{"id":509043,"date":"2026-03-02T07:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509043\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:48:10","slug":"cup-series-points-leaders-after-cota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509043\/","title":{"rendered":"Cup Series Points Leaders After COTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third points race of the 2026 NASCAR season has come to a close, with Circuit of the America delivering the first road course race this year. Driving on a road course means we got a bit of a shakeup on the Cup Series points leaderboard, as we see in the latest standings.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the NASCAR points standings today following the DuraMax Texas Grand Prix at COTA.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/nascar\/nascar-results-today-cota-duramax-grand-prix-results-nascar-stage-results-cup-series\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR Results Today COTA, NASCAR Cup Series Stage Results<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASCAR Points Leaders Right Now: Standings after COTA<\/p>\n<p>With the NASCAR points leaders, we\u2019ve listed how many points behind Tyler Reddick the top-16 drivers are. For drivers below the cutline (16th), we\u2019ve listed how many points they are below it.<\/p>\n<p>Pos.DriverPointsBehind Leader\/Below Cutline1Tyler Reddick186\u20142Bubba Wallace116-70 behind Reddick3Chase Elliott114-72 behind Reddick4Ryan Blaney100-86 behind Reddick5Shane van Gisbergen90-96 behind Reddick6Joey Logano90-96 behind Reddick7Daniel Suarez87-99 behind Reddick8AJ Allmendinger86-100 behind Reddick9Michael McDowell83-103 behind Reddick10Carson Hocevar82-104 behind Reddick11Chris Buescher81-105 behind Reddick12Brad Keselowski78-108 behind Reddick13William Byron76-110 behind Reddick14Zane Smith75-111 behind Reddick15Kyle Larson73-113 behind Reddick16Ryan Preece68-118 behind Reddick17Ty Gibbs65-3 behind Cutline (Preece)18Noah Gragson65-3 behind Cutline (Preece)19Ty Dillon65-3 behind Cutline (Preece)20Ross Chastain64-4 behind Cutline (Preece)21John H. Nemechek63-5 behind Cutline (Preece)22Kyle Busch61-7 behind Cutline (Preece)23Denny Hamlin60-8 behind Cutline (Preece)24Christopher Bell59-9 behind Cutline (Preece)25Riley Herbst53-15 behind Cutline (Preece)26Ricky Stenhouse Jr49-19 behind Cutline (Preece)27Chase Briscoe46-22 behind Cutline (Preece)28Josh Berry45-23 behind Cutline (Preece)29Cole Custer40-28 behind Cutline (Preece)30Todd Gilliland39-29 behind Cutline (Preece)31Austin Cindric39-29 behind Cutline (Preece)32Connor Zilisch37-31 behind Cutline (Preece)33Cody Ware37-31 behind Cutline (Preece)34Austin Dillon35-33 behind Cutline (Preece)35Erik Jones32-36 behind Cutline (Preece)36Alex Bowman23-45 behind Cutline (Preece)<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/nascar\/winners-losers-nascar-race-today-duramax-texas-grand-prix-cota\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">Winners, Losers from the NASCAR Race Today at COTA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img alt=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5578.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 third points race of the 2026 NASCAR season has come to a close, with Circuit of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,8354,82],"class_list":["post-509043","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\/509043","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=509043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}