{"id":539141,"date":"2026-03-16T01:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539141\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T01:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:38:11","slug":"complete-nascar-cup-points-standings-after-las-vegas-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539141\/","title":{"rendered":"Complete NASCAR Cup points standings after Las Vegas I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one is really making a dent in Tyler Reddick&#8217;s impressive points lead, which remains +61 points after the fifth race of the year at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>He has led the standings since winning the season-opening Daytona 500 last month. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/23xi-racing\/39354\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">23XI Racing<\/a> teammate,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/bubba-wallace\/18588\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bubba Wallace,<\/a>is back in the runner-up spot, jumping ahead of Blaney after the Penske driver got caught out by an ill-timed caution.<\/p>\n<p>With his 61st career win on Sunday at LVMS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/denny-hamlin\/6539\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Denny Hamlin<\/a> is now fourth in points, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/chase-elliott\/19814\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chase Elliott<\/a> leading the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/hendrick-motorsports\/70\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hendrick Motorsports<\/a>\u00a0fleet in fifth.<\/p>\n<p>A tough day for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/shane-van-gisbergen\/10844\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Shane van Gisbergen<\/a> has dropped him from fifth all the way down to 16th &#8212; the final spot inside the provisional &#8216;Chase&#8217; field. He is tied with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/daniel-suarez\/19888\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Daniel Suarez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/aj-allmendinger\/1713\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">AJ Allmendinger<\/a> for that critical spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>2026 NASCAR Cup points after Las Vegas I (Race 5 of 36)<\/p>\n<p>\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":"No one is really making a dent in Tyler Reddick&#8217;s impressive points lead, which remains +61 points after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,210627,1483,86140,634,3628,82],"class_list":["post-539141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-complete-nascar-cup-points-standings-after-las-vegas-i","tag-las-vegas","tag-las-vegas-motor-speedway","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539141","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=539141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}