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October 7, 2026

Qualifying orders for 2026 Charlotte Motor Speedway Chase races


The Chase presented by Mobil 1 rolls into the Queen City! The NASCAR Cup Series, O’Reilly Auto Parts Series and Craftsman Truck Series head to Charlotte Motor Speedway for a trio of key postseason races as championship pressure continues to build. It’s the first time since 2017 that the fall festivities at Charlotte are on the 1.5-mile oval. Thirty-nine cars are entered in the Cup Series, 38 in the O’Reilly Series and 36 in the Truck Series, meaning that no entries will fail to qualify. See the qualifying orders for the North Carolina tilts.

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Cup Series
Single-car qualifying will occur at 2:05 p.m. ET on Saturday (truTV).

POSITIONNUMBERDRIVERMETRIC
144* BJ McLeod41.000
266* Gray Gaulding(i)40.100
367* Corey Heim(i)39.500
488Connor Zilisch #35.000
551Cody Ware34.900
638Zane Smith33.600
710Ty Dillon31.900
847Ricky Stenhouse Jr.31.400
934Todd Gilliland30.300
1041Cole Custer28.800
1142John Hunter Nemechek28.400
121Ross Chastain26.700
1321Josh Berry26.000
1433Austin Hill(i) 24.700
1543Erik Jones23.800
164Noah Gragson23.600
176Brad Keselowski22.200
1835Riley Herbst21.300
193Austin Dillon20.800
2071Michael McDowell20.700
2116AJ Allmendinger17.100
2248Alex Bowman14.600
2397Shane van Gisbergen11.400
2460Ryan Preece (C)23.800
2520Christopher Bell (C)17.000
267Daniel Suárez (C)14.300
2754Ty Gibbs (C)14.300
2817Chris Buescher (C)13.900
2911Denny Hamlin (C)11.800
3077Carson Hocevar (C)11.700
319Chase Elliott (C)8.800
3223Bubba Wallace (C)8.600
3322Joey Logano (C)8.200
3424William Byron (C)7.800
352Austin Cindric (C)5.500
3612Ryan Blaney (C)5.000
3745Tyler Reddick (C)4.200
3819Chase Briscoe (C)2.500
395Kyle Larson (C)1.700

O’Reilly Auto Parts Series
Single-car qualifying will occur at 11:35 a.m. ET on Saturday (ESPN Unlimited).

POSITIONNUMBERDRIVERMETRIC
138JJ Yeley39.800
247Dawson Cram35.900
39Jake Finch33.200
453TBA 32.900
591Myatt Snider31.200
602Ryan Ellis30.500
707Josh Bilicki30.000
855Joey Gase29.700
931Blaine Perkins29.500
1092Mason Maggio28.900
1145Lavar Scott28.100
1242Matt DiBenedetto25.700
1348Patrick Staropoli25.200
140Garrett Smithley25.000
1528Kyle Sieg22.700
1627Jeb Burton21.900
1732Carson Brown21.400
1887Austin Green19.500
1944Brennan Poole17.300
2026Dean Thompson16.900
2124Harrison Burton16.400
2239Ryan Sieg13.200
2396Anthony Alfredo12.100
2451Jeremy Clements11.200
2518William Sawalich9.800
2620Brandon Jones (C)28.800
277Justin Allgaier (C)25.000
2899Parker Retzlaff (C)16.600
298Sammy Smith (C)13.200
3088Rajah Caruth (C)10.100
3100Sheldon Creed (C)9.400
3221Austin Hill (C)9.300
3354Taylor Gray (C)7.400
3441Sam Mayer (C)6.000
3519Brent Crews # (C)4.900
362Jesse Love (C)3.000
3717Corey Day (C)2.200
381Carson Kvapil (C)2.000

Craftsman Truck Series
Single-truck qualifying will occur at 2:05 p.m. ET on Friday (FS2).

POSITIONNUMBERDRIVERMETRIC
156Timmy Hill39.500
281Kris Wright33.900
333Josh Reaume32.100
44Matt Mills(i)31.700
52Luke Baldwin28.800
622Clayton Green26.600
726Dawson Sutton26.000
862Leland Honeyman Jr.24.300
976Spencer Boyd23.600
1044Andrés Pérez 23.400
1142Conner Jones22.600
1220Daniel Dye21.600
1314Mini Tyrrell #21.000
1452Stewart Friesen19.800
1525Regan Smith18.700
1613Cole Butcher #16.500
1712Brenden Queen16.100
1810Corey LaJoie13.900
1916Justin Haley13.400
2015Tanner Gray11.600
2198Jake Garcia10.800
225Bayley Currey6.300
2345Landen Lewis (C)26.800
249Grant Enfinger (C)26.500
2588Ty Majeski (C)23.000
2618Tyler Ankrum (C)22.900
2777Rajah Caruth(i) (C)21.400
287Connor Mosack (C)14.300
2934Layne Riggs (C)13.900
3017Gio Ruggiero (C)10.300
3199Ben Rhodes (C)7.400
321Brent Crews(i) (C)7.000
3319Daniel Hemric (C)6.400
3438Chandler Smith (C)5.100
3591Christian Eckes (C)2.900
3611Kaden Honeycutt (C)1.000

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