Joe Gibbs Racing qualified one through four for the first time ever and Hamlin has the pole at the track he has won the last two times. The fastest car in practice starts eighth. The best long-run car starts fifth. Five tires came apart in 50 minutes. Every car, every window.
The Speed Board The field shrinks as the runs get longer. All 36 drivers have a five-lap number, 34 have a ten, 21 have a fifteen and only nine strung together twenty consecutive green laps; nobody ran twenty-five, so the 25L and 30L columns are empty by fact, not by omission. A rank at twenty laps is a rank out of nine, not out of 36.
Best laps are read from the official lap chart to the hundredth. Every cell was computed from the official lap chart and checked against the official consecutive-lap table, 136 of 136. “ ” “ ” Four Joe Gibbs Toyotas in the first four spots, a first for the team, and Hamlin on the pole at the track he has won the last two times.
The fastest car in practice starts eighth. The best long-run car starts fifth. Five tires came apart in 50 minutes and two cars are in backups.
Every driver, decoded. By PitByNumbers Staff · Las Vegas Motor Speedway · Practice & Qualifying · 36-Driver Read · Sunday, October 4, 2026 · 5:30 PM ET · USA Network - Denny Hamlin took the pole by seventeen thousandths over Ty Gibbs, and Joe Gibbs Racing qualified one through four for the first time ever. Toyotas one through five.
- William Byron ran the fastest lap of practice on his fourth lap, the best five-lap average and the best overall average. He starts eighth. - Tyler Reddick owns the 15 and 20-lap columns and ties Byron for the best overall average.
Daniel Suarez is second in both long windows. They start fifth and 11th. - Five tires let go: Reddick, Gibbs, Buescher, Berry and Gragson.
Berry and Gragson are in backup cars with no qualifying time, 35th and 36th. Nobody ran 25 straight laps. Every window, every driver, ranked.
136 of 136 cells checked against the official table. The board does not care where anybody qualified.