Starting Lineup: NASCAR Xfinity Wawa 250 at Daytona

The starting lineup for Friday night's NASCAR Xfinity Series Wawa 250 at Daytona International Speedway was set by the NASCAR Performance Metric Formula as the qualifying session was cut short due to lightning in the area at the 2.5-mile superspeedway.
Connor Zilisch, who plans to relinquish his car at the first caution to Parker Kligerman as Zilisch continues to recover from a broken collarbone, will start from the pole position. Zilisch will be joined on the front row by Haas Factory Team's Sam Mayer.
Here is the official starting lineup for the 2025 NASCAR Xfinity Series Wawa 250 at Daytona:
Pos | Car | Driver | Metric Score |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | 88 | Connor Zilisch # | 1.000 |
2 | 41 | Sam Mayer | 2.300 |
3 | 8 | Sammy Smith | 4.200 |
4 | 21 | Austin Hill | 4.300 |
5 | 7 | Justin Allgaier | 4.800 |
6 | 1 | Carson Kvapil # | 5.300 |
7 | 20 | Brandon Jones | 8.700 |
8 | 25 | Harrison Burton | 10.300 |
9 | 16 | Christian Eckes # | 10.400 |
10 | 2 | Jesse Love | 11.000 |
11 | 26 | Dean Thompson # | 14.200 |
12 | 44 | Brennan Poole | 14.400 |
13 | 27 | Jeb Burton | 15.400 |
14 | 54 | Taylor Gray # | 15.600 |
15 | 32 | Rajah Caruth (i) | 15.700 |
16 | 51 | Jeremy Clements | 17.100 |
17 | 10 | Daniel Dye # | 17.300 |
18 | 48 | Nick Sanchez # | 20.700 |
19 | 4 | Parker Retzlaff | 23.200 |
20 | 45 | Josh Williams | 23.500 |
21 | 11 | Justin Haley (i) | 23.800 |
22 | 39 | Ryan Sieg | 24.100 |
23 | 31 | Blaine Perkins | 24.500 |
24 | 18 | William Sawalich # | 25.100 |
25 | 53 | Joey Gase | 25.100 |
26 | 35 | Mason Maggio | 26.700 |
27 | 00 | Sheldon Creed | 27.200 |
28 | 91 | Josh Bilicki | 28.500 |
29 | 19 | Aric Almirola | 28.800 |
30 | 28 | Kyle Sieg | 29.100 |
31 | 71 | Ryan Ellis | 29.300 |
32 | 42 | Anthony Alfredo | 29.600 |
33 | 99 | Matt DiBenedetto | 30.600 |
34 | 07 | Patrick Emerling (i) | 33.100 |
35 | 70 | Leland Honeyman | 35.800 |
36 | 14 | Garrett Smithley | 37.100 |
37 | 5 | Caesar Bacarella | 40.100 |
38 | 92 | Natalie Decker | 42.200 |
# indicates Rookie of the Year contender
(i) indicates a driver ineligible to score points
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