25.0
1500Sheldon Creed24.2
1644Brennan Poole24.0
17153David Starr23.9
1831Blaine Perkins23.7
1928Kyle Sieg22.6
2027Jeb Burton22.0
2145Lavar Scott #20.6
227Justin Allgaier20.6
2348Patrick Staropoli #20.4
2492Leland Honeyman Jr (i)20.1
2587Austin Green19.6
2626Dean Thompson15.5
2796Anthony Alfredo15.4
2891Mason Maggio14.4
290Garrett Smithley12.8
3099Parker Retzlaff11.7
318Sammy Smith10.7
3239Ryan Sieg9.7
3388Kyle Larson(i)7.6
3418William Sawalich6.4
351Carson Kvapil5.4
3617Corey Day5.0
3721Austin Hill4.5
382Jesse Love2.3

Craftsman Truck Series
Single-truck qualifying will occur at 5:05 p.m. ET on Friday, with practice earlier in the day at 4 p.m. ET (joined at 4:30 p.m. ET on FS1).

POSITIONNUMBERDRIVERMETRIC
120Daniel Dye41.9
269Jonathan Shafer41.0
327Toni Breidinger40.1
493Caleb Costner39.8
52Clayton Green35.1
614Mini Tyrrell31.9
781Kris Wright30.7
822Josh Reaume30.1
912Brenden Queen28.4
1013Cole Butcher27.3
1176Spencer Boyd27.1
1288Ty Majeski26.4
1333Frankie Muniz26.1
147Rajah Caruth(i)25.4
1552Stewart Friesen23.6
1626Dawson Sutton23.2
1738Chandler Smith23.1
1845Ross Chastain(i)22.7
1925Carson Ferguson21.6
2044Andrés Pérez20.5
2162Parker Retzlaff(i)20.3
2218Tyler Ankrum19.1
239Grant Enfinger17.8
2416Justin Haley17.6
2542Tyler Reif17.3
264Stefan Parsons15.0
2710Corey LaJoie13.2
2898Jake Garcia13.0
2919Daniel Hemric12.2
3015Tanner Gray11.9
315William Sawalich(i)10.6
321Brandon Jones(i)6.1
3399Ben Rhodes5.8
3491Christian Eckes5.7
3517Gio Ruggiero5.3
3677Jesse Love(i)4.8
3711Kaden Honeycutt1.7
3834Layne Riggs1.3

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