Sunday marked the 20th Cup Series race on the regular season portion of the NASCAR schedule, with Sonoma Raceway delivering the second consecutive road course race in two weeks. Fittingly, the road course delivered quite a bit of shakeup in the NASCAR points standings with only seven races remaining before the playoffs.
Related: NASCAR results today from Sonoma, NASCAR stage results
Let’s dive into the NASCAR points standings after Sonoma. As always (*) indicates driver won a race and (P) indicates they would make the NASCAR playoffs if the regular season ended today.
NASCAR points leaders today: Cup Series points standings
PositionDriverPointsBehind1William Byron* (P)668—2Chase Elliott* (P)654-143Kyle Larson* (P)624-444Tyler Reddick (P)614-545Denny Hamlin* (P)606-626Christopher Bell* (P)597-717Ryan Blaney* (P)545-1238Chase Briscoe* (P)526-1429Ross Chastain* (P)513-14410Chris Buescher (P)500-16811Joey Logano* (P)499-16912Alex Bowman (P)498-17013Bubba Wallace (P)469-19914Ryan Preece466-20215Kyle Busch432-23616AJ Allmendinger419-24917Ty Gibbs409-25918Erik Jones401-26719Michael McDowell399-26920Austin Cindric* (P)396-27221Josh Berry* (P)390-27822John Hunter Nemechek384-28423Ricky Stenhosue Jr378-29024Carson Hocevar373-29525Zane Smith373-29526Shane van Gisbergen* (P)367-30127Brad Keselowski333-33528Austin Dillon331-33729Daniel Suarez330-33830Ty Dillon320-34831Todd Gilliland320-34832Justin Haley317-35133Noah Gragson266-40234Cole Custer256-41235Riley Herbst238-43036Cody Ware147-521
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