{"id":257456,"date":"2025-11-02T21:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T21:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/257456\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T21:31:08","slug":"nascar-cup-series-championship-race-live-updates-news-analysis-and-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/257456\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race live updates: News, analysis and latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NASCAR Cup Series playoffs wrap up this afternoon in Arizona with Denny Hamlin, Chase Briscoe, Kyle Larson and William Byron competing for the title.<\/p>\n<p>Byron overtook Hamlin, the early leader, on the 55th lap to win Stage 1. Stage 2 is now underway.<\/p>\n<p>Follow along throughout the day for live updates and real-time expert analysis from our team of reporters at The Athletic.<\/p>\n<p>Share your views:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/live-blogs\/nascar-cup-series-championship-live-updates-phoenix\/QoqMD8RZVQDw\/mailto:live@theathletic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> live@theathletic.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NASCAR Cup Series playoffs wrap up this afternoon in Arizona with Denny Hamlin, Chase Briscoe, Kyle Larson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-257456","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\/257456","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=257456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}