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October 21, 2026

Qualifying orders for 2026 Talladega Superspeedway Chase races


The Chase presented by Mobil 1 heads to the biggest and baddest of them all. A postseason tripleheader is on deck this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway, starting with the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series on Friday (two trucks going home), the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series on Saturday (three cars going home) and culminating with the NASCAR Cup Series on Sunday. It serves as the antepenultimate race for all three divisions, with plenty on the line in the high-speed draft. See qualifying orders for this weekend on the Alabama high banks.

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NOTE: There is no practice for all three series this weekend.

Cup Series
Single-car qualifying will occur at 1 p.m. ET on Saturday (truTV).

POSITIONNUMBERDRIVERMETRIC
162* Casey Mears41.900
244* Joey Gase(i)41.000
378* Daniel Dye(i)40.400
466* Gray Gaulding(i)40.100
551Cody Ware35.600
63Austin Dillon33.700
710Ty Dillon32.200
842John Hunter Nemechek31.500
971Michael McDowell31.200
1035Riley Herbst31.100
1147Ricky Stenhouse Jr.30.000
1241Cole Custer28.800
1348Alex Bowman27.800
1433Austin Hill(i)26.400
1588Connor Zilisch #24.200
1643Erik Jones23.800
1716AJ Allmendinger23.300
1897Shane van Gisbergen23.300
1938Zane Smith18.600
204Noah Gragson18.400
2134Todd Gilliland16.700
226Brad Keselowski16.600
2321Josh Berry14.300
241Ross Chastain12.000
255Kyle Larson (C)24.100
2611Denny Hamlin (C)20.800
2717Chris Buescher (C)19.900
2824William Byron (C)18.900
2960Ryan Preece (C)17.400
302Austin Cindric (C)16.000
3123Bubba Wallace (C)15.500
3277Carson Hocevar (C)11.700
3354Ty Gibbs (C)9.400
347Daniel Suarez (C)8.800
3519Chase Briscoe (C)6.500
3622Joey Logano (C)6.000
379Chase Elliott (C)5.100
3820Christopher Bell (C)3.400
3912Ryan Blaney (C)2.900
4045Tyler Reddick (C)2.800

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

POSITIONNUMBERDRIVERMETRIC
14Caesar Bacarella43.100
271Leland Honeyman Jr.(i)41.900
338Patrick Emerling(i)39.800
447Carson Ware37.300
543Connor Mosack(i)34.800
607Josh Bilicki34.200
755Joey Gase33.600
891Mason Maggio32.200
99Jake Finch31.700
1053Will Rodgers31.100
1144Brennan Poole30.200
120Garrett Smithley29.200
1342Nick Leitz(i)28.500
1492Josh Williams27.500
1528Kyle Sieg26.200
1631Blaine Perkins24.600
1745Lavar Scott23.200
1802Ryan Ellis22.800
1948Patrick Staropoli22.800
2087Lee Pulliam22.300
2139Ryan Sieg20.600
2227Jeb Burton18.400
2396Anthony Alfredo16.700
2432Daniel Dye(i)15.800
2524Harrison Burton15.700
2651Jeremy Clements14.700
2726Dean Thompson10.300
2818William Sawalich9.800
2900Sheldon Creed (C)23.600
3054Taylor Gray (C)23.500
3119Brent Crews (C)16.100
3221Austin Hill (C)13.200
3399Parker Retzlaff (C)11.000
3488Rajah Caruth (C)9.300
351Carson Kvapil (C)8.500
3620Brandon Jones (C)7.800
378Sammy Smith (C)5.900
3817Corey Day (C)3.700
3941Sam Mayer (C)3.200
407Justin Allgaier (C)2.700
412Jesse Love (C)1.000

Craftsman Truck Series
Single-truck qualifying will occur at 12:30 p.m. ET on Friday (FS2).

POSITIONNUMBERDRIVERMETRIC
16Norm Benning42.800
228Bryan Dauzat42.500
395Clay Greenfield41.300
456Timmy Hill39.800
522Josh Reaume34.700
62Jason White32.300
733Frankie Muniz32.100
825Tony Stewart28.800
914Mini Tyrrell28.700
1062Cory Roper28.600
1176Spencer Boyd27.100
1281Kris Wright26.900
1315Tanner Gray26.200
144Cleetus McFarland(i)26.100
1542Conner Jones26.100
1626Dawson Sutton22.900
1712Brenden Queen22.400
1813Cole Butcher20.700
1916Justin Haley19.700
2010Corey LaJoie18.800
2152Stewart Friesen18.700
2244Andrés Pérez14.400
235Thomas Annunziata7.800
2498Jake Garcia7.700
2599Ben Rhodes (C)19.200
2618Tyler Ankrum (C)14.200
2745Landen Lewis (C)14.200
2877Austin Green(i) (C)12.200
2938Chandler Smith (C)11.400
307Sammy Smith (C)10.400
319Grant Enfinger (C)10.200
321Corey Heim (C)9.100
3319Daniel Hemric (C)8.200
3417Gio Ruggiero (C)7.400
3588Ty Majeski (C)4.300
3634Layne Riggs (C)2.700
3791Christian Eckes (C)2.600
3811Kaden Honeycutt (C)1.000

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