{"id":191422,"date":"2025-10-05T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/191422\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T13:58:07","slug":"what-nascar-xfinity-series-playoff-standings-look-like-after-charlotte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/191422\/","title":{"rendered":"What NASCAR Xfinity Series playoff standings look like after Charlotte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connor Zilisch won Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASCAR<\/a> Xfinity Series race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval, locking up more playoff points as he chases a Championship 4 berth. Here&#8217;s what the Xfinity Series playoff grid looks like after the Round of 12 finale.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1. Connor Zilisch (+57)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Zilisch, a 10-time winner this season, will begin the Round of 8 with a huge points advantage. That could be very helpful in a round that features a major wild-card race in Talladega.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2. Justin Allgaier (+24)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zilisch&#8217;s teammate and defending Xfinity Series champion Justin Allgaier clocks in second on the grid following an eighth-place finish on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>3. Brandon Jones (+4)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jones is where the standings begin to really tighten up. The two-time 2025 winner will need a trio of strong races at Las Vegas, Talladega and Martinsville if he is to advance to the Championship 4 for the first time in his Xfinity Series career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>4. Sam Mayer (+2)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mayer advanced to the Round of 8 with a 19th-place finish on Saturday. He&#8217;s had a consistent 2025 campaign, but he&#8217;ll need to be elite to advance to the Championship 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t5. Jesse Love (-2)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Love has been relatively quiet over the second half of the season, but could definitely make some noise in the Round of 8. He finished 12th on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>6. Sammy Smith (-7)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Smith advanced to the Round of 8 by the skin of his teeth. The Rockingham winner finished third on Saturday in a race he likely won&#8217;t forget for a long time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>7. Carson Kvapil (-11)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His rookie teammate in Zilisch has mostly stolen the spotlight, but Kvapil has had a solid season and is still in contention for a championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>8. Sheldon Creed (-13)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Creed finished 11th on Saturday to advance to the Round of 8. He&#8217;s still looking for his first career win, and it couldn&#8217;t come at a better time than in the penultimate round of the postseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor Zilisch won Saturday&#8217;s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval, locking up more playoff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-191422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}