{"id":228834,"date":"2025-10-21T07:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/228834\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T07:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:50:07","slug":"nascar-cup-series-playoff-picture-after-talladega-in-2025-round-of-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/228834\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Cup Series playoff picture after Talladega in 2025 Round of 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second Round of 8 race is complete, and the NASCAR Cup Series is looking to regroup for next weekend. The YellaWood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway provided great entertainment, with <a href=\"https:\/\/motorsportswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/motor\/nascar\/2025\/10\/20\/chase-briscoe-wins-nascar-cup-series-playoff-race-talladega-2025\/86804022007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Chase Briscoe pulling off a dramatic victory after passing Bubba Wallace on the final lap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While Briscoe locked a spot in the Championship 4, several playoff drivers, such as Chase Elliott and William Byron, suffered issues that hurt their position in the Round of 8 standings. So, what does the NASCAR playoff picture look like heading to Martinsville Speedway next weekend?<\/p>\n<p>Below, you can check out the 2025 Cup Series playoff standings after the second Round of 8 race at Talladega!<\/p>\n<p>2025 NASCAR Cup Series playoff standings, post-Talladega, Round of 8No. 19 Chase Briscoe: ADVANCEDNo. 11 Denny Hamlin: ADVANCEDNo. 20 Christopher Bell: +37No. 5 Kyle Larson: +36No. 24 William Byron: -36No. 22 Joey Logano: -38No. 12 Ryan Blaney: -47No. 9 Chase Elliott: -62<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\">More: <a href=\"https:\/\/motorsportswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/motor\/nascar\/2025\/10\/21\/how-to-watch-nascar-live-martinsville-october-2025-schedule\/86804475007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How to watch NASCAR live at Martinsville in October 2025, full schedule<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second Round of 8 race is complete, and the NASCAR Cup Series is looking to regroup for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[9680,2571,10661,5540,49,48,10660,10662,634,44,1333,1345,1334,582,3009,457,6367,82,865,6363,109201,63751,98034,1335,4811,4382],"class_list":["post-228834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-auto","tag-auto-racing","tag-briscoe","tag-byron","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chase","tag-chase-briscoe","tag-nascar","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-positive","tag-racing","tag-scores","tag-sport","tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-statistics","tag-superspeedway","tag-talladega","tag-talladega-superspeedway","tag-u0026","tag-william","tag-william-byron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228834","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=228834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}