William Byron insists he isn\u2019t looking at the points standings more frequently now than he did earlier in the season, instead he\u2019s resigned to the tried-and-true of just putting in his best effort each week.<\/p>\n
The driver of the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet takes an 18-point advantage over his teammate Chase Elliott into the weekend. Hendrick\u2019s Kyle Larson is only 45 points off the pace \u2013 all three reasonable threats for the regular season title.<\/p>\n
All three have wins at Watkins Glen. Byron won in 2023, and Larson (2021-22) and Elliott (2018-19) each scored back-to-back trophies here; Elliott\u2019s win in 2018 marking his first career NASCAR Cup Series victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s on the front of our mind, for sure, during the week,\u2019\u2019 Byron said of the tight competition atop the standings. \u201cI\u2019m sure every driver\u2019s guilty of looking at the points right after the race. So yeah, as soon as we get those after the event, we just look at them and are like \u2014 okay, here\u2019s where we\u2019re at and here\u2019s how many points we got this weekend. It\u2019s more before and after the weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say there\u2019s very little decision-making during the race that changes because of the points. I think you just try to run the best race that you can, and typically that\u2019s how you get the most points.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"William Byron insists he isn\u2019t looking at the points standings more frequently now than he did earlier in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,10660,4387,7574,4384,4386,12716,634,721,82,20828,4382],"class_list":["post-57600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chase","tag-chase-elliott","tag-chevrolet","tag-hendrick-motorsports","tag-kyle-larson","tag-motorsports","tag-nascar","tag-series","tag-sports","tag-watkins-glen","tag-william-byron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57600","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=57600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}