{"id":88972,"date":"2025-08-17T06:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T06:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/88972\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T06:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T06:47:07","slug":"cup-series-points-leaders-nascar-playoff-standings-after-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/88972\/","title":{"rendered":"Cup Series Points Leaders, NASCAR Playoff Standings after Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following Saturday night\u2019s Cook Out 400 at Richmond Raceway, there\u2019s only one race remaining in the regular season. The NASCAR results today from Richmond<\/a> tightened up the battle for additional playoff points awarded for the top 10 drivers in the NASCAR standings<\/a> and there are still two points-eligible playoff spots remaining.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s dive into the NASCAR playoff picture right now after the Cook Out 40, along with the Cup Series points leaders heading into the final race on the regular-season portion of the NASCAR schedule<\/a> from Daytona International Speedway.<\/p>\n

Related: Winners, Losers from the Cook Out 400<\/a><\/p>\n

NASCAR Cup Series Points Leaders after Today\u2019s Race<\/p>\n

Here are the NASCAR points leaders after Richmond. (P) indicates the driver would make the playoffs if the regular season ended today and (*) indicates the driver has won a race this season.<\/p>\n

RankDriverPointsBehind1William Byron* (P)839\u20142Chase Elliott* (P)771-683Denny Hamlin* (P)766-734Kyle Larson* (P)759-805Ryan Blaney* (P)756-836Christopher Bell* (P)748-917Tyler Reddick (P)714-1258Chase Briscoe* (P)698-1419Alex Bowman (P)685-15410Bubba Wallace* (P)639-20011Chris Buescher625-21412Joey Logano* (P)616-22313Ryan Preece591-24814Ross Chastain* (P)589-25015Austin Cindric* (P)543-29616Kyle Busch537-30217Ty Gibbs512-32718AJ Allmendinger504-33519Brad Keselowski496-34320Carson Hocevar488-35121Michael McDowell478-36122Josh Berry* (P)476-36323Erik Jones472-36724Shane van Gisbergen* (P)464-37525Austin Dillon* (P)460-37926John H. Nemecehk459-38027Zane Smith441-39828Ricky Stenhouse Jr434-40529Daniel Suarez433-40630Justin Haley389-45031Todd Gilliland388-45132Ty Dillon<\/a>372-46733Noah Gragson309-53034Cole Custer307-53235Riley Herbst293-54636Cody Ware168-671<\/p>\n

Related: NASCAR Truck Series results from Richmond Raceway<\/a><\/p>\n

NASCAR Playoff Picture: Cup Series Playoff Points Standings<\/p>\n

Here is the NASCAR playoff picture right now in the Cup Series after the Cook Out 400 at Richmond.<\/p>\n

Denny Hamlin \u2013 4 wins \u2013 24 playoff points<\/p>\n

Shane van Gisbergen \u2013 4 wins \u2013 22 playoff points<\/p>\n

Christopher Bell \u2013 3 wins -17 playoff points<\/p>\n

Kyle Larson \u2013 3 wins \u2013 23 playoff points<\/p>\n

William Byron \u2013 2 wins \u2013 17 playoff points<\/p>\n

Chase Elliott \u2013 1 win \u2013 6 playoff points<\/p>\n

Ryan Blaney \u2013 1 win -11 playoff points<\/p>\n

Chase Briscoe \u2013 1 win -7 playoff points<\/p>\n

Bubba Wallace \u2013 1 win \u2013 8 playoff points <\/p>\n

Joey Logano \u2013 1 win \u2013 7 playoff points<\/p>\n

Ross Chastain \u2013 1 win \u2013 6 playoff points<\/p>\n

Austin Cindric \u2013 1 win \u2013 8 playoff points<\/p>\n

Josh Berry \u2013 1 win \u2013 6 playoff points<\/p>\n

Austin Dillon \u2013 1 win \u2013 5 playoff points<\/p>\n

Tyler Reddick \u2013 +89 points \u2013 2 playoff points<\/p>\n

Alex Bowman \u2013 +60 points \u2013 0 playoff points<\/p>\n

Also Read: Latest NASCAR Rumors on 2026 Schedule, including Dates and Key Changes<\/a><\/p>\n

PLAYOFF BUBBLE \u2013 Chris Buescher \u2013 60 points behind Alex Bowman<\/p>\n

PLAYOFF BUBBLE \u2013 Ryan Preece \u2013 94 points behind Alex Bowman<\/p>\n

PLAYOFF BUBBLE \u2013 Kyle Busch \u2013 148 points behind Alex Bowman<\/p>\n

PLAYOFF BUBBLE \u2013 Ty Gibbs \u2013 173 points behind Alex Bowman<\/p>\n

Read More: 8 Big Changes NASCAR Should Make for the 2026 Season<\/a><\/p>\n

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\t\tNFL, MLB & college football writer for Sportsnaut. Graduated from San Diego State University with BA in Journalism, 2019. … More about Matt Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following Saturday night\u2019s Cook Out 400 at Richmond Raceway, there\u2019s only one race remaining in the regular season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-88972","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\/88972","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=88972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}