NASCAR starting grid at Indianapolis: Pole position, qualifying results, start time

By admin — In News — July 25, 2026

   ​INDIANAPOLIS – Carson Hocevar has won the pole for Sunday’s Brickyard 400. Hocevar completed his qualifying lap around Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 48.232 seconds (186.598 mph) to beat out his Spire Motorsports teammate Daniel Suarez, who took 48.288 seconds.Hocevar, who’s seventh in the NASCAR Cup Series standings, will lead the field to green tomorrow in search of his second career Cup win. After his first Cup win at Talladega Superspeedway in April, the 23-year-old made waves by doing his victory lap while hanging out the window of his car. Hocevar has plans for another noteworthy celebration if he takes the checkered flag on Sunday.”The grandstands are a little longer, so I could find plenty of other stuff to do,” Hocevar said. “I don’t know, I think it’ll just kind of come to me. I don’t want to say it out loud, because I think (IMS owner) Roger Penske would kill me if they knew some of the ideas I had. But also, there’s tradition here, so you gotta really watch yourself a bit.”After his Talladega win, Hocevar went on Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s The Dale Jr. Download podcast and called the Indianapolis 500 the “ultimate” race he’d like to do. He reiterated that IMS is his favorite track on Saturday and said that winning the Brickyard 400 would make the Indy 500 an “easy ask” to his bosses at TWG Motorsports – which also owns IndyCar’s Andretti Global.”The prestige of this place really raises everybody’s intensity,” he said. “Everybody’s trying here, if not a little bit more, because they know how much it means to everybody.”The Brickyard 400 begins on Sunday at 2 p.m., and Hocevar will be one of the favorites to win the race after capturing the pole.Who won pole position for the NASCAR race at Indianapolis? NASCAR starting grid for Brickyard 400ROW 11.Carson Hocevar, 186.598 mph2.Daniel Suarez, 186.382ROW 23.Tyler Reddick, 186.0774.Ty Gibbs, 185.966ROW 35.Denny Hamlin, 185.8356.Michael McDowell, 185.762ROW 47.Corey Heim, 185.4568.Alex Bowman, 185.368ROW 59.A.J. Allmendinger, 185.34510.Kyle Larson, 185.315ROW 611.Chase Briscoe, 185.26912.Cole Custer, 185.265ROW 713.Ryan Blaney, 185.19714.Erik Jones, 185.060ROW 815.Chris Buescher, 184.99116.Brad Keselowski, 184.896ROW 917.John Hunter Nemechek, 184.87718.Riley Herbst, 184.782ROW 1019.Joey Logano, 184.69920.Austin Dillon, 184.699ROW 1121.William Bryon, 184.57422.Ross Chastain, 184.540ROW 1223.Christopher Bell, 184.28724.Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 184.245ROW 1325.Shane Van Gisbergen, 184.23726.Josh Berry, 184.128ROW 1427.Chase Elliott, 183.88728.Ty Dillon, 183.869ROW 1529.Bubba Wallace, 183.86130. Zane Smith, 183.494ROW 1631.Connor Zilisch, 183.13232.Austin Hill, 183.083ROW 1733.Noah Gragson, 182.99034.Ryan Preece, 182.786ROW 1835.Austin Cindric, 182.72636.Todd Gilliard, 182.460ROW 1937.Cody Ware, 182.07238.Casey Mears, 179.522ROW 2039,Daniel Dye, 178.962Zion Brown is IndyStar’s motorsports reporter. Follow him at @z10nbr0wn. Get IndyStar’s motor sports coverage sent directly to your inbox with our M  

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