Reddick on Talladega pole after qualifying washout

Tyler Reddick will lead the field to the green flag in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway after rain washed out qualifying.

Reddick is the most recent winner on the circuit. The No. 45 team from 23XI Racing has won five of the first nine races and leads the Cup Series championship standings. They also won the spring race at Talladega in 2024.

Kyle Larson will join Reddick on the front row.

Denny Hamlin will start third, with Bubba Wallace fourth, and Chase Briscoe fifth. Brad Keselowski will start sixth, William Byron seventh, and Chase Elliott in eighth.

The last of the top 10 starters will be Ty Gibbs in ninth and Chris Buescher in 10th.

Austin Cindric will start 13th. Cindric is the defending race winner.

Alex Bowman will start 20th, and Joey Logano will start 25th. Connor Zilisch will start 32nd, Shane van Gisbergen in 33rd, and Kyle Busch in 34th.

There will be a full field of 40 drivers who take the green flag in the Jack Link’s 500.

The Open teams who made the field are Jesse Love for Richard Childress Racing, Chad Finchum for Garage 66, Joey Gase for NY Racing Team, and Daniel Dye for Live Fast Motorsports. There was one driver, Casey Mears, who did not make the field for Beard Motorsports.

Mears and Beard had announced a five-race deal that would bring Mears to his 500th career start in the series. Talladega was set to be one of those starts.

Sunday will be the third drafting race of the season (Reddick won the first two at Daytona and EchoPark Speedway). NASCAR has tweaked the stage lengths at Talladega in hopes of combating fuel-saving strategies by making the first stage longer than the other two.

The first stage will end on lap 98, and the second stage will end on lap 143. The full race distance is scheduled for 188 laps.

NEXT: The Jack Link’s 500 at 3pm ET Sunday.