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June 10, 2026

Qualifying orders for 2026 Pocono Raceway weekend


Time to get tricky! The NASCAR Cup Series and O’Reilly Auto Parts Series head back to the Northeast for their annual visits to the 2.5-mile, triangular Pocono Raceway. ARCA Menards Series action kicks off the weekend on Friday at 3 p.m. ET (FS1), before the O’Reilly Series races on Saturday (4 p.m. ET, The CW). The Cup Series culminates the weekend with 160 laps around the Long Pond, Pennsylvania, facility on Sunday (3 p.m. ET, Prime Video). Below are the qualifying orders for both series.

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Cup Series
Single-car qualifying will occur at 2:10 p.m. ET on Saturday, with practice earlier in the day at 1 p.m. ET (Prime Video).

POSITIONNUMBERDRIVERMETRICGROUP
162* Casey Mears41.61
278* Daniel Dye(i)41.01
388Connor Zilisch #36.41
43Austin Dillon33.61
538Zane Smith29.71
66Brad Keselowski28.31
74Noah Gragson28.21
847Ricky Stenhouse Jr.27.21
951Cody Ware26.91
1010Ty Dillon26.71
1197Shane van Gisbergen25.21
1245Tyler Reddick24.81
1320Christopher Bell24.71
1460Ryan Preece24.41
1571Michael McDowell24.21
169Chase Elliott23.61
1734Todd Gilliland22.91
1848Alex Bowman22.31
1933Austin Hill(i)21.81
2021Josh Berry20.12
2154Ty Gibbs19.02
2241Cole Custer18.62
2342John Hunter Nemechek18.52
241Ross Chastain18.42
2516AJ Allmendinger18.22
2635Riley Herbst17.22
2724William Byton16.22
282Austin Cindric12.82
2919Chase Briscoe10.92
3022Joey Logano10.32
3117Chris Buescher8.72
3243Erik Jones7.12
337Daniel Suárez6.92
3412Ryan Blaney6.52
3577Carson Hocevar5.62
3623Bubba Wallace5.42
375Kyle Larson4.62
3811Denny Hamlin1.32

O’Reilly Auto Parts Series
Single-car qualifying will occur at 11:35 a.m. ET on Saturday, with practice earlier in the day at 10:30 a.m. ET (The CW App).

POSITIONNUMBERDRIVERMETRIC
138Patrick Emerling(i)38.6
253Natalie Decker(i)36.4
335Carson Ware36.1
455Joey Gase36.0
59Carson Kvapil33.5
607Josh Bilicki31.7
70Cole Custer30.9
802Ryan Ellis30.5
945Lavar Scott #30.4
1087Nick Sanchez29.4
1142Nick Leitz(i)28.1
1291Dexter Bean27.7
1324Harrison Burton26.4
1428Kyle Sieg25.8
1592Leland Honeyman Jr.(i)25.0
1648Patrick Staropoli #24.7
1727Jeb Burton22.7
1831Blaine Perkins20.9
1944Brennan Poole19.8
2032Rajah Caruth18.7
2151Jeremy Clements18.6
2296Anthony Alfredo18.2
2326Dean Thompson15.5
2439Ryan Sieg13.6
2500Sheldon Creed12.3
262Jesse Love12.1
2799Parker Retzlaff12.0
2854Taylor Gray10.5
2921Austin Hill10.1
308Sammy Smith10.0
3141Sam Mayer6.7
3288William Byron(i)6.2
331Connor Zilisch(i)6.1
3417Corey Day5.7
3520Brandon Jones5.6
3618William Sawalich5.4
3719Brent Crews #4.1
387Justin Allgaier1.0

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

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