Full 2025 Daytona 500 starting lineup confirmed after Duel controversy

The full starting lineup for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season-opening Daytona 500 is set following the qualifying session and the two Duel races.

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After Joe Gibbs Racing's Chase Briscoe and Team Penske's Austin Cindric clinched spots on the front row for Sunday afternoon's 67th annual Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway in Wednesday night's qualifying session, the full starting lineup was set on Thursday night with the two Duel at Daytona qualifying races.

These two 60-lap races also solidified which non-chartered (open) cars are set to take part in Sunday's 200-lap "Great American Race" around the four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) high-banked Daytona Beach, Florida oval, and which will not.

23XI Racing's Bubba Wallace won the first Duel to solidify a third place starting spot, while Cindric won the second Duel. As a result, runner-up finisher Erik Jones of Legacy Motor Club solidified the fourth place starting spot, since Cindric was already locked into P2.

Jones was initially declared the race winner, having beaten Cindric to the finish line, but it was determined that Cindric was actually ahead of him when the caution light came on due to a multi-car wreck. Jones would have locked up the fourth place starting spot even had he remained the winner.

JR Motorsports' Justin Allgaier and Rick Ware Racing's Corey LaJoie both raced their way into the event by being the top finishers among drivers of the open cars in their respective Duel races, meaning that Tricon Garage' Martin Truex Jr. and Legacy Motor Club's Jimmie Johnson, who locked in on speed on Wednesday night, are indeed locked in on speed, rather than their Duel results.

Trackhouse Racing's Helio Castroneves did not qualify, but he was able to fall back on his "world-class driver" provisional to lock in as the 41st driver.

Here is the full starting lineup for the 2025 Daytona 500.

1st - Chase Briscoe, No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota

2nd - Austin Cindric, No. 2 Team Penske Ford

3rd - Bubba Wallace, No. 23 23XI Racing Toyota

4th - Erik Jones, No. 43 Legacy Motor Club Toyota

5th - William Byron, No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

6th - Chris Buescher, No. 17 RFK Racing Ford

7th - Ty Dillon, No. 10 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet

8th - Denny Hamlin, No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota

9th - Ross Chastain, No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Team Chevrolet

10th - Joey Logano, No. 22 Team Penske Ford

11th - Tyler Reddick, No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota

12th - Corey LaJoie, No. 01 Rick Ware Racing Ford

13th - A.J. Allmendinger, No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet

14th - Todd Gilliland, No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford

15th - Austin Dillon, No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet

16th - Ryan Blaney, No. 12 Team Penske Ford

17th - Chase Elliott, No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

18th - John Hunter Nemechek, No. 42 Legacy Motor Club Toyota

19th - Justin Allgaier, No. 40 JR Motorsports Chevrolet

20th - Christopher Bell, No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota

21st - Kyle Busch, No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet

22nd - Kyle Larson, No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

23rd - Ty Gibbs, No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota

24th - Riley Herbst, No. 35 23XI Racing Toyota

25th - Michael McDowell, No. 71 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet

26th - Shane van Gisbergen, No. 88 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

27th - Ryan Preece, No. 60 RFK Racing Ford

28th - Cody Ware, No. 51 Rick Ware Racing Ford

29th - Josh Berry, No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford

30th - Cole Custer, No. 41 Haas Factory Team Ford

31st - Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 47 Hyak Motorsports Chevrolet

32nd - Noah Gragson, No. 4 Front Row Motorsports Ford

33rd - Carson Hocevar, No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet

34th - Brad Keselowski, No. 6 RFK Racing Ford

35th - Justin Haley, No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet

36th - Daniel Suarez, No. 99 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

37th - Zane Smith, No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford

38th - Alex Bowman, No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

39th - Martin Truex Jr., No. 56 Tricon Garage Toyota

40th - Jimmie Johnson, No. 84 Legacy Motor Club Toyota

41st - Helio Castroneves, No. 91 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet

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