The third points race of the 2026 NASCAR season has come to a close, with Circuit of the America delivering the first road course race this year. Driving on a road course means we got a bit of a shakeup on the Cup Series points leaderboard, as we see in the latest standings.

Here are the NASCAR points standings today following the DuraMax Texas Grand Prix at COTA.

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NASCAR Points Leaders Right Now: Standings after COTA

With the NASCAR points leaders, we’ve listed how many points behind Tyler Reddick the top-16 drivers are. For drivers below the cutline (16th), we’ve listed how many points they are below it.

Pos.DriverPointsBehind Leader/Below Cutline1Tyler Reddick186—2Bubba Wallace116-70 behind Reddick3Chase Elliott114-72 behind Reddick4Ryan Blaney100-86 behind Reddick5Shane van Gisbergen90-96 behind Reddick6Joey Logano90-96 behind Reddick7Daniel Suarez87-99 behind Reddick8AJ Allmendinger86-100 behind Reddick9Michael McDowell83-103 behind Reddick10Carson Hocevar82-104 behind Reddick11Chris Buescher81-105 behind Reddick12Brad Keselowski78-108 behind Reddick13William Byron76-110 behind Reddick14Zane Smith75-111 behind Reddick15Kyle Larson73-113 behind Reddick16Ryan Preece68-118 behind Reddick17Ty Gibbs65-3 behind Cutline (Preece)18Noah Gragson65-3 behind Cutline (Preece)19Ty Dillon65-3 behind Cutline (Preece)20Ross Chastain64-4 behind Cutline (Preece)21John H. Nemechek63-5 behind Cutline (Preece)22Kyle Busch61-7 behind Cutline (Preece)23Denny Hamlin60-8 behind Cutline (Preece)24Christopher Bell59-9 behind Cutline (Preece)25Riley Herbst53-15 behind Cutline (Preece)26Ricky Stenhouse Jr49-19 behind Cutline (Preece)27Chase Briscoe46-22 behind Cutline (Preece)28Josh Berry45-23 behind Cutline (Preece)29Cole Custer40-28 behind Cutline (Preece)30Todd Gilliland39-29 behind Cutline (Preece)31Austin Cindric39-29 behind Cutline (Preece)32Connor Zilisch37-31 behind Cutline (Preece)33Cody Ware37-31 behind Cutline (Preece)34Austin Dillon35-33 behind Cutline (Preece)35Erik Jones32-36 behind Cutline (Preece)36Alex Bowman23-45 behind Cutline (Preece)

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