The ‘Chase’ is on at Dover: Rain puts Elliott, Briscoe on NASCAR Cup front row
DOVER, Del. — The “Chase” is on at Dover Motor Speedway as Chase Elliott and Chase Briscoe will start on the front row for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race.
Rain canceled practice and qualifying for the NASCAR Cup Series’ AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 400 at Dover, setting the qualifying results and starting lineup by the metric.
Driver Chase Elliott and his team sit second in the respective standings, earning them an edge on the grid over Chase Briscoe and his team who sit eighth in the respective standings.
Briscoe and Elliott are coming off of finishing second and third at Sonoma to Shane van Gisbergen. SVG will start sixth, by far his best oval start ever. His previous-best was 23rd at Pocono and Nashville in June.
Kyle Busch will start 10th. In each of the last two Cup races at Dover, Busch won the pole and led at least 25 laps. During the first NextGen race at Dover, he started 10th, led 103 laps and finished seventh. Between 2024 and 2022, he has averaged 10 stage points per race. A repeat of that would be big. Busch sits 37 points below the playoff cutline with six races to go in the regular season.
On the other end are championship favorites Kyle Larson and Ryan Blaney. Late in the race at Sonoma, they crashed and finished 35th and 36th, sinking their metric and their starting positions at Dover. Larson will start 25th while Blaney will start 31st.
At Dover in 2024, Larson led 39 of 400 laps and finished second to Denny Hamlin while Blaney led 47 laps and finished seventh.
NASCAR Cup Series Qualifying Results and Lineup at Dover 2025
- Chase Elliott
- Chase Briscoe
- Christopher Bell
- Tyler Reddick
- William Byron
- Shane van Gisbergen
- Michael McDowell
- Joey Logano
- Ty Gibbs
- Kyle Busch
- Ryan Preece
- Chris Buescher
- Denny Hamlin
- Josh Berry
- Brad Keselowski
- Alex Bowman
- A.J. Allmendinger
- Daniel Suarez
- Ross Chastain
- Justin Haley
- Ty Dillon
- Bubba Wallace
- Austin Dillon
- Todd Gilliland
- Kyle Larson
- Austin Cindric
- Erik Jones
- John Hunter Nemechek
- Cole Custer
- Zane Smith
- Ryan Blaney
- Riley Herbst
- Carson Hocevar
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Cody Ware
- Noah Gragson
- J.J. Yeley
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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.
A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.
Fjeld has covered a wide array of stories and moments over the years, including Kevin Harvick's final Cup Series season, the first NASCAR national series disqualification in over 50 years, Shane van Gisbergen's stunning win in Chicago and the first Cup Series race at Road America in 66 years – as well as up-and-coming drivers' stories and stories from inside the sport, like the tech it takes for Hendrick Motorsports to remain a top-tier team.
Currently, he resides in Albuquerque, N.M., where he works for KOB 4, an NBC station. He works as a digital producer and does on-air reports. He loves spending time with friends and family, playing and listening to music, exploring new places, being outdoors, reading books and writing among other activities. You can email him at fjeldjonathan@gmail.com