{"id":478085,"date":"2026-02-16T07:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/478085\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T07:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:36:13","slug":"cup-series-points-leaders-after-daytona-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/478085\/","title":{"rendered":"Cup Series Points Leaders after Daytona 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 NASCAR season is underway, delivering a new points format. Gone are the days of win-and-in for the playoffs, it is now a 26-race battle for 16 spots in the Chase format. Sunday\u2019s Daytona 500 is just the first of many races to come under the new format, with points more important than years past.<\/p>\n<p>As the Daytona 500 draws to a close, let\u2019s dive into the NASCAR points standings today in the Cup Series.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/nascar\/nascar-race-today-daytona-500-winners-losers-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winners, Losers from the Daytona 500<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASCAR Points Standings After Today: Cup Series Points Standings<\/p>\n<p>Here are the NASCAR Cup Series points leaders after today following the Daytona 500.<\/p>\n<p>RankDriverPoints1Tyler Reddick582Joey Logano463Chase Elliott434Zane Smith415Ricky Stenhouse Jr396Brad Keselowski397Chris Buescher398Bubba Wallace379Ryan Blaney3610Riley Herbst3511Daniel Suarez3512Carson Hocevar3513Josh Berry3314Kyle Busch2915Kyle Larson2916Noah Gragson2717Michael McDowell2618William Byron2519John Hunter Nemechek2520Ty Dillon2321Cody Ware2022AJ Allmendinger1923Ross Chastain1724Ryan Preece1725Erik Jones1626Ty Gibbs1627Cole Custer1328Shane van Gisbergen1329Austin Cindric1330Casey Mears931Christopher Bell932Austin Dillon933Denny Hamlin834Connor Zilisch535Todd Gilliland436Alex Bowman437Chase Briscoe2<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/nascar\/daytona-500-results-2026-nascar-results-today\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daytona 500 Results, NASCAR Stage Results Today<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img alt=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5578-90x90.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-70 photo\" height=\"70\" width=\"70\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tMatt  Johnson  is  Senior  Editor  of  NFL  and  College  Football  for  Sportsnaut.  His  work,  including  weekly  NFL  and  college  &#8230; More about <a class=\"more-bio\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/author\/wisconsinboymakesgoodincali\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 NASCAR season is underway, delivering a new points format. Gone are the days of win-and-in for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,8354,82],"class_list":["post-478085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478085","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=478085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}