NASCAR Cup Kansas starting lineup: Tyler Reddick beats…

The dream season continues for Tyler Reddick and 23XI Racing, just one day after partnering with Rockstar Energy. The championship leader earned his 14th career pole and his third of the 2026 season at Kansas Speedway.

With a fast lap of 29.142s, Reddick beat his boss Denny Hamlin by 0.019s for the top spot. It was a Toyota 1-2-3 in qualifying with last week's winner Ty Gibbs in third.

Kyle Larson led the way for Chevrolet in fourth, while Chase Briscoe qualified fifth. Carson Hocevar, Chris Buescher, Daniel Suarez, Ryan Blaney, and Bubba Wallace filled out the remainder of the top ten.

"It's really awesome," said Reddick. "This Toyota Camry was really solid in practice. We elected to give up rolling out first (in practice) to get those adjustments we wanted to. Really, really good handling. Just proud of everyone's effort here at 23XI. We've been solid. We had that stretch where we were really tough to beat here and we've worked hard to improve that. To have a Saturday go like this -- just smooth with great handling is exactly what we want to see."

Tyler Reddick and Denny Hamlin with Michael Jordan after Kansas qualifying (Photo by: Sean Gardner / Getty Images)

Qualifying recap

Heim was the first driver out and set the benchmark at 29.664s. Van Gisbergen then bested him by over a tenth for provisional pole, and held it for a little bit until Byron eclipsed him by 0.033s.

But it was Bell who blew them all away with a 29.325s lap, leading the first half of qualifying.

Things picked up in the second half of qualifying, with Suarez rocketing to the top of the charts, but only briefly as Buescher took over by a mere 0.003 with a 29.227s. But again, it didn't last long as Hocevar went to the top with a 29.212s.

But the JGR duo of Hamlin and Briscoe quickly toppled that, and while Larson got close before losing time in the final corner, the only car that could beat Hamlin was another Toyota.

There were no crashes in qualifying, but Ty Dillon, who will start last, got into the wall on his flying lap.

Photos from Kansas - Saturday

Full starting lineup

cla	#	driver	manufacturer	time	gap	mph
1	45	Tyler Reddick	Toyota	29.142		185.300
2	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	29.161	0.019	185.179
3	5	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	29.192	0.050	184.982
4	54	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	29.192	0.050	184.982
5	19	Chase Briscoe	Toyota	29.199	0.057	184.938
6	77	Carson Hocevar	Chevrolet	29.212	0.070	184.856
7	17	Chris Buescher	Ford	29.227	0.085	184.761
8	7	Daniel Suarez	Chevrolet	29.230	0.088	184.742
9	12	Ryan Blaney	Ford	29.231	0.089	184.735
10	23	Bubba Wallace	Toyota	29.280	0.138	184.426
11	20	Christopher Bell	Toyota	29.325	0.183	184.143
12	60	Ryan Preece	Ford	29.367	0.225	183.880
13	9	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	29.402	0.260	183.661
14	24	William Byron	Chevrolet	29.504	0.362	183.026
15	22	Joey Logano	Ford	29.507	0.365	183.007
16	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	Chevrolet	29.532	0.390	182.852
17	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Chevrolet	29.537	0.395	182.822
18	71	Michael McDowell	Chevrolet	29.541	0.399	182.797
19	43	Erik Jones	Toyota	29.561	0.419	182.673
20	3	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	29.569	0.427	182.624
21	6	Brad Keselowski	Ford	29.577	0.435	182.574
22	35	Riley Herbst	Toyota	29.583	0.441	182.537
23	8	Kyle Busch	Chevrolet	29.653	0.511	182.106
24	67	Corey Heim	Toyota	29.664	0.522	182.039
25	38	Zane Smith	Ford	29.670	0.528	182.002
26	34	Todd Gilliland	Ford	29.723	0.581	181.677
27	16	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	29.726	0.584	181.659
28	41	Cole Custer	Chevrolet	29.739	0.597	181.580
29	4	Noah Gragson	Ford	29.739	0.597	181.580
30	21	Josh Berry	Ford	29.768	0.626	181.403
31	1	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	29.781	0.639	181.324
32	42	John Hunter Nemechek	Toyota	29.831	0.689	181.020
33	48	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	29.849	0.707	180.911
34	2	Austin Cindric	Ford	30.014	0.872	179.916
35	51	Cody Ware	Chevrolet	30.199	1.057	178.814
36	88	Connor Zilisch	Chevrolet	30.246	1.104	178.536
37	10	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	31.364	2.222	172.172