{"id":92873,"date":"2025-08-24T05:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/92873\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T05:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:29:14","slug":"the-official-2025-nascar-cup-playoff-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/92873\/","title":{"rendered":"The official 2025 NASCAR Cup playoff grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An intense race at Daytona decided the final two spots in the NASCAR Cup playoff grid. The points battle was decided before the end of Stage 1, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/tyler-reddick\/19367\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tyler Reddick<\/a> locking himself in after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/alex-bowman\/14374\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alex Bowman<\/a> wrecked out of the race. Reddick also crashed, but he was able to continue on with his wounded No. 45 car.<\/p>\n<p>Bowman had to sweat for the rest of the race as the 20 drivers facing a must-win tried to position themselves for a dramatic victory in the regular season finale.<\/p>\n<p>There were several of those cars in a perfect spot to do just that, but in the end, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/nascar-cup\/news\/ryan-blaney-wins-daytona-finale-epic-four-wide-photo-finish\/10752944\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ryan Blaney prevailed in a stunning four-wide photo finish, surrounding by drivers facing a must-win.<\/a> As a result, Bowman secured the 16th and final playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p>2025 NASCAR Cup playoff grid after reset<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An intense race at Daytona decided the final two spots in the NASCAR Cup playoff grid. The points&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,48540,2884,634,3628,82,54497],"class_list":["post-92873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daytona-ii","tag-daytona-international-speedway","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-sports","tag-the-official-2025-nascar-cup-playoff-grid-after-points-reset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92873","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=92873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}