Qualifying orders for 2026 Talladega Superspeedway spring races

The NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series head to Talladega Superspeedway for their first of two visits to the 2.66-mile drafting tracks this year. See the qualifying orders for the weekend below.

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Cup Series
Single-car qualifying will occur at 10:30 a.m. ET on Saturday (Prime Video).

POSITION	NUMBER	DRIVER	METRIC
1	62	* Casey Mears	41.9
2	78	* Daniel Dye(i)	41.0
3	44	* Joey Gase(i)	40.7
4	66	* Chad Finchum(i)	40.4
5	33	* Jesse Love(i)	40.1
6	51	Cody Ware	36.7
7	10	Ty Dillon	32.7
8	8	Kyle Busch	32.6
9	97	Shane Van Gisbergen	30.6
10	88	Connor Zilisch #	30.2
11	71	Michael McDowell	29.5
12	38	Zane Smith	29.0
13	4	Noah Gragson	28.9
14	16	AJ Allmenedinger	28.0
15	41	Cole Custer	27.7
16	21	Josh Berry	26.7
17	22	Joey Logano	25.2
18	1	Ross Chastain	24.2
19	42	John Hunter Nemechek	24.1
20	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	23.7
21	43	Erik Jones	23.3
22	48	Alex Bowman	23.1
23	34	Todd Gilliland	18.8
24	3	Austin Dillon	18.7
25	35	Riley Herbst	18.2
26	7	Daniel Suárez	18.1
27	12	Ryan Blaney	17.7
28	20	Christopher Bell	17.0
29	2	Austin Cindric	13.5
30	77	Carson Hocevar	12.7
31	60	Ryan Preece	11.6
32	17	Chris Buescher	10.3
33	54	Ty Gibbs	7.5
34	9	Chase Elliott	7.4
35	24	William Byron	7.0
36	6	Brad Keselowski	6.9
37	19	Chase Briscoe	6.6
38	23	Bubba Wallace	5.9
39	11	Denny Hamlin	3.4
40	5	Kyle Larson	2.9
41	45	Tyler Reddick	1.0

O’Reilly Auto Parts Series
Single-car qualifying will occur at 5:30 p.m. ET on Friday (The CW App).

POSITION	NUMBER	DRIVER	METRIC
1	38	Patrick Emerling(i)	41.0
2	5	JJ Yeley	35.0
3	35	Natalie Decker	34.3
4	87	Austin Green	32.6
5	91	Mason Maggio	31.8
6	274	Dawson Cram	31.7
7	55	Joey Gase	29.7
8	99	Parker Retzlaff	29.1
9	96	Anthony Alfredo	27.9
10	1	Carson Kvapil	27.7
11	07	Josh Bilicki	27.2
12	24	Harrison Burton	27.1
13	28	Kyle Sieg	26.8
14	21	Austin Hill	26.8
15	42	David Starr	25.2
16	02	Ryan Ellis	25.0
17	31	Blaine Perkins	22.7
18	92	Josh Williams	21.8
19	45	Lavar Scott #	20.7
20	32	Tyler Ankrum(i)	19.5
21	44	Brennan Poole	18.4
22	51	Jeremy Clements	17.7
23	18	William Sawalich	17.6
24	48	Patrick Staropoli #	16.1
25	27	Jeb Burton	14.5
26	26	Dean Thompson	13.7
27	8	Sammy Smith	13.6
28	0	Garrett Smithley	12.7
29	39	Ryan Sieg	11.2
30	41	Sam Mayer	10.8
31	17	Corey Day	9.9
32	20	Brandon Jones	7.7
33	19	Brent Crews	6.2
34	88	Rajah Caruth	4.8
35	54	Taylor Gray	4.0
36	2	Jesse Love	4.0
37	7	Justin Allgaier	2.4
38	00	Sheldon Creed	2.3