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October 28, 2026

Qualifying orders for 2026 Martinsville Speedway Chase races


And then there were two. It’s time for the penultimate race weekend of the 2026 season, with all three NASCAR national series making the short trip north to Martinsville Speedway for a Chase presented by Mobil 1 tripleheader. The Craftsman Truck Series is slated to race Friday evening, with the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series going to battle Saturday afternoon and the Cup Series capping off the weekend with matinee action on Sunday. See qualifying orders for all three races in Virginia.

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

POSITIONNUMBERDRIVERMETRIC
142John Hunter Nemechek36.300
288Connor Zilisch #30.800
316AJ Allmendinger29.200
466* Gray Gaulding27.500
535Riley Herbst26.900
697Shane van Gisbergen26.100
743Erik Jones25.900
84Noah Gragson23.300
96Brad Keselowski22.500
1051Cody Ware22.300
1138Zane Smith21.400
1210Ty Dillon20.700
1333Austin Hill(i)19.400
143Austin Dillon15.500
1521Josh Berry15.300
1648Alex Bowman13.500
1741Cole Custer13.400
1871Michael McDowell13.000
1934Todd Gilliland11.500
2047Ricky Stenhouse Jr.10.500
211Ross Chastain8.200
229Chase Elliott (C)28.800
2312Ryan Blaney (C)28.400
2445Tyler Reddick (C)28.000
2517Chris Buescher (C)27.200
2620Christopher Bell (C)25.400
2722Joey Logano (C)25.300
2819Chase Briscoe (C)24.300
292Austin Cindric (C)21.600
3023Bubba Wallace (C)19.300
317Daniel Suarez (C)16.800
3254Ty Gibbs (C)14.300
3360Ryan Preece (C)13.600
3477Carson Hocevar (C)7.200
3511Denny Hamlin (C)6.200
3624William Byron (C)4.700
375Kyle Larson (C)1.000

O’Reilly Auto Parts Series
Single-car qualifying will occur at 4:05 p.m. ET on Friday (ESPN Unlimited).

POSITIONNUMBERDRIVERMETRIC
135Justin Carroll(i)58.700
247Dawson Cram40.100
338Patrick Emerling(i)39.800
445Lavar Scott38.600
502Ryan Ellis31.200
648Patrick Staropoli30.800
732Daniel Dye(i)29.100
853Carson Ware28.300
928Kyle Sieg28.300
100Garrett Smithley26.700
1192Alex Labbe25.700
1255Joey Gase24.500
1318William Sawalich24.500
1444Brennan Poole23.900
1524Harrison Burton23.400
1687Lee Pulliam22.600
1707Josh Bilicki20.200
1842Baltazar Leguizamón19.800
1951Jeremy Clements18.900
2091Mason Maggio16.500
2127Jeb Burton14.600
2239Ryan Sieg14.300
2331Blaine Perkins12.400
2496Anthony Alfredo11.800
2526Dean Thompson11.000
2621Austin Hill (C)27.200
2719Brent Crews (C)26.200
2899Parker Retzlaff (C)25.300
2954Taylor Gray (C)18.600
3088Rajah Caruth (C)14.900
3141Sam Mayer (C)10.900
3220Brandon Jones (C)9.600
3317Corey Day (C)5.100
3400Sheldon Creed (C)4.700
357Justin Allgaier (C)3.400
361Carson Kvapil (C)2.900
378Sammy Smith (C)2.800
382Jesse Love (C)2.400

Craftsman Truck Series
Single-truck qualifying will occur at 1:35 p.m. ET on Friday (FS2).

POSITIONNUMBERDRIVERMETRIC
169Tyler Tomassi(i)43.400
290Justin Carroll41.600
34Conner Jones35.100
425Carson Ferguson31.600
581Kris Wright31.400
610Corey LaJoie30.000
713Cole Butcher28.400
844Andrés Pérez28.300
914Mini Tyrrell28.000
1042Tyler Reif26.400
1152Stewart Friesen26.400
1222Josh Reaume25.600
1398Jake Garcia23.000
1456Timmy Hill22.000
1516Justin Haley20.000
165William Sawalich(i)19.700
172Monty Tipton18.700
1833Frankie Muniz17.100
1962Kasey Kleyn17.100
2076Spencer Boyd15.600
2115Tanner Gray13.400
2212Brenden Queen11.200
2319Daniel Hemric (C)27.800
249Grant Enfinger (C)21.000
2517Gio Ruggiero (C)19.900
2691Christian Eckes (C)15.900
2799Ben Rhodes (C)15.800
2838Chandler Smith (C)10.700
291Gavan Boschele (C)9.700
3045Landen Lewis (C)7.200
3118Tyler Ankrum (C)6.500
3234Layne Riggs (C)6.200
3388Ty Majeski (C)4.300
3477Tristan McKee (C)3.900
3511Kaden Honeycutt (C)3.800
367Sammy Smith(i) (C)2.800

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