The NASCAR Cup Series is set to arrive at New Hampshire Motor Speedway for its 25th race of the 2026 season. It is the only date at New Hampshire, as NASCAR only goes to the venue once per year. In 2025, Joey Logano won the pole for the Cup Series race at New Hampshire, marking his second and final pole position during the season.
First, the Cup Series needs to qualify for the event at New Hampshire, and the qualifying format is simple. Every driver will make a one-lap run, with the overall lap times determining the starting lineup. There will only be one round, and the groups do not matter in setting the starting lineup by the inside or outside rows. The metric system determines the qualifying order.
Below, you can check out the NASCAR qualifying
order and groups for the 2026 Dollar Tree 301 at New Hampshire this weekend!
NASCAR Cup Series qualifying order for New Hampshire (August 2026):
(Qualifying Order)
- No. 51 Cody Ware
- No. 10 Ty Dillon
- No. 38 Zane Smith
- No. 41 Cole Custer
- No. 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- No. 16 AJ Allmendinger
- No. 77 Carson Hocevar
- No. 88 Connor Zilisch
- No. 34 Todd Gilliland
- No. 71 Michael McDowell
- No. 33 Austin Hill
- No. 43 Erik Jones
- No. 35 Riley Herbst
- No. 6 Brad Keselowski
- No. 40 John Hunter Nemechek
- No. 4 Noah Gragson
- No. 3 Austin Dillon
- No. 23 Bubba Wallace
- No. 17 Chris Buescher
- No. 60 Ryan Preece
- No. 48 Alex Bowman
- No. 7 Daniel Suarez
- No. 21 Josh Berry
- No. 97 Shane Van Gisbergen
- No. 1 Ross Chastain
- No. 54 Ty Gibbs
- No. 24 William Byron
- No. 12 Ryan Blaney
- No. 45 Tyler Reddick
- No. 20 Christopher Bell
- No. 2 Austin Cindric
- No. 5 Kyle Larson
- No. 9 Chase Elliott
- No. 22 Joey Logano
- No. 11 Denny Hamlin
- No. 19 Chase Briscoe
This article originally appeared on Motorsports Wire: NASCAR qualifying order for Cup Series at New Hampshire in August 2026
