Sunday’s NASCAR race delivered plenty of surprises, with Shane van Gisbergen picking up a DNF and Brad Keselowski struggling plus a first-time winner and a few more upsets inside the top 10. Naturally, that delivers quite a bit of movement in the NASCAR standings right now.
Let’s take a look at the NASCAR Cup Series points leaders today. Our table examines how many points the top 16 drivers are above The Chase cutline and how far everyone 17th and below is from the cutline.
NASCAR Points Leaders Right Now: The Chase Standings after San Diego
PositionDriverPointsAbove/Below Cutline1Tyler Reddick716+3542Denny Hamlin708+3463Ryan Blaney583+2214Kyle Larson536+1745Ty Gibbs535+1736Chase Elliott534+1727Chris Buescher500+1388Daniel Suárez478+1169Carson Hocevar476+11410Chase Briscoe431+6911Bubba Wallace429+6712Christopher Bell422+6013William Byron421+5914Erik Jones372+1015Austin Cindric370+816 – CutlineRyan Preece367+517Shane van Gisbergen362-518Joey Logano357-1019Brad Keselowski354-1320AJ Allmendinger346-2121Michael McDowell333-3422Ross Chastain327-4023Zane Smith316-5124Riley Herbst309-5825Todd Gilliland306-6126Ricky Stenhouse Jr.303-6427John Hunter Nemechek298-6928Austin Dillon270-9729Noah Gragsson216-15130Josh Berry208-15931Ty Dillon202-16532Alex Bowman199-16833Cole Custer194-17334Connor Zilisch (R)165-20235Cody Ware152-215
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