The NASCAR schedule took us to Dover Motor Speedway this weekend, with Sunday’s Cup Series race representing the 21st points race of the regular season. The conclusion of the EchoPark Automotive 400 means there are only five races left before the playoffs. Following the NASCAR results today, here are the Cup Series points leaders heading into Indianapolis.
Let’s dive into the NASCAR Cup Series points leaders after Dover. As always, we use (P) to indicate the driver would make the playoffs if the season ended today and (*) indicates the driver won a race this season.
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NASCAR points leaders after today
PositionDriverPointsBehind1Chase Elliott* (P)702—2William Byron* (P)685-173Kyle Larson* (P)664-384Denny Hamlin* (P)663-395Tyler Reddick (P)640-626Christopher Bell* (P)635-677Ryan Blaney* (P)576-1268Chase Briscoe* (P)570-1329Alex Bowman (P)547-15510Chris Buescher (P)528-17411Joey Logano* (P)524-17812Ross Chastain* (P)517-18513Bubba Wallace (P)500-20214Ryan Preece484-21815Kyle Busch461-24116Ty Gibbs448-25417Michael McDowell423-27918AJ Allmendinger420-28219Austin Cindric* (P)417-28520Erik Jones411-29121John Hunter Nemechek400-30222Josh Berry* (P)399-30323Ricky Stenhouse Jr392-31024Zane Smith388-31425Carson Hocevar375-32726Shane van Gisbergen* (P)374-32827Brad Keselowski360-34228Austin Dillon353-34929Daniel Suarez341-36130Ty Dillon337-36531Justin Haley337-36532Todd Gilliland333-36933Noah Gragson272-43034Cole Custer263-43935Riley Herbst251-45136Cody Ware148-554
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