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NASCAR: Full qualifying order revealed for Clash at Bowman Gray

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2025 NASCAR Cup Series season kicks off unofficially with the Cook Out Clash on a Sunday evening at Bowman Gray Stadium.

The 0.25-mile (0.402-kilometer), four-lap track is slated to be the fourth venue hosting The Clash over the past six years. Previously held on Daytona International Speedway’s oval for 42 years, the exhibition race shifted to its interior road course in 2021. Subsequently, it moved to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 2022 and stayed there until 2024.

On Sunday evening, the upcoming race marks the first NASCAR Cup Series event held at the track known as “the Madhouse,” since 1971.

A distinctive racing format will be employed for qualifying in the year 2024. This format will divide teams into three practice groups, which will be arranged based on the owner standings from that year. In qualifying, each of these three groups will further split into two smaller groups. To clarify, this is not a traditional one-on-one qualifying session; instead, it will involve group qualifying sessions.

In this scenario, after determining the rankings through qualifying rounds, the lineups for the four 25-lap preliminary races are established. From each heat, five drivers advance to the main event, while the remaining drivers participate in a 75-lap Last Chance Qualifier. The top two finishers from this race also earn spots in the 200-lap final event.

Of those drivers who don’t make it through the qualifying heats or the Last Chance Qualifier, the one who finished highest in the previous season’s rankings earns the starting position number 23. Unfortunately, the remaining sixteen drivers don’t get a chance to participate.

Here are the qualifying groups for Saturday night.

Group 1 (Practice Group 1)

Here are the drivers and their respective cars:

* Carson Hocevar, driving the No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet
* Riley Herbst, driving the No. 35 23XI Racing Toyota
* Noah Gragson, driving the No. 4 Front Row Motorsports Ford
* Ty Dillon, driving the No. 10 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet
* Austin Dillon, driving the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet
* Ryan Preece, driving the No. 60 RFK Racing Ford
* Tim Brown, driving the No. 15 Rick Ware Racing Ford

Group 2 (Practice Group 1)

Here are the drivers and their respective vehicles:

* William Byron is driving the No. 24 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports.
* Kyle Larson is driving the No. 5 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports.
* Alex Bowman is driving the No. 48 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports.
* Daniel Suarez is driving the No. 99 Chevrolet for Trackhouse Racing.
* Ty Gibbs is driving the No. 54 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing.
* Bubba Wallace is driving the No. 23 Toyota for 23XI Racing.

Group 3 (Practice Group 2)

Kyle Busch (#8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet), Todd Gilliland (#34 Front Row Motorsports Ford), Cole Custer (#41 Haas Factory Team Ford), Erik Jones (#43 Legacy Motor Club Toyota), Justin Haley (#7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet), John Hunter Nemechek (#42 Legacy Motor Club Toyota), and Burt Myers (#50 Team AmeriVet Chevrolet) are the racers. Each one is associated with a specific team, vehicle manufacturer, and car number.

Group 4 (Practice Group 2)

As a die-hard gamer on the racetrack, I’m Ryan Blaney from Team Penske, piloting my trusty steed, the No. 12 Ford. Right beside me are my fellow competitors: Christopher Bell in his No. 20 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing, Denny Hamlin also in a Toyota, this time the No. 11, Austin Cindric with the No. 2 Ford from Team Penske, and the speedy Shane van Gisbergen behind the wheel of the No. 88 Chevrolet for Trackhouse Racing. Last but not least, Chris Buescher steers the No. 17 Ford for RFK Racing. It’s going to be one heck of a race with these top-tier drivers!

Group 5 (Practice Group 3)

Competing drivers in the race include Ross Chastain driving the No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Team Chevrolet, Zane Smith in the No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. behind the wheel of the No. 47 JTG Daugherty Racing Chevrolet, A.J. Allmendinger piloting the No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet, Michael McDowell racing with the No. 71 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet, Cody Ware driving the No. 51 Rick Ware Racing Ford, and Garrett Smithley in the No. 66 Garage 66 Ford.

Group 6 (Practice Group 3)

Joey Logano (driver of car number 22 for Team Penske), Tyler Reddick (driver of car number 45 for 23XI Racing), Chase Elliott (driver of car number 9 for Hendrick Motorsports), Chase Briscoe (driver of car number 19 for Joe Gibbs Racing), Brad Keselowski (driver of car number 6 for RFK Racing), and Josh Berry (driver of car number 21 for Wood Brothers Racing) are the drivers who will be competing in this race.

Don’t miss out on the heat races live on Fox Sports 1 this Saturday, February 1, at 8:30 p.m. ET. Then, tune into Fox at 6:40 p.m. ET on Sunday, February 2 for the Last Chance Qualifier. For those who want to watch it all, make sure you’re tuned in for the Cook Out Clash at 8:20 p.m. ET. Start enjoying the action right away by signing up for a free trial of FuboTV!

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2025-02-01 18:33

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