{"id":406318,"date":"2026-01-13T11:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/406318\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:12:16","slug":"nascar-championship-format-announced-for-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/406318\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Championship Format Announced for 2026 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The points leader entering the Chase will start with a 25-point advantage over second place. The points leader will start The Chase with 2,100 points, with second-place at 2,075 points, and the rest of The Chase grid scaling down to 2,000 points for 16th.<\/p>\n<p>The O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series and Craftsman Truck Series seedings will carry the same values, just with cut-offs at 12 and 10 drivers, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The championship format change follows an extensive review with collaboration from team owners, drivers, OEMs, tracks, broadcast partners and fans.<\/p>\n<p>-Photo credit: Meg Oliphant\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The points leader entering the Chase will start with a 25-point advantage over second place. The points leader&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-406318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406318","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=406318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}