NASCAR Qualifying Results: Ross Chastain and SvG shine as Trackhouse star in Mexico City

Trackhouse Racing star Shane van Gisbergen will start Sunday’s Viva Mexico 250 on pole position after coming out on top in NASCAR Cup Series qualifying on Saturday, beating the likes of Ryan Preece and Ross Chastain.

A three-time Australian Supercars champion and previous road course winner in the Cup Series, van Gisbergen is always one of the favorites when NASCAR ditches the oval layouts for something a little bit different, and he proved why today, setting the fastest time of 92.776 seconds around the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez before rain brought out an early red flag and cut the session short.

The No. 88’s time was just enough to edge Preece and Chastain, who qualified 2nd and 3rd, respectively, with the No. 60 and No. 1 both under one-tenth away from the leading lap time.

With SvG on pole and Chastain third, hometown favorite Daniel Suarez also qualified inside the top 10, marking an excellent session all around for Trackhouse.

Elsewhere in Mexico City, Ty Gibbs and Michael McDowell rounded out the top five, with former champions such as Kyle Larson and Joey Logano set to start inside the top 10 in sixth and ninth, respectively.

Further down the order, it was a difficult day for Christopher Bell in the No. 20 Toyota, with the three-time 2025 Cup Series race winner only able to put his car 31st in Saturday’s session, enduring something of a nightmare start to his Cup weekend having done well in Xfinity Series qualifying earlier in the day.

Ryan Truex, stepping in for Denny Hamlin in the No. 11 for Joe Gibbs Racing, meanwhile, qualified 36th.

With that said, let’s take a look at Saturday’s qualifying results in full!

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