Practice Results: 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville

While weather delays forced the cancellation of NASCAR Cup Series practice for Sunday’s Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville Superspeedway, NASCAR was able to carve out enough time for a 45-minute joint practice session.

Christopher Bell, the driver of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, was the fastest driver of the bunch in the practice, as he clocked in at 29.802 seconds, which allowed him to pace Ross Chastain by a margin of 0.022 seconds.

Denny Hamlin, Ty Gibbs, and Tyler Reddick rounded out the top-five fastest drivers in the session.

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Cracker Barrel 400 Practice Results

Rank	Car	Driver	Team	Make	B. Time	Diff	Speed	B. Lap	Laps
1	20	Christopher Bell	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	29.802	0.000	160.660	2	54
2	1	Ross Chastain	Trackhouse Racing	Chevrolet	29.824	0.022	160.542	2	36
3	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	29.827	0.025	160.526	3	50
4	54	Ty Gibbs	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	29.935	0.133	159.947	3	37
5	45	Tyler Reddick	23XI Racing	Toyota	29.937	0.135	159.936	3	42
6	16	AJ Allmendinger	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	29.941	0.139	159.914	3	42
7	5	Kyle Larson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	29.945	0.143	159.893	38	51
8	12	Ryan Blaney	Team Penske	Ford	29.952	0.150	159.856	8	46
9	19	Chase Briscoe	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	29.970	0.168	159.760	7	38
10	24	William Byron	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	30.004	0.202	159.579	2	43
11	35	Riley Herbst	23XI Racing	Toyota	30.006	0.204	159.568	5	45
12	9	Chase Elliott	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	30.018	0.216	159.504	5	52
13	17	Chris Buescher	RFK Racing	Ford	30.020	0.218	159.494	4	39
14	88	Connor Zilisch #	Trackhouse Racing	Chevrolet	30.024	0.222	159.472	11	46
15	2	Austin Cindric	Team Penske	Ford	30.042	0.240	159.377	8	30
16	77	Carson Hocevar	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet	30.044	0.242	159.366	3	35
17	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Hyak Motorsports	Chevrolet	30.061	0.259	159.276	14	39
18	42	John Hunter Nemechek	LEGACY MOTOR CLUB	Toyota	30.062	0.260	159.271	3	49
19	23	Bubba Wallace	23XI Racing	Toyota	30.064	0.262	159.260	3	40
20	67	* Corey Heim(i)	23XI Racing	Toyota	30.077	0.275	159.191	9	37
21	71	Michael McDowell	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet	30.078	0.276	159.186	5	45
22	43	Erik Jones	LEGACY MOTOR CLUB	Toyota	30.093	0.291	159.107	4	42
23	6	Brad Keselowski	RFK Racing	Ford	30.122	0.320	158.954	8	48
24	38	Zane Smith	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	30.123	0.321	158.948	3	37
25	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	30.130	0.328	158.911	11	40
26	48	Alex Bowman	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	30.158	0.356	158.764	11	44
27	10	Ty Dillon	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet	30.164	0.362	158.732	2	23
28	97	Shane Van Gisbergen	Trackhouse Racing	Chevrolet	30.171	0.369	158.695	7	49
29	33	Austin Hill(i)	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	30.188	0.386	158.606	6	52
30	51	Cody Ware	Rick Ware Racing	Chevrolet	30.209	0.407	158.496	3	16
31	22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford	30.212	0.410	158.480	9	45
32	21	Josh Berry	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	30.225	0.423	158.412	6	40
33	60	Ryan Preece	RFK Racing	Ford	30.269	0.467	158.182	3	33
34	4	Noah Gragson	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	30.286	0.484	158.093	18	36
35	41	Cole Custer	Haas Factory Team	Chevrolet	30.319	0.517	157.921	7	32
36	7	Daniel Suarez	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet	30.335	0.533	157.837	12	28
37	34	Todd Gilliland	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	30.387	0.585	157.567	5	27
38	66	* Chad Finchum(i)	Garage 66	Ford	31.325	1.523	152.849	7	40