NASCAR qualifying order for Cup Series at Nashville in May 2026

The NASCAR Cup Series is set to arrive at Nashville Superspeedway for its 14th race of the 2026 season. It is the only date in Nashville, as NASCAR visits the venue once per season. In 2025, Chase Briscoe won the pole for the Cup Series race at Nashville, marking his third of seven pole positions during the season.

First, the Cup Series needs to qualify for the event in Nashville, and the qualifying format is simple. Every driver will make a one-lap run, with the overall lap times determining the starting lineup. There will only be one round, and the groups do not matter in setting the starting lineup by the inside or outside rows. The metric system determines the qualifying order.

Below, you can check out the NASCAR qualifying order and groups for the 2026 Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville this weekend!

NASCAR Cup Series qualifying order for Nashville (May 2026):

(Qualifying Order)

• No. 88 Connor Zilisch
• No. 66 Chad Finchum
• No. 2 Austin Cindric
• No. 1 Ross Chastain
• No. 51 Cody Ware
• No. 21 Josh Berry
• No. 3 Austin Dillon
• No. 19 Chase Briscoe
• No. 10 Ty Dillon
• No. 9 Chase Elliott
• No. 60 Ryan Preece
• No. 42 John Hunter Nemechek
• No. 4 Noah Gragson
• No. 33 Austin Hill
• No. 67 Corey Heim
• No. 35 Riley Herbst
• No. 17 Chris Buescher
• No. 34 Todd Gilliland
• No. 41 Cole Custer
• No. 48 Alex Bowman
• No. 23 Bubba Wallace
• No. 77 Carson Hocevar
• No. 16 AJ Allmendinger
• No. 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
• No. 71 Michael McDowell
• No. 43 Erik Jones
• No. 6 Brad Keselowski
• No. 38 Zane Smith
• No. 97 Shane Van Gisbergen
• No. 22 Joey Logano
• No. 24 William Byron
• No. 12 Ryan Blaney
• No. 54 Ty Gibbs
• No. 5 Kyle Larson
• No. 20 Christopher Bell
• No. 7 Daniel Suarez
• No. 45 Tyler Reddick
• No. 11 Denny Hamlin

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