With Denny Hamlin’s dramatic win in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup race at Nashville, he’s 97pts behind of 23XI Racing driver Tyler Reddick within the battle for the factors lead.
Across the cut-line, Austin Cindric has moved again inside the highest 16, and is now two factors forward of Ryan Preece, who recorded a DNF at Nashville. Joey Logano is the next-closest, 9 factors again.
The most important mover within the factors this week is Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who jumped three positions from twenty sixth to twenty third with a prime 5 end. The most important losers are AJ Allmendinger (nineteenth to twenty second) and Ross Chastain (twenty third to twenty sixth), as every dropped three positions within the standings.
Be aware: Kyle Busch scored 217 factors throughout the 2026 season earlier than his tragic passing. Following NASCAR’s resolution to take action, now we have additionally eliminated Kyle from the championship standings you see beneath
2026 NASCAR Cup factors after Nashville (Race 14 of 36)
Pos.
Driver
Factors
Positions gained or misplaced
1
Tyler ReddickÂ
657
—
2
Denny Hamlin
560
—
3
Ryan Blaney
483
—
4
Chase Elliott
460
+1
5
Ty Gibbs
449
-1
6
Kyle Larson
409
—
7
Christopher Bell
399
+1
8
Chris Buescher
393
-1
9
Carson Hocevar
383
—
10
Daniel Suarez
378
—
11
William Byron
352
+1
12
Shane van Gisbergen
348
+2
13
Brad Keselowski
347
-2
14
Chase Briscoe
343
+1
15
Bubba Wallace
338
-2
16
Austin Cindric
306
+1
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17
Ryan Preece
304
-1
18
Joey Logano
297
—
19
Michael McDowell
275
+1
20
Zane Smith
272
+1
21
Erik Jones
270
+1
22
AJ Allmendinger
266
-3
23
Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
263
+3
24
Austin Dillon
244
—
25
Todd Gilliland
240
—
26
Ross Chastain
239
-3
27
Riley Herbst
224
—
28
John Hunter Nemechek
213
—
29
Noah Gragson
202
—
30
Ty Dillon
177
+1
31
Josh Berry
174
-1
32
Alex Bowman
160
—
33
Cole Custer
150
+1
34
Connor Zilisch
147
-1
35
Cody Ware
117
—
37
Casey Mears
9
—
38
Katherine Legge
8
+1
39
BJ McLeod
2
-1
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