NASCAR starting lineup for Cup Series race at Bristol in April 2026

Team Penske will lead the NASCAR Cup Series starting lineup for the race at Bristol Motor Speedway in April. Ryan Blaney won the pole for the 2026 Food City 500 at Bristol this weekend. Tyler Reddick will join Blaney on the front row for Sunday afternoon's event. It is Blaney's first pole position of the 2026 season.

Chase Briscoe and Riley Herbst will follow the two drivers on the second row. Most notably, Joey Logano, Brad Keselowski, Alex Bowman, Kyle Busch, Shane van Gisbergen and William Byron all start 20th or worse for Sunday's event. It was a relatively smooth qualifying session.

The full NASCAR Cup Series starting lineup at Bristol in April 2026 is below!

NASCAR Cup Series starting lineup at Bristol (April 2026)

1. No. 12 Ryan Blaney
2. No. 45 Tyler Reddick
3. No. 19 Chase Briscoe
4. No. 35 Riley Herbst
5. No. 54 Ty Gibbs
6. No. 1 Ross Chastain
7. No. 17 Chris Buescher
8. No. 5 Kyle Larson
9. No. 2 Austin Cindric
10. No. 77 Carson Hocevar
11. No. 11 Denny Hamlin
12. No. 23 Bubba Wallace
13. No. 7 Daniel Suarez
14. No. 20 Christopher Bell
15. No. 38 Zane Smith
16. No. 4 Noah Gragson
17. No. 60 Ryan Preece
18. No. 9 Chase Elliott
19. No. 71 Michael McDowell
20. No. 22 Joey Logano
21. No. 6 Brad Keselowski
22. No. 16 A.J. Allmendinger
23. No. 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
24. No. 3 Austin Dillon
25. No. 21 Josh Berry
26. No. 88 Connor Zilisch
27. No. 48 Alex Bowman
28. No. 43 Erik Jones
29. No. 8 Kyle Busch
30. No. 41 Cole Custer
31. No. 42 John Hunter Nemechek
32. No. 10 Ty Dillon
33. No. 97 Shane van Gisbergen
34. No. 24 William Byron
35. No. 34 Todd Gilliland
36. No. 51 Cody Ware
37. No. 66 Chad Finchum

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