Qualifying for the last two rounds of the 2026 Indy NXT season at Laguna Seca Raceway have been completed. View the full results here.
With qualifying setting the grid for both races, drivers will need two fast laps for the weekend.
Nikita Johnson enters the weekend, leading Enzo Fittipaldi by three points in the championship. Tymek Kucharczyk trails by 29 points.
Group 1
Kucharczyk is the first driver with a representative laptime, a 1:15.077. He is followed by Max Garcia and Alessandro de Tullio.
Jacob Abel slots into second with Seb Murray following him into third place.
Nolan Allaer gets his No. 76 Juncos Hollinger facing the wrong way for a few moments, before getting righted again. He puts his machine in fourth, with a 1:14.755.
Kucharczyk improves his time, with a 1:13.848. He is two-tenths ahead of ABEL Motorsports teammates Myles Rowe and Jacob Abel.
- Kucharczyk
- Rowe
- Abel
- Garcia
- Nannini
- de Tullio
- Allaer
- Murray
- Harrison
- Stati
- Roe
- Monteiro
Group 2
The Andretti teammates are the first to the top of the timesheets, Hughes leading Taylor and Pierson.
Jack Beeton sets a 1:14.678 for third place, before being pipped by JM Correa’s 1:14.667.
Pierson improves his time to a 1:13.904, good enough for first, but not for overall pole.
Nikita Johnson jumps up to second, followed by Enzo Fittipaldi in third. Pierson improves his time for overall pole, with a 1:13.635.
- Pierson
- Koolen
- Johnson
- Aron
- Hughes
- Correa
- Fittipaldi
- Beeton
- Taylor
- Kaminsky
- Koreiba
- Etter
2026 Indy NXT Laguna Seca | Qualifying results for round 16
- Pierson
- Kucharczyk
- Koolen
- Rowe
- Johnson
- Abel
- Aron
- Garcia
- Hughes
- Nannini
- Correa
- de Tullio
- Fittipaldi
- Allaer
- Beeton
- Murray
- Taylor
- Harrison
- Kaminsky
- Stati
- Koreiba
- Roe
- Etter
- Monteiro
2026 Indy NXT Laguna Seca | Qualifying results for round 17
- Kucharczyk
- Pierson
- Rowe
- Koolen
- Garcia
- Johnson
- Abel
- Hughes
- Nannini
- Aron
- de Tullio
- Fittipaldi
- Allaer
- Taylor
- Murray
- Beeton
- Harrison
- Correa
- Stati
- Kaminsky
- Roe
- Koreiba
- Monteiro
- Etter
