The conclusion of Sunday’s Brickyard 400 means only four races are remaining on the regular-season portion of the NASCAR schedule. Both the battle for the regular-season championship and the four remaining playoff spots tightened on at Indianapolis Motor Speedway as we take a look at the NASCAR points leaders today.

Let’s immediately dive into the NASCAR points leaders right now. As always, (P) indicates the driver would make the playoffs if the regular season ended today and (*) indicates the driver won a race this season.

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NASCAR points leaders today

PositionDriverPointsBehind 1 Chase Elliott* (P) 726 — 2 William Byron* (P) 722 -4 3 Kyle Larson* (P) 711 -15 4 Denny Hamlin* (P) 706 -20 5 Christopher Bell* (P) 664 -62 6 Tyler Reddick (P) 655 -71 7 Ryan Blaney* (P) 616 -110 8 Chase Briscoe* (P) 599 -127 9 Alex Bowman (P) 575 -151 10 Chris Buescher (P) 559 -167 11 Bubba Wallace* (P) 550 -176 12 Joey Logano* (P) 532 -194 13 Ross Chastain* (P) 518 -208 14 Ryan Preece 517 -209 15 Kyle Busch 478 -248 16 Ty Gibbs 464 -262 17 Austin Cindric* (P) 439 -287 18 AJ Alllmendinger 435 -291 19 Michael McDowell 430 -296 20 John H. Nemechek 425 -301 21 Josh Berry* (P) 414 -312 22 Erik Jones 412 -314 23 Carson Hocevar 410 -316 24 Brad Keselowski 398 -328 25 Shane van Gisbergen* (P) 397 -329 26 Ricky Stenhouse Jr 394 -332 27 Zane Smith 394 -332 28 Todd Gilliland 364 -362 29 Justin Haley 363 -363 30 Austin Dillon 356 -370 31 Daniel Suarez 351 -375 32 Ty Dillon 346 -360 33 Cole Custer 280 -446 34 Noah Gragson 275 -451 35 Riley Hebrst 262 -464 36 Cody Ware 149 -577

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