LINCOLN, Ala. — All three NASCAR national series head to Talladega Superspeedway to race in the Chase as we enter the final three weeks of the 2026 season.

The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series will race late Friday afternoon, while the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series will race Saturday afternoon and the NASCAR Cup Series will race Sunday afternoon.

NASCAR Cup Series at Talladega Race Info

• Sunday, Oct. 25, at 2 p.m. ET
• TV: NBC (Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90)
• Qualifying: Saturday at 1 p.m. ET on truTV
• Last year's winner: Chase Briscoe (Spring winner: Carson Hocevar)

Three open, part-time entries will be in this Sunday's race: 

Casey Mears will inch closer to 500 NASCAR Cup Series starts in a ride with Beard Motorsports' No. 62 Chevrolet. Sunday will mark Mears' 499th career start.

Gray Gaulding will race in Garage 66's Ford, while Daniel Dye will race BJ McLeod's No. 78 Chevrolet. Each driver is making a comeback after being suspended by NASCAR at one point.

Brad Keselowski leads the field with six wins at Talladega. Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin are close behind with three wins and two wins, respectively, at Talladega. However, none of them have won since the Gen 6 era.

Ryan Blaney has three wins, including a NextGen win in fall 2023. 

Blaney and the aforementioned Briscoe and Hocevar are among the nine different winners seen at Talladega in the NextGen era. Among active drivers, that also includes Ross Chastain (spring 2022), Chase Elliott (fall 2022), Tyler Reddick (spring 2024), Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (fall 2024), Austin Cindric (spring 2025).

Odds for the NASCAR Cup Series Race at Talladega

Ryan Blaney sits at +1000 to win with Joey Logano at +1100. Team Penske is strong at the drafting tracks and oddsmakers believe they will show up strong with the Cup on the line.

• Ryan Blaney +1000
• Joey Logano +1100
• Chase Briscoe, Austin Cindric, Tyler Reddick +1400 each
• Brad Keselowski, Carson Hocevar, Christopher Bell +1500 each
• Denny Hamlin, William Byron, Kyle Larson +1600 each
• Chase Elliott, Bubba Wallace +1800 each
• Ross Chastain, Ty Gibbs +2000 each 
• Chris Buescher +2200
• Josh Berry +2800
• Daniel Suarez, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ryan Preece +3000
• Alex Bowman, Todd Gilliland, Austin Dillon +3500 each
• Michael McDowell, Zane Smith, Shane van Gisbergen, Erik Jones +5000 each
• Austin Hill +5500
• AJ Allmendinger +6500
• Connor Zilisch, John Hunter Nemechek +7000 each
• Noah Gragson +7500
• Riley Herbst +8000
• Cole Custer +8500
• Ty Dillon +10000
• Cody Ware +15000
• Joey Gase, Daniel Dye, Gray Gaulding, Casey Mears +25000 each

NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series at Talladega Race Info

• Saturday, Oct. 24, at 3:30 p.m. ET
• TV: The CW/ESPN Unlimited app (Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90)
• Qualifying: Saturday at 11 a.m. ET on The CW app
• Last year's winner: Austin Hill (Spring winner: Corey Day)

With 41 entries for 38 starting spots, three teams will miss the field.

Unique entries for the weekend include Caesar Bacarella in his No. 4 Alpha Prime Racing Chevrolet, Jake Finch back in JR Motorsports' No. 9 Chevrolet, Daniel Dye back in Jordan Anderson's No. 32 Chevrolet, Lee Pulliam in Peterson Racing Group's No. 87 Chevrolet and Leland Honeyman in DGM Racing's No. 71 Chevrolet.

Hill is tied with Jeb Burton at two Talladega wins. Hill also won in Spring 2025, while Burton won the spring race in 2021 and 2023. 

Sammy Smith won in fall 2024 after Jesse Love won that spring. Aside from Hill, Burton, Smith, Day and Love, no other driver entered this weekend has won a NOAPS race at Talladega.

