Following Saturday night’s Cook Out 400 at Richmond Raceway, there’s only one race remaining in the regular season. The NASCAR results today from Richmond tightened up the battle for additional playoff points awarded for the top 10 drivers in the NASCAR standings and there are still two points-eligible playoff spots remaining.
Let’s dive into the NASCAR playoff picture right now after the Cook Out 40, along with the Cup Series points leaders heading into the final race on the regular-season portion of the NASCAR schedule from Daytona International Speedway.
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NASCAR Cup Series Points Leaders after Today’s Race
Here are the NASCAR points leaders after Richmond. (P) indicates the driver would make the playoffs if the regular season ended today and (*) indicates the driver has won a race this season.
RankDriverPointsBehind1William Byron* (P)839—2Chase Elliott* (P)771-683Denny Hamlin* (P)766-734Kyle Larson* (P)759-805Ryan Blaney* (P)756-836Christopher Bell* (P)748-917Tyler Reddick (P)714-1258Chase Briscoe* (P)698-1419Alex Bowman (P)685-15410Bubba Wallace* (P)639-20011Chris Buescher625-21412Joey Logano* (P)616-22313Ryan Preece591-24814Ross Chastain* (P)589-25015Austin Cindric* (P)543-29616Kyle Busch537-30217Ty Gibbs512-32718AJ Allmendinger504-33519Brad Keselowski496-34320Carson Hocevar488-35121Michael McDowell478-36122Josh Berry* (P)476-36323Erik Jones472-36724Shane van Gisbergen* (P)464-37525Austin Dillon* (P)460-37926John H. Nemecehk459-38027Zane Smith441-39828Ricky Stenhouse Jr434-40529Daniel Suarez433-40630Justin Haley389-45031Todd Gilliland388-45132Ty Dillon372-46733Noah Gragson309-53034Cole Custer307-53235Riley Herbst293-54636Cody Ware168-671
Related: NASCAR Truck Series results from Richmond Raceway
NASCAR Playoff Picture: Cup Series Playoff Points Standings
Here is the NASCAR playoff picture right now in the Cup Series after the Cook Out 400 at Richmond.
Denny Hamlin – 4 wins – 24 playoff points
Shane van Gisbergen – 4 wins – 22 playoff points
Christopher Bell – 3 wins -17 playoff points
Kyle Larson – 3 wins – 23 playoff points
William Byron – 2 wins – 17 playoff points
Chase Elliott – 1 win – 6 playoff points
Ryan Blaney – 1 win -11 playoff points
Chase Briscoe – 1 win -7 playoff points
Bubba Wallace – 1 win – 8 playoff points
Joey Logano – 1 win – 7 playoff points
Ross Chastain – 1 win – 6 playoff points
Austin Cindric – 1 win – 8 playoff points
Josh Berry – 1 win – 6 playoff points
Austin Dillon – 1 win – 5 playoff points
Tyler Reddick – +89 points – 2 playoff points
Alex Bowman – +60 points – 0 playoff points
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PLAYOFF BUBBLE – Chris Buescher – 60 points behind Alex Bowman
PLAYOFF BUBBLE – Ryan Preece – 94 points behind Alex Bowman
PLAYOFF BUBBLE – Kyle Busch – 148 points behind Alex Bowman
PLAYOFF BUBBLE – Ty Gibbs – 173 points behind Alex Bowman
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