{"id":799083,"date":"2026-07-13T12:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799083\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:51:21","slug":"complete-nascar-cup-points-standings-after-atlanta-ii-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799083\/","title":{"rendered":"Complete NASCAR Cup points standings after Atlanta II 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/tyler-reddick\/19367\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tyler Reddick<\/a> made up a little bit of ground on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/denny-hamlin\/6539\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Denny Hamlin<\/a> in the fight for the regular season championship lead, closing from 44pts behind to 24pts back after Atlanta. There are now just six races until the Chase grid is set.<\/p>\n<p>After Atlanta, both Hamlin and Reddick also mathematically\u00a0clinched a spot in the 2026 Chase field.<\/p>\n<p>In the battle around the cut-line, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/shane-van-gisbergen\/10844\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Shane van Gisbergen<\/a> is 31pts above after another oval top ten, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/erik-jones\/19934\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Erik Jones<\/a> remains on the bubble, eight points ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/joey-logano\/9725\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Joey Logano<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/ryan-preece\/16003\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ryan Preece<\/a> is -26pts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/brad-keselowski\/5696\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brad\u00a0Keselowski<\/a> -43pts, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/ross-chastain\/17535\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ross Chastain<\/a> -45pts.<\/p>\n<p>Chastain was also the biggest mover in the standings, jumping two positions from 22nd to 20th, while A.J. Allmendinger was the biggest loser, falling three positions from 19th to 22nd.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>2026 NASCAR Cup points after Atlanta II (Race 20 of 36)<\/p>\n<p>Note: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/kyle-busch\/17035\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kyle Busch<\/a> scored 217 points before his tragic passing, and we have followed NASCAR&#8217;s decision to no longer\u00a0classify Busch in the weekly driver standings.<\/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":"Tyler Reddick made up a little bit of ground on Denny Hamlin in the fight for the regular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[278223,159416,49,48,281530,634,3628,82],"class_list":["post-799083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-atlanta-ii","tag-atlanta-motor-speedway","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-complete-nascar-cup-points-standings-after-atlanta-ii-2026","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799083","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=799083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}