{"id":10363,"date":"2025-07-15T00:38:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/10363\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T00:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:38:05","slug":"kyle-busch-gains-on-nascar-cup-playoff-cutline-with-6-races-left-in-regular-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/10363\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Busch gains on NASCAR Cup playoff cutline with 6 races left in regular season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Busch remains outside a playoff spot with six races left in the regular season, but he closed the gap after last weekend\u2019s race at Sonoma Raceway.<\/p>\n<p>Busch\u2019s 10th-place finish helped him gain nine points on the cutline. He goes into Sunday\u2019s race at Dover Motor Speedway 37 points behind Bubba Wallace for the final playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Preece remains the first driver outside a playoff spot. He is three points behind Wallace after losing one point to Wallace at Sonoma.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve different drivers have won a race this season, leaving four playoff positions via points at this time. <\/p>\n<p>Tyler Reddick is 149 points above the cutline. Chris Buescher is 34 points above the cutline, and Alex Bowman is 32 points above the cutline, held by Wallace. <\/p>\n<p>Here is a look at the playoff standings heading to Dover (those in yellow have won this season):<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"image-610000\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Race 20 Cup Playoffs after Sonoma.jpg\"  width=\"541\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752539885_42_\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Busch remains outside a playoff spot with six races left in the regular season, but he closed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-10363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}