Michael McDowell took the pole position for the 2025 YellaWood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.
The NASCAR Cup Series race is at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19 at Talladega Superspeedway. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is the reigning winner of the fall race but Austin Cindric won the spring race earlier this year.
The order was set during qualifying on Saturday, here’s the full starting lineup for the race.
Row 1: Michael McDowell, Chase Briscoe
Row 2: Kyle Busch, Austin Cindric
Row 3: Ryan Preece, Josh Berry
Row 4: Christopher Bell, Ryan Blaney
Row 5: Riley Herbst, Bubba Wallace
Row 6: Alex Bowman, Cole Custer
Row 7: William Byron, Chris Buescher
Row 8: Tyler Reddick, Joey Logano
Row 9: Denny Hamlin, Ty Gibbs
Row 10: Kyle Larson, Brad Keselowski
Row 11: Austin Dillon, Justin Haley
Row 12: Zane Smith, Ross Chastain
Row 13: Chase Elliott, Daniel Suarez
Row 14: Todd Gilliland, John Hunter Nemechek
Row 15: Ty Dillon, Erik Jones
Row 16: Shane van Gisbergen, Carson Hocevar
Row 17: Austin Hill, AJ Allmendinger
Row 18: Cody Ware, Noah Gragson
Row 19: Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Anthony Alfredo
Row 20: BJ McLeod, Casey Mears
Maxwell Donaldson covers high school sports, Jax State athletics, the outdoors in Alabama and more for the Gadsden Times. Find him on Twitter/X @_Max_Donaldson and contact him at MDonaldson@gannett.com.
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