With simply two races left earlier than the Chase reset, Denny Hamlin holds a 115-point lead within the championship. After the reset, it will likely be diminished to only 25 over whoever is second. After Richmond, that driver is now Ryan Blaney, who jumped again forward of Ty Gibbs.
The most important mover within the standings was simply Joey Logano, rocketing up 4 positions to ninth after profitable the Cup race at Richmond. The most important loser was Carson Hocevar for the second consecutive week, dropping three spots to eleventh after being the lone DNF on Saturday night time.
Within the battle to make the Chase, Austin Cindric pulled himself off the bubble together with his greatest results of the season, gathering a number of stage factors and ending third.
Abruptly, Shane van Gisbergen is now on the bubble, however he’s a full 50 factors away from his closest pursuer — Ryan Preece in seventeenth. Ross Chastain, who made large positive factors at Iowa, fell again to -63pts after Cindric’s large day.
The highest seven drivers within the standings have mathematically clinched a spot within the Chase after Richmond. The Cup Sequence now heads to New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Learn Additionally:
2026 NASCAR Cup factors after Richmond (Race 24 of 36)
Notice: Kyle Busch scored 217 factors earlier than his tragic passing, and we now have adopted NASCAR’s choice to not classify Busch within the weekly driver standings.
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