{"id":955498,"date":"2026-11-02T12:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955498\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T12:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:41:12","slug":"complete-nascar-cup-points-standings-after-2026-martinsville-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955498\/","title":{"rendered":"Complete NASCAR Cup points standings after 2026 Martinsville II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 NASCAR Cup season is nearly over, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/kyle-larson\/17135\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kyle Larson<\/a> holds a comfortable 67-point lead over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/christopher-bell\/16942\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Christopher Bell<\/a>, and a 70-point lead over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/denny-hamlin\/6539\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Denny Hamlin<\/a> ahead of the season finale. All other drivers are eliminated from title contention.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest mover in the standings was race winner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/william-byron\/142818\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">William Byron<\/a>, who jumped two positions to ninth in the standings. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/hendrick-motorsports\/70\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hendrick Motorsports<\/a> teammate and Martinsville runner-up finisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/chase-elliott\/19814\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chase Elliott<\/a> also jumped up two positions to tenth.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest loser was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/austin-cindric\/19256\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Austin Cindric<\/a>, who suffered a DNF and fell three positions to 11th in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>In the battle to be the best of the rest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/shane-van-gisbergen\/10844\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Shane van Gisbergen<\/a> holds 17th with a 29-point advantage over teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/ross-chastain\/17535\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ross Chastain<\/a> after a top five finish.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>2026 NASCAR Cup points after Martinsville II (Race 35 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":"The 2026 NASCAR Cup season is nearly over, and Kyle Larson holds a comfortable 67-point lead over Christopher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,326546,110853,26793,634,3628,82],"class_list":["post-955498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-complete-nascar-cup-points-standings-after-2026-martinsville-ii","tag-martinsville-ii","tag-martinsville-speedway","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955498","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=955498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}