{"id":600625,"date":"2026-04-13T06:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/600625\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T06:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:19:11","slug":"cup-series-points-leaders-after-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/600625\/","title":{"rendered":"Cup Series Points Leaders after Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday\u2019s NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway brought some chaos to the 2026 season. While Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney and Chase Briscoe dominated, the NASCAR standings today got quite a bit of a shakeup thanks to major issues for Christopher Bell and William Byron.<\/p>\n<p>Of note with the NASCAR standings today, there\u2019s no changes at the very top or bottom. Tyler Reddick is still the Cup Series points leader through eight races and, following a four-race absence, Alex Bowman has the fewest points amont full-time drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/nascar\/food-city-500-analysis-nascar-race-today-winners-losers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winners, Losers from the Food City 500<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s dive right into the NASCAR Cup Series points leaders right now after Sunday\u2019s Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway. We also included the biggest risers and fallers in the NASCAR standings today.<\/p>\n<p>Biggest Risers<\/p>\n<p>Chase Briscoe \u2014 +4<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Larson \u2014 +3<\/p>\n<p>Bubba Wallace \u2014 +3<\/p>\n<p>Ty Gibbs \u2014 +2<\/p>\n<p>Carson Hocevar \u2014 +2<\/p>\n<p>Todd Gilliland \u2014 +2<\/p>\n<p>Biggest Fallers<\/p>\n<p>Brad Keselowski \u2014 -3<\/p>\n<p>William Byron \u2014 -2<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Bell \u2014 -2<\/p>\n<p>Shane van Gisbergen \u2014 -2<\/p>\n<p>Michael McDowell \u2014 -2<\/p>\n<p>Ross Chastain \u2014 -2<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR Standings Right Now: Points Leaderboard after Bristol<\/p>\n<p>RankDriverPointsBehind1Tyler Reddick386\u20142Ryan Blaney324-623Denny Hamlin300-864Ty Gibbs281-1055Chase Elliott264-1226Kyle Larson260-1267William Byron245-1418Bubba Wallace236-1509Christopher Bell231-15510Chris Buescher230-15611Brad Keselowski229-15712Joey Logano218-16813Carson Hocevar209-17714Ryan Preece209-17715Daniel Suarez192-19416 \u2014 CUT LINEShane van Gisbergen177-20917Chase Briscoe176-21018Austin Cindric172-21419Michael McDowell171-21520AJ Allmendinger156-23021Ross Chastain153-23322Zane Smith153-23323Erik Jones133-25324Kyle Busch131-25525Josh Berry128-25826Todd Gilliland127-25927Austin Dillon124-26228John Hunter Nemechek111-27529Riley Herbst109-27730Ricky Stenhouse Jr107-27931Noah Gragson104-28232Ty Dillon95-29133Connor Zilisch84-30234Cole Custer76-31035Cody Ware64-32236Alex Bowman24-362<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/nascar\/nascar-results-today-cup-series-bristol-food-city-500-results\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">Official 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Results at Bristol Motor Speedway<\/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":"Sunday\u2019s NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway brought some chaos to the 2026 season. While Kyle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,8354,82],"class_list":["post-600625","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\/600625","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=600625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}