NASCAR Cup Series

NASCAR Cup Series qualifying delayed with 'miserable' weather situation

Chris Deeley Saturday 28 June 2025 00:00

An image of a weather warning at Pocono Raceway ahead of a NASCAR race

NASCAR qualifying at Atlanta has been heavily impacted by the weather in Georgia, with some parts of the running cancelled.

The final round of Xfinity Series qualifying was cancelled on Friday afternoon due to lightning in the area, which also cut into time for Cup Series qualifying ahead of an unusual Saturday race.

The start of Cup Series qualifying was delayed too, which reduced the scheduled running to just a single round rather than two.

With just 14 of the 40 cars having set laps in qualifying for Saturday's Cup Series race, the session was cut off again for lightning in the area with Cole Custer top of the standings.

If running is cancelled, NASCAR would revert to their calculators and formulae to determine the start order for Saturday, which would have Denny Hamlin starting first.

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NASCAR Cup Series Atlanta qualifying order

Here is the qualifying order in which Cup Series cars will qualify on Friday afternoon, as per NASCAR.

Qualifying Order	Driver	Car No.
1	David Starr	66
2	Connor Zilisch	87
3	Corey LaJoie	01
4	BJ McLeod	78
5	Riley Herbst	35
6	Ty Dillon	10
7	Cody Ware	51
8	Shane van Gisbergen	88
9	Michael McDowell	71
10	Bubba Wallace	23
11	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	47
12	Todd Gilliland	34
13	Noah Gragson	4
14	Cole Custer	41
15	Zane Smith	38
16	Austin Dillon	3
17	Tyler Reddick	45
18	Justin Haley	7
19	Ross Chastain	1
20	AJ Allmendinger	16
21	Kyle Busch	8
22	William Byron	24
23	Daniel Suárez	99
24	Carson Hocevar	77
25	Ty Gibbs	54
26	Brad Keselowski	6
27	Erik Jones	43
28	Joey Logano	22
29	Josh Berry	21
30	Christopher Bell	20
31	Alex Bowman	48
32	John Hunter Nemechek	42
33	Austin Cindric	2
34	Ryan Preece	60
35	Chris Buescher	17
36	Kyle Larson	5
37	Chase Elliott	9
38	Ryan Blaney	12
39	Chase Briscoe	19
40	Denny Hamlin	11

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NASCAR Cup Series qualifying delayed with 'miserable' weather situation

NASCAR Cup Series qualifying delayed with 'miserable' weather situation

NASCAR Cup Series Atlanta qualifying order