After 18 of 36 races, we now have a brand new NASCAR Cup Sequence championship chief for the very first time, and it happened in messy trend.
An influence steering failure for Tyler Reddick left him with a last-place end, whereas Denny Hamlin struggled with splitter injury after a late-race spin, ending twenty sixth. Whereas Reddick secured the quickest lap bonus, Hamlin’s outcome was sufficient to erase the eight-point deficit and transfer the motive force of the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota into the championship lead, a single level.
The largest mover within the standings is definitely race winner Shane van Gisbergen, who jumped three positions again contained in the Chase, now 14th and +36pts over the cut-line. Alex Bowman was one other huge mover, albeit far deeper within the standings, leaping three positions from thirty second to twenty ninth after a high ten end.
The largest loser was Erik Jones, who dropped three positions right down to seventeenth, falling exterior of the Chase. Austin Cindric now sits on the bubble, 12 factors forward of Jones after the ultimate highway course race of the 2026 season.
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2026 NASCAR Cup factors after Sonoma (Race 18 of 36)
Observe: Kyle Busch scored 217 factors earlier than his tragic passing, and we now have adopted NASCAR’s determination to not classify Busch within the weekly driver standings.
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