{"id":207365,"date":"2025-09-07T10:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/207365\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:25:13","slug":"nascar-playoff-picture-cup-series-points-standings-before-gateway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/207365\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR playoff picture: Cup Series points standings before Gateway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/sports\/nascar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NASCAR Cup Series;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NASCAR Cup Series<\/a> continues in the Round of 16 on Sept. 7 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/nascar\/2025\/09\/06\/nascar-qualifying-results-gateway-starting-lineup-race-tomorrow\/85996453007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Enjoy Illinois 300;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Enjoy Illinois 300<\/a> at World Wide Technology Raceway.<\/p>\n<p>Chase Briscoe is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/nascar\/2025\/08\/31\/nascar-points-standings-updated-cup-series-darlington-playoff-picture\/85924209007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:only playoff driver locked into the next round;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">only playoff driver locked into the next round<\/a> after last weekend&#8217;s win at Darlington. Denny Hamlin, Kyle Larson and Tyler Reddick could all clinch a spot in the Round of 12 via points as soon as this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Alex Bowman and Josh Berry are each 19 points below the playoff cutline after poor results at Darlington.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the NASCAR Cup Series playoff picture heading into Gateway:<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR playoff picture before Gateway race<\/p>\n<p>After of Race 1 of 3 in Round of 16; Top 12 drivers advance to next round, with a win locking drivers into next round<\/p>\n<p>1. Chase Briscoe (locked into Round of 12 with Darlington win)<\/p>\n<p>2. Denny Hamlin +43 ahead of 13th<\/p>\n<p>3. Kyle Larson +36<\/p>\n<p>4. Tyler Reddick +35<\/p>\n<p>5. Bubba Wallace +25<\/p>\n<p>6. William Byron +25<\/p>\n<p>7. Ryan Blaney +22<\/p>\n<p>8. Ross Chastain +21<\/p>\n<p>9. Austin Cindric +12<\/p>\n<p>10. Christopher Bell +11<\/p>\n<p>11. Chase Elliott +9<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>12. Shane van Gisbergen +3<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>13. Joey Logano -3 behind 12th<\/p>\n<p>14. Austin Dillon -8<\/p>\n<p>15. Alex Bowman -19<\/p>\n<p>16. Josh Berry -19<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR Cup Series playoffs schedule<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Aug. 31:<\/strong> Southern 500, Darlington Raceway (Winner: Chase Briscoe) Round of 16<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Sept. 7:<\/strong> Enjoy Illinois 300, World Wide Technology Raceway (2 p.m., USA Network) Round of 16<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Sept. 13:<\/strong> Bass Pro Shops Night Race, Bristol Motor Speedway (6:30 p.m., USA Network) Round of 16<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Sept. 21:<\/strong> NASCAR Cup Series Race at New Hampshire, New Hampshire Motor Speedway (1 p.m., USA Network) Round of 12<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Sept. 28:<\/strong> Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas Speedway (2 p.m., USA Network) Round of 12<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Oct. 5: <\/strong>Bank of America Roval 400, Charlotte Motor Speedway road course (2 p.m., USA Network) Round of 12<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Oct. 12:<\/strong> South Point 400, Las Vegas Motor Speedway (4:30 p.m., USA Network) Round of 8<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Oct. 19:<\/strong> YellaWood 500, Talladega Superspeedway (1 p.m., NBC) Round of 8<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Oct. 26:<\/strong> Xfinity 500, Martinsville Speedway (1 p.m., NBC) Round of 8<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Nov. 2:<\/strong> NASCAR Cup Series Championship race, Phoenix Raceway (2 p.m., NBC)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/nascar\/2025\/09\/07\/nascar-playoff-picture-gateway-cup-series-points\/86023458007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NASCAR playoff picture: Cup points standings bfore Gateway race;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NASCAR playoff picture: Cup points standings bfore Gateway race<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NASCAR Cup Series continues in the Round of 16 on Sept. 7 with the Enjoy Illinois 300&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":207366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[35119,46824,4422,11130,75491,15865,1406,1459,113950,20534,62,24389,67,132,68,60283,22880,110020],"class_list":{"0":"post-207365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-alex-bowman","9":"tag-chase-briscoe","10":"tag-chase-elliott","11":"tag-denny-hamlin","12":"tag-josh-berry","13":"tag-kyle-larson","14":"tag-nascar","15":"tag-nascar-cup-series","16":"tag-nascar-cup-series-playoffs","17":"tag-ryan-blaney","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-tyler-reddick","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa-network","24":"tag-william-byron","25":"tag-world-wide-technology-raceway"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115162534707778849","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207365","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=207365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}