Surprisingly, Denny Hamlin managed to edge nearer to Tyler Reddick within the factors battle after the San Diego road course race.
Whereas battling for the race win, Tyler Reddick made contact with teammate Corey Heim, and reduce a left-front tire down quickly after. That price him over 20 factors as he fell to twenty fifth within the operating order. Hamlin completed 14th, slicing the margin from 19 factors to only eight coming into Sonoma Raceway.
The largest gainer within the standings is Ryan Preece, who vaulted again up into the Chase, transferring from nineteenth to sixteenth after a powerful factors day in San Diego. Shane van Gisbergen’s promising day led to an enormous crash, dropping him three positions within the standings to seventeenth, now 5 factors out.
However SVG wasn’t truly the most important loser general, as Ricky Stenhouse Jr. dropped 4 positions from twenty second to twenty sixth.
There’s additionally a brand new driver popping up inside the highest ten, with Chase Briscoe changing Christopher Bell in P10.
2026 NASCAR Cup factors after San Diego (Race 17 of 36)
Pos.
Driver
Factors
Positions gained or misplaced
1
Tyler ReddickÂ
716
—
2
Denny Hamlin
708
—
3
Ryan Blaney
583
—
4
Kyle Larson
536
+2
5
Ty Gibbs
535
—
6
Chase Elliott
534
-2
7
Chris Buescher
500
—
8
Daniel Suarez
478
—
9
Carson Hocevar
476
—
10
Chase Briscoe
431
+2
11
Bubba Wallace
429
+2
12
Christopher Bell
422
-2
13
William Byron
421
-2
14
Erik Jones
372
+1
15
Austin Cindric
370
+1
16
Ryan Preece
367
+3
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17
Shane van Gisbergen
362
-3
18
Joey Logano
357
—
19
Brad Keselowski
354
-2
20
AJ Allmendinger
346
+1
21
Michael McDowell
333
-1
22
Ross Chastain
327
+1
23
Zane Smith
316
+1
24
Riley Herbst
309
+3
25
Todd Gilliland
306
—
26
Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
303
-4
27
John Hunter Nemechek
298
-1
28
Austin Dillon
270
—
29
Noah Gragson
216
—
30
Josh Berry
208
—
31
Ty Dillon
202
—
32
Alex Bowman
199
—
33
Cole Custer
194
—
34
Connor Zilisch
165
—
35
Cody Ware
152
—
36
Kevin Magnussen
11
N/A
37
Casey Mears
10
-1
38
Jimmie Johnson
9
N/A
39
Katherine Legge
8
-2
40
BJ McLeod
3
-2
Word: Kyle Busch scored 217 factors earlier than his tragic passing, and we’ve adopted NASCAR’s determination to now not classify Busch within the weekly driver standings.
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