The NASCAR schedule took us to Dover Motor Speedway this weekend, with Sunday’s Cup Series race representing the 21st points race of the regular season. The conclusion of the EchoPark Automotive 400 means there are only five races left before the playoffs. Following the NASCAR results today, here are the Cup Series points leaders heading into Indianapolis.

Let’s dive into the NASCAR Cup Series points leaders after Dover. As always, we use (P) to indicate the driver would make the playoffs if the season ended today and (*) indicates the driver won a race this season.

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NASCAR points leaders after today

PositionDriverPointsBehind 1 Chase Elliott* (P) 702 — 2 William Byron* (P) 685 -17 3 Kyle Larson* (P) 664 -38 4 Denny Hamlin* (P) 663 -39 5 Tyler Reddick (P) 640 -62 6 Christopher Bell* (P) 635 -67 7 Ryan Blaney* (P) 576 -126 8 Chase Briscoe* (P) 570 -132 9 Alex Bowman (P) 547 -155 10 Chris Buescher (P) 528 -174 11 Joey Logano* (P) 524 -178 12 Ross Chastain* (P) 517 -185 13 Bubba Wallace (P) 500 -202 14 Ryan Preece 484 -218 15 Kyle Busch 461 -241 16 Ty Gibbs 448 -254 17 Michael McDowell 423 -279 18 AJ Allmendinger 420 -282 19 Austin Cindric* (P) 417 -285 20 Erik Jones 411 -291 21 John Hunter Nemechek 400 -302 22 Josh Berry* (P) 399 -303 23 Ricky Stenhouse Jr 392 -310 24 Zane Smith 388 -314 25 Carson Hocevar 375 -327 26 Shane van Gisbergen* (P) 374 -328 27 Brad Keselowski 360 -342 28 Austin Dillon 353 -349 29 Daniel Suarez 341 -361 30 Ty Dillon 337 -365 31 Justin Haley 337 -365 32 Todd Gilliland 333 -369 33 Noah Gragson 272 -430 34 Cole Custer 263 -439 35 Riley Herbst 251 -451 36 Cody Ware 148 -554

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