{"id":258277,"date":"2025-11-03T06:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/258277\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T06:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:43:13","slug":"final-2025-nascar-cup-series-championship-standings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/258277\/","title":{"rendered":"Final 2025 NASCAR Cup Series championship standings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/kyle-larson\/17135\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kyle Larson<\/a> claimed an unexpected title without leading a single lap, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/denny-hamlin\/6539\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Denny Hamlin<\/a> was forced to settle for second in the championship standings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/ryan-blaney\/18336\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ryan Blaney<\/a> claimed the checkered flag with a pass on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/brad-keselowski\/5696\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brad Keselowski<\/a> in the final corner, while newly crowned two-time Cup Series champion Larson finished third.<\/p>\n<p>This year, 60 different drivers started NASCAR Cup races, but only 43 were eligible to score points. 35 drivers ran all 36 points-paying races on the schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Chase secured his Briscoe best points finish ever, placing third in the final standings, while Hamlin walked away as the championship runner-up for the first time since 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/joey-logano\/9725\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Joey Logano<\/a>, who was unable to defend his 2024 title after missing the Championship 4, ended the year seventh in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>2025 marked the first time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/kyle-busch\/17035\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kyle Busch<\/a> has finished outside the top 20 in the championship standings since becoming a full-time Cup driver two decades ago, placing 21st with a top five finish to end the year.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie of the Year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/shane-van-gisbergen\/10844\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Shane van Gisbergen<\/a> ended the year 12th in the standings, while RFK Racing ended up as the best of the rest with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/chris-buescher\/17348\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chris Buescher<\/a> 17th for the second consecutive year.<\/p>\n<p>2025 NASCAR Cup Final Championship Standings\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Kyle Larson claimed an unexpected title without leading a single lap, Denny Hamlin was forced to settle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,119885,115604,634,3628,115603,82],"class_list":["post-258277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-final-2025-nascar-cup-series-championship-standings","tag-ism-raceway","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-phoenix-ii","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258277","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=258277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}