A native Hoosier will be leading the field to green in the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday (July 27).
Chase Briscoe, hailing for Mitchell, Ind., captured the Cup Series pole with a lap time of 49.136 seconds and a speed of 183.165 mph. It is Briscoe’s series-leading fifth pole of 2025 after earning just two poles in his previous four full-time seasons combined.
Indiana's own gets it done!@chasebriscoe wins the #BuschLightPole for the #Brickyard400! pic.twitter.com/yzUvyDOtcm
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) July 26, 2025
Briscoe’s pole was part of an all-Toyota top five in qualifying. Bubba Wallace will join Briscoe on the front row, followed by Erik Jones in third, Tyler Reddick in fourth, and Ty Gibbs rounding out the top five.
Positions sixth through 10th went to William Byron, Chris Buescher, Carson Hocevar, AJ Allmendinger, and Austin Cindric, respectively.
Defending Brickyard 400 winner Kyle Larson will roll off 13th on Sunday. Ty Dillon, Gibbs’ opponent in the In-Season Challenge final, will have some work to do, starting back in 26th.
Denny Hamlin was the last driver to run in qualifying, but he spun off of turn 2 and then hit the inside wall. Hamlin will start the Brickyard 400 dead last in 39th.
With 39 cars in the field, all the drivers made the field and no one is going home.
Cup Series Brickyard 400 Starting Lineup
The Brickyard 400 from Indianapolis will start at 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 27. The TV broadcast will be on TNT Sports, with radio coverage broadcasted by Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, Channel 90.
Andrew Stoddard joined Frontstretch in May of 2022 as an iRacing contributor. He is a graduate of Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Richmond, and VCU. He works as an athletic communications specialist at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va.