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Qualifying orders for 2026 Pocono Raceway weekend

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Time to get tricky! The NASCAR Cup Series and O’Reilly Auto Parts Series head back to the Northeast for their annual visits to the 2.5-mile, triangular Pocono Raceway. ARCA Menards Series action kicks off the weekend on Friday at 3 p.m. ET (FS1), before the O’Reilly Series races on Saturday (4 p.m. ET, The CW). The Cup Series culminates the weekend with 160 laps around the Long Pond, Pennsylvania, facility on Sunday (3 p.m. ET, Prime Video). Below are the qualifying orders for both series.

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Cup Series
Single-car qualifying will occur at 2:10 p.m. ET on Saturday, with practice earlier in the day at 1 p.m. ET (Prime Video).

POSITION

NUMBER

DRIVER

METRIC

GROUP

1

62

* Casey Mears

41.6

1

2

78

* Daniel Dye(i)

41.0

1

3

88

Connor Zilisch #

36.4

1

4

3

Austin Dillon

33.6

1

5

38

Zane Smith

29.7

1

6

6

Brad Keselowski

28.3

1

7

4

Noah Gragson

28.2

1

8

47

Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

27.2

1

9

51

Cody Ware

26.9

1

10

10

Ty Dillon

26.7

1

11

97

Shane van Gisbergen

25.2

1

12

45

Tyler Reddick

24.8

1

13

20

Christopher Bell

24.7

1

14

60

Ryan Preece

24.4

1

15

71

Michael McDowell

24.2

1

16

9

Chase Elliott

23.6

1

17

34

Todd Gilliland

22.9

1

18

48

Alex Bowman

22.3

1

19

33

Austin Hill(i)

21.8

1

20

21

Josh Berry

20.1

2

21

54

Ty Gibbs

19.0

2

22

41

Cole Custer

18.6

2

23

42

John Hunter Nemechek

18.5

2

24

1

Ross Chastain

18.4

2

25

16

AJ Allmendinger

18.2

2

26

35

Riley Herbst

17.2

2

27

24

William Byton

16.2

2

28

2

Austin Cindric

12.8

2

29

19

Chase Briscoe

10.9

2

30

22

Joey Logano

10.3

2

31

17

Chris Buescher

8.7

2

32

43

Erik Jones

7.1

2

33

7

Daniel Suárez

6.9

2

34

12

Ryan Blaney

6.5

2

35

77

Carson Hocevar

5.6

2

36

23

Bubba Wallace

5.4

2

37

5

Kyle Larson

4.6

2

38

11

Denny Hamlin

1.3

2

O’Reilly Auto Parts Series
Single-car qualifying will occur at 11:35 a.m. ET on Saturday, with practice earlier in the day at 10:30 a.m. ET (The CW App).

POSITION

NUMBER

DRIVER

METRIC

1

38

Patrick Emerling(i)

38.6

2

53

Natalie Decker(i)

36.4

3

35

Carson Ware

36.1

4

55

Joey Gase

36.0

5

9

Carson Kvapil

33.5

6

07

Josh Bilicki

31.7

7

0

Cole Custer

30.9

8

02

Ryan Ellis

30.5

9

45

Lavar Scott #

30.4

10

87

Nick Sanchez

29.4

11

42

Nick Leitz(i)

28.1

12

91

Dexter Bean

27.7

13

24

Harrison Burton

26.4

14

28

Kyle Sieg

25.8

15

92

Leland Honeyman Jr.(i)

25.0

16

48

Patrick Staropoli #

24.7

17

27

Jeb Burton

22.7

18

31

Blaine Perkins

20.9

19

44

Brennan Poole

19.8

20

32

Rajah Caruth

18.7

21

51

Jeremy Clements

18.6

22

96

Anthony Alfredo

18.2

23

26

Dean Thompson

15.5

24

39

Ryan Sieg

13.6

25

00

Sheldon Creed

12.3

26

2

Jesse Love

12.1

27

99

Parker Retzlaff

12.0

28

54

Taylor Gray

10.5

29

21

Austin Hill

10.1

30

8

Sammy Smith

10.0

31

41

Sam Mayer

6.7

32

88

William Byron(i)

6.2

33

1

Connor Zilisch(i)

6.1

34

17

Corey Day

5.7

35

20

Brandon Jones

5.6

36

18

William Sawalich

5.4

37

19

Brent Crews #

4.1

38

7

Justin Allgaier

1.0

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

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