{"id":58539,"date":"2026-05-23T13:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/?p=58539"},"modified":"2026-05-23T18:33:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:33:57","slug":"nascar-cup-qualifying-for-coca-cola-600-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/nascar-cup-qualifying-for-coca-cola-600-canceled\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Cup qualifying for Coca-Cola 600 canceled \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service<\/em><\/p>\n

CONCORD, N.C.\u2014Saturday\u2019s Qualifying session for the Coca-Cola 600 has been canceled because of continued adverse weather at Charlotte Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n

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Chase Briscoe, driver of the #19 Bass Pro Shops Toyota, and Kyle Larson, driver of the #5 HendrickCars.com Hendrick 1100 Chevrolet, lead the field on a pace lap prior to the NASCAR Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 25, 2025 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

Accordingly, NASCAR Cup Series leader Tyler Reddick will start from the pole position (based on metrics) in NASCAR\u2019s longest race (6 p.m. ET Sunday on FS1, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).<\/p>\n

Reddick\u2019s best finish on the 1.5-mile Charlotte oval is fourth in the rain-shortened 2024 Coke 600.<\/p>\n

Ty Gibbs will start from the second position on the outside of the front row, with Watkins Glen winner Shane van Gisbergen and Glen runner-up Michael McDowell making up the second row.<\/p>\n

Defending race winner Ross Chastain will start 27th.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt used to be the Coke 600 qualifying was not really all that important, because it was such a long race,\u201d said 2020 Coca-Cola 600 winner Brad Keselowski, who will start 26th.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow it\u2019s probably even more important than any other race because you\u2019re guaranteed to have a number of yellow flag pit stops, and if you don\u2019t qualify well, your pit selection is really problematic and can keep you from having a good day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service CONCORD, N.C.\u2014Saturday\u2019s Qualifying session for the Coca-Cola 600 has been canceled because of continued adverse weather at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Accordingly, NASCAR Cup Series leader Tyler Reddick will start from the pole position (based on metrics) in NASCAR\u2019s longest race (6 p.m. ET Sunday on FS1, PRN and SiriusXM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":52411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[233,245,16],"class_list":["post-58539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","tag-charlotte-motor-speedway","tag-coca-cola-600","tag-nascar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2217033539-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1706&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7hzTZ-feb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58540,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58539\/revisions\/58540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}