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Starting Lineup: NASCAR Cup Series Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville

Chase Briscoe earned his third pole of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, and his second in a row, by setting a new track record on Saturday at Nashville Superspeedway.

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Chase Briscoe earned his third pole of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, and his second in a row, by setting a new track record on Saturday at Nashville Superspeedway.

Briscoe, who started on the pole for last week's Coca-Cola 600, will also lead the field to the green flag in Sunday's Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville. He clocked in at 29.125 seconds in the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.

Briscoe's teammate, Denny Hamlin, will join him on the front row. William Byron qualified third, followed by Tyler Reddick and Ross Chastain.

Brad Keselowski, Christopher Bell, Michael McDowell, Joey Logano and Chris Buescher rounded out the top 10 in the qualifying session.

Prior to Saturday's qualifying session, Aric Almirola held the NASCAR Cup Series track record with a time of 29.557 seconds around the 1.33-mile oval. Everyone in the top 12 during Saturday's qualifying session bettered that mark, with Briscoe dropping the record by more than four tenths of a second.

The Cracker Barrel 400 takes the green flag on Sunday, June 1 at Nashville Superspeedway at 7 p.m. ET. Coverage will be provided by Prime Video, the Performance Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.

-Photo credit: Lesley Ann Miller, Lumen Digital Agency for Toyota Gazoo Racing

Cracker Barrel 400 Starting Lineup
PosNoDriverTime
119Chase Briscoe29.125
211Denny Hamlin29.174
324William Byron29.307
445Tyler Reddick29.308
51Ross Chastain29.310
66Brad Keselowski29.377
720Christopher Bell29.387
871Michael McDowell29.397
922Joey Logano29.434
1017Chris Buescher29.443
119Chase Elliott29.477
1223Bubba Wallace29.526
1347Ricky Stenhouse Jr.29.588
1443Erik Jones29.589
1512Ryan Blaney29.601
162Austin Cindric29.606
1716AJ Allmendinger29.619
187Justin Haley29.623
1960Ryan Preece29.635
2021Josh Berry29.651
213Austin Dillon29.657
2254Ty Gibbs29.658
2388Shane Van Gisbergen #29.659
2448Alex Bowman29.670
258Kyle Busch29.732
2677Carson Hocevar29.754
2738Zane Smith29.766
285Kyle Larson29.778
2941Cole Custer29.807
304Noah Gragson29.820
3110Ty Dillon29.824
3299Daniel Suarez29.884
3367* Corey Heim(i)29.896
3451Cody Ware29.951
3534Todd Gilliland29.996
3642John Hunter Nemechek30.023
3735Riley Herbst #30.160
3844* JJ Yeley(i)30.443
3966* Chad Finchum31.729
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