{"id":7764,"date":"2025-07-13T23:43:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7764\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T23:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:43:04","slug":"cup-series-points-leaders-after-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7764\/","title":{"rendered":"Cup Series points leaders after today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday marked the 20th Cup Series race on the regular season portion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/nascar\/nascar-today-tv-schedule-race-highlights-rankings\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">NASCAR schedule<\/a>, 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/nascar\/nascar-standings\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">NASCAR points standings<\/a> with only seven races remaining before the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/nascar-results-today-sonoma-nascar-stage-results\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">NASCAR results today from Sonoma, NASCAR stage results<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR points leaders today: Cup Series points standings<\/p>\n<p>PositionDriverPointsBehind1William Byron* (P)668\u20142Chase 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<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/nascar\/nascar-winners-losers-save-mart-350-at-sonoma-raceway\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">Winners, Losers from NASCAR race at Sonoma Raceway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sportsnaut-tracks.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-70 photo\" height=\"70\" width=\"70\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tNFL,  MLB  &amp;  college  football  writer  for  Sportsnaut.  Graduated  from  San  Diego  State  University  with  BA  in  Journalism,  2019.  &#8230; More about <a class=\"more-bio\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/author\/wisconsinboymakesgoodincali\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday marked the 20th Cup Series race on the regular season portion of the NASCAR schedule, with Sonoma&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-7764","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\/7764","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=7764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}