Starting Lineup: NASCAR Cup Series Food City 500 at Bristol

Alex Bowman took the pole position for Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series event at Bristol Motor Speedway with a qualifying lap time of 14.912 seconds (128.675 mph) in Saturday's qualifying session. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will start alongside of Bowman on the front row, and the duo will lead the field into Turn 1 in Sunday's Food City 500.

Bowman won the pole position by a margin of 0.013 seconds.

Here is the official starting lineup for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, the ninth race of the 36-race NASCAR Cup Series season.

Pos	Car	Driver	Team	Lap time
1	48	Alex Bowman	Hendrick Motorsports	14.912
2	47	Rciky Stenhouse Jr.	HYAK Motorsports	14.925
3	5	Kyle Larson	Hendrick Motorsports	14.931
4	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	14.937
5	12	Ryan Blaney	Team Penske	14.955
6	54	Ty Gibbs	Joe Gibbs Racing	14.964
7	20	Christopher Bell	Joe Gibbs Racing	14.969
8	16	AJ Allmendinger	Kaulig Racing	15.002
9	77	Carson Hocevar	Spire Motorsports	15.019
10	7	Justin Haley	Spire Motorsports	15.030
11	21	Josh Berry	Wood Brothers Racing	15.058
12	10	Ty Dillon	Kaulig Racing	15.074
13	71	Michael McDowell	Spire Motorsports	15.075
14	19	Chase Briscoe	Joe Gibbs Racing	15.088
15	8	Kyle Busch	Richard Childress Racing	15.097
16	6	Brad Keselowski	RFK Racing	15.098
17	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	15.099
18	38	Zane Smith	Front Row Motorsports	15.130
19	33	Jesse Love * (i)	Richard Childress Racing	15.137
20	9	Chase Elliott	Hendrick Motorsports	15.138
21	2	Austin Cindric	Team Penske	15.149
22	23	Bubba Wallace	23XI Racing	15.193
23	99	Daniel Suarez	Trackhouse Racing	15.204
24	17	Chris Buescher	RFK Racing	15.246
25	35	Riley Herbst #	23XI Racing	15.247
26	24	William Byron	Hendrick Motorsports	15.263
27	45	Tyler Reddick	23XI Racing	15.268
28	43	Erik Jones	LEGACY MOTOR CLUB	15.274
29	60	Ryan Preece	RFK Racing	15.290
30	34	Todd Gilliland	Front Row Motorsports	15.297
31	4	Noah Gragson	Front Row Motorsports	15.301
32	42	John Hunter Nemechek	LEGACY MOTOR CLUB	15.304
33	41	Cole Custer	Haas Factory Team	15.322
34	51	Cody Ware	Rick Ware Racing	15.441
35	1	Ross Chastain	Trackhouse Racing	15.448
36	88	Shane van Gisbergen #	Trackhouse Racing	15.569
37	01	Corey LaJoie *	Rick Ware Racing	15.641
38	22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	16.275
39	66	Josh Bilicki * (i)	Garage 66	16.348

# indicates Rookie of the Year contender
* indicates "Open" entry
(i) indicates driver ineligible to score NASCAR Cup Series points

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