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NASCAR Cup Series Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville
Chase Briscoe took his second consecutive pole position, and third pole of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season with a track-record producing lap in Saturday’s qualifying session at Nashville Superspeedway. Briscoe clocked in a 29.125-second (164.395 mph) lap time, which was good enough to bump Denny Hamlin, his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate from the pole […]

Chase Briscoe took his second consecutive pole position, and third pole of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season with a track-record producing lap in Saturday’s qualifying session at Nashville Superspeedway.
Briscoe clocked in a 29.125-second (164.395 mph) lap time, which was good enough to bump Denny Hamlin, his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate from the pole position. William Byron, Tyler Reddick, and last week’s race winner Ross Chastain rounded out the top-five qualifiers for Sunday’s race at Nashville.
Here is the official starting lineup for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville Superspeedway. Race 14 of 36.
Pos |
Car |
Driver |
Lap time |
Speed |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
19 |
Chase Briscoe |
29.125 |
164.395 |
2 |
11 |
Denny Hamlin |
29.174 |
164.119 |
3 |
24 |
William Byron |
29.307 |
163.374 |
4 |
45 |
Tyler Reddick |
29.308 |
163.368 |
5 |
1 |
Ross Chastain |
29.310 |
163.357 |
6 |
6 |
Brad Keselowski |
29.377 |
162.985 |
7 |
20 |
Christopher Bell |
29.387 |
162.929 |
8 |
71 |
Michael McDowell |
29.397 |
162.874 |
9 |
22 |
Joey Logano |
29.434 |
162.669 |
10 |
17 |
Chris Buescher |
29.443 |
162.619 |
11 |
9 |
Chase Elliott |
29.477 |
162.432 |
12 |
23 |
Bubba Wallace |
29.526 |
162.162 |
13 |
47 |
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. |
29.588 |
161.822 |
14 |
43 |
Erik Jones |
29.589 |
161.817 |
15 |
12 |
Ryan Blaney |
29.601 |
161.751 |
16 |
2 |
Austin Cindric |
29.606 |
161.724 |
17 |
16 |
AJ Allmendinger |
29.619 |
161.653 |
18 |
7 |
Justin Haley |
29.623 |
161.631 |
19 |
60 |
Ryan Preece |
29.635 |
161.566 |
20 |
21 |
Josh Berry |
29.651 |
161.479 |
21 |
3 |
Austin Dillon |
29.657 |
161.446 |
22 |
54 |
Ty Gibbs |
29.658 |
161.440 |
23 |
88 |
Shane van Gisbergen # |
29.659 |
161.435 |
24 |
48 |
Alex Bowman |
29.670 |
161.375 |
25 |
8 |
Kyle Busch |
29.732 |
161.039 |
26 |
77 |
Carson Hocevar |
29.754 |
160.920 |
27 |
38 |
Zane Smith |
29.766 |
160.855 |
28 |
5 |
Kyle Larson |
29.778 |
160.790 |
29 |
41 |
Cole Custer |
29.807 |
160.633 |
30 |
4 |
Noah Gragson |
29.820 |
160.563 |
31 |
10 |
Ty Dillon |
29.824 |
160.542 |
32 |
99 |
Daniel Suarez |
29.844 |
160.220 |
33 |
67 |
Corey Heim * (i) |
29.896 |
160.155 |
34 |
51 |
Cody Ware |
29.951 |
159.861 |
35 |
34 |
Todd Gilliland |
29.996 |
159.621 |
36 |
42 |
John Hunter Nemechek |
30.023 |
159.478 |
37 |
35 |
Riley Herbst # |
30.160 |
158.753 |
38 |
44 |
JJ Yeley * (i) |
30.443 |
157.278 |
39 |
66 |
Chad Finchum * |
31.729 |
150.903 |
# indicates Rookie of the Year contender
* indicates “Open” entry
(i) indicates the driver is ineligible to score points