{"id":139159,"date":"2025-09-07T10:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/139159\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T10:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:28:06","slug":"nascar-playoff-picture-cup-series-points-standings-before-gateway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/139159\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR playoff picture: Cup Series points standings before Gateway"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NASCAR Cup Series<\/a> continues in the Round of 16 on Sept. 7 with the Enjoy Illinois 300<\/a> at World Wide Technology Raceway.<\/p>\n

Chase Briscoe is the only playoff driver locked into the next round<\/a> after last weekend’s win at Darlington. Denny Hamlin, Kyle Larson and Tyler Reddick could all clinch a spot in the Round of 12 via points as soon as this weekend.<\/p>\n

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Alex Bowman and Josh Berry are each 19 points below the playoff cutline after poor results at Darlington.<\/p>\n

Here is the NASCAR Cup Series playoff picture heading into Gateway:<\/p>\n

NASCAR playoff picture before Gateway race<\/p>\n

After of Race 1 of 3 in Round of 16; Top 12 drivers advance to next round, with a win locking drivers into next round<\/p>\n

1. Chase Briscoe (locked into Round of 12 with Darlington win)<\/p>\n

2. Denny Hamlin +43 ahead of 13th<\/p>\n

3. Kyle Larson +36<\/p>\n

4. Tyler Reddick +35<\/p>\n

5. Bubba Wallace +25<\/p>\n

6. William Byron +25<\/p>\n

7. Ryan Blaney +22<\/p>\n

8. Ross Chastain +21<\/p>\n

9. Austin Cindric +12<\/p>\n

10. Christopher Bell +11<\/p>\n

11. Chase Elliott +9<\/p>\n

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12. Shane van Gisbergen +3<\/p>\n

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13. Joey Logano -3 behind 12th<\/p>\n

14. Austin Dillon -8<\/p>\n

15. Alex Bowman -19<\/p>\n

16. Josh Berry -19<\/p>\n

NASCAR Cup Series playoffs schedule<\/p>\n

Aug. 31: Southern 500, Darlington Raceway (Winner: Chase Briscoe) Round of 16<\/p>\n

Sept. 7: Enjoy Illinois 300, World Wide Technology Raceway (2 p.m., USA Network) Round of 16<\/p>\n

Sept. 13: Bass Pro Shops Night Race, Bristol Motor Speedway (6:30 p.m., USA Network) Round of 16<\/p>\n

Sept. 21: NASCAR Cup Series Race at New Hampshire, New Hampshire Motor Speedway (1 p.m., USA Network) Round of 12<\/p>\n

Sept. 28: Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas Speedway (2 p.m., USA Network) Round of 12<\/p>\n

Oct. 5: Bank of America Roval 400, Charlotte Motor Speedway road course (2 p.m., USA Network) Round of 12<\/p>\n

Oct. 12: South Point 400, Las Vegas Motor Speedway (4:30 p.m., USA Network) Round of 8<\/p>\n

Oct. 19: YellaWood 500, Talladega Superspeedway (1 p.m., NBC) Round of 8<\/p>\n

Oct. 26: Xfinity 500, Martinsville Speedway (1 p.m., NBC) Round of 8<\/p>\n

Nov. 2: NASCAR Cup Series Championship race, Phoenix Raceway (2 p.m., NBC)<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: NASCAR playoff picture: Cup points standings bfore Gateway race<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NASCAR Cup Series continues in the Round of 16 on Sept. 7 with the Enjoy Illinois 300…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[15892,9992,441,11050,23630,5263,425,1703,77042,8656,99,11747,41539,15119,74606],"class_list":["post-139159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-alex-bowman","tag-chase-briscoe","tag-chase-elliott","tag-denny-hamlin","tag-josh-berry","tag-kyle-larson","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-nascar-cup-series-playoffs","tag-ryan-blaney","tag-sports","tag-tyler-reddick","tag-usa-network","tag-william-byron","tag-world-wide-technology-raceway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139159","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=139159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}