Odds for NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series Race at Talladega

Richard Childress Racing's Austin Hill and Jesse Love, who have dominated Talladega in the series, are the favorites to win Saturday:

• Austin Hill +400
• Jesse Love +550
• Carson Kvapil, Sam Mayer +1000 each
• Justin Allgaier, Sheldon Creed +1200 each
• Corey Day +1500
• Sammy Smith +1600
• Brent Crews, Taylor Gray +2000 each
• Brandon Jones +2200 
• Rajah Caruth +2500
• Jeb Burton, William Sawalich +2800 each
• Ryan Sieg, Parker Retzlaff +3000 each
• Harrison Burton, Anthony Alfredo +4000 each
• Leland Honeyman +4500 
• Jeremy Clements +5000
• Dean Thompson +5500
• Jake Finch +6000
• Connor Mosack +7000
• Josh Williams, Lee Pulliam, Brennan Poole +7500 each
• Kyle Sieg, Daniel Dye, Patrick Staropoli, Ryan Ellis +10000
• Mason Maggio, Blaine Perkins +12500 each 
• Will Rodgers, Nick Leitz, Josh Bilicki +15000 each
• Joey Gase +20000
• Caesar Bacarella, Lavar Scott, Carson Ware, Garrett Smithley, Patrick Emerling +25000 each

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at Talladega Race Info

• Friday, Oct. 23, at 4 p.m. ET
• TV: FS1 (Radio: NASCAR Racing Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90)
• Qualifying: Friday at 12:30 p.m. ET on FS2
• Last year's winner: Gio Ruggiero

With 38 entries for 36 spots, two teams will miss the field. 

Tony Stewart is back for his second start of the season with Kaulig Racing's No. 25 'Free Agent' truck. He also raced at Daytona but crashed out early on in the race.

Known as Cleetus McFarland and by the government as Garrett Mitchell, the YouTube star racer will race again this weekend at Talladega. He'll drive Niece Motorsports' No. 4 Chevrolet.

Fresh off a top-five finish in the NASCAR Cup Series at Phoenix Raceway, Corey Heim will try to make his No. 1 truck of good assistance to TRICON Garage teammate and points leader Kaden Honeycutt to help him secure a solid day at Talladega. Heim and Honeycutt will have Thomas Annunziata as their teammate in the No. 5 truck.

NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series driver Austin Green will race Spire Motorsports' No. 77 Chevrolet.

At the ripe age of 74 years old, Norm Benning is back in the No. 6 Chevrolet. Clay Greenfield is back in his own No. 95 Chevrolet to try and finally get a drafting track win in Trucks.

In the red No. 28 FDNY Racing Chevrolet, Bryan Dauzat will make one of his last NCTS starts. Cory Roper will race Stewart Friesen's No. 62 Toyota. 

Spencer Boyd is also in the field in his No. 76 Freedom Racing Chevrolet. As the 2019 winner at Talladega, he, Ruggiero and Grant Enfinger are the three former Talladega winners. Enfinger won in 2016 and 2024.

Odds for NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Race at Talladega

Oddsmakers clearly took notice of Corey Heim entering the race as he is the favorite to win at +650, ahead of championship contenders Kaden Honeycutt and Layne Riggs

• Corey Heim +650
• Kaden Honeycutt, Layne Riggs +800 each
• Chandler Smith +1100 
• Gio Ruggiero, Christian Eckes +1200 each
• Grant Enfinger +1400 
• Ty Majeski, Ben Rhodes +1500 each
• Corey LaJoie +1600
• Sammy Smith +2000
• Justin Haley +2200
• Jake Garcia, Daniel Hemric, Landen Lewis +2500 each
• Stewart Friesen +2800
• Tanner Gray, Austin Green, Tyler Ankrum +3000 each
• Tony Stewart +5000
• Thomas Annunziata, Cleetus McFarland +5500 each 
• Cole Butcher, Conner Jones +6000 each
• Andres Perez +6500
• Brenden "Butterbean" Queen +7500
• Cory Roper, Dawson Sutton, Kris Wright, Spencer Boyd +10000 each
• Jason White, Mini Tyrrell +15000 each
• Clay Greenfield, Norm Benning, Josh Reaume, Timmy Hill, Bryan Dauzat, Frankie Muniz +25000 each