The 2025 NASCAR regular season came to an end in the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Ryan Blaney emerged victorious following a close finish, marking his second win this year.<\/p>\n
There were high stakes entering the event, as 14 drivers had already qualified for the Cup Series Playoffs while two more spots were still available.<\/p>\n
With the regular season now in the rearview mirror, here’s a look at the Round of 16 schedule and point standings.<\/p>\n
Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway, Aug. 31 at 6 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
Enjoy Illinois 300 at World Wide Technology Raceway, Sept. 7 at 3 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway, Sept. 13 at 7:30 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
NASCAR Cup Series Playoff Standings<\/strong><\/p>\n Alex Bowman held one of the final two playoff spots heading into the race, but a win from a driver that hadn’t stood atop the podium during the 2025 season would have prevented him from advancing.<\/p>\n Bowman also would have made the playoffs with a win, but his hopes of doing so were extinguished after he was involved in a Stage 1 wreck.<\/p>\n The race went four-wide on the final lap with Justin Haley, Cole Custer and Daniel Su\u00e1rez alongside Blaney. A win from any of the three drivers would have knocked out Bowman, but Blaney’s victory wasn’t his first of the season and allowed Bowman to clinch a playoff spot.<\/p>\n Following the narrow finish, Bowman and the rest of the playoff field will now look towards the Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 NASCAR regular season came to an end in the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-170772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115081693418960369","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}