{"id":208769,"date":"2025-09-07T23:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/208769\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T23:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:15:17","slug":"nascar-playoffs-bracket-2025-point-standings-after-wwtr-round-of-16-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/208769\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Playoffs Bracket 2025 Point Standings After WWTR Round of 16 Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Denny Hamlin joined his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Chase Briscoe in the NASCAR Cup Series round of 12 with his Sunday win at World Wide Technology Raceway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Hamlin led 75 of the 240 laps and beat out Briscoe for the top spot in the second race of the round of 16. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Chase Elliott, Ryan Blaney and Joey Logano rounded out the top five for the Enjoy Illinois 300.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Hamlin&#8217;s win placed him into the round of 12 along with Briscoe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The pair of Joe Gibbs Racing drivers are the two winners so far in the round of 16, which concludes next Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The full updated NASCAR playoff standings can be found here on the <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/nascar-cup-series\/2025-playoffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">NASCAR website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Kyle Larson, Tyler Reddick and Ryan Blaney are all in solid position to advance to the round of 12 on points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">All three of those drivers reside 40+ points ahead of the cut line. Bubba Wallace, Christopher Bell, William Byron and Christopher Bell all appear to be in good shape as well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The bottom four in the playoff standings are anywhere from 15 to 45 points beneath the round of 12 cut line. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Josh Berry and Alex Bowman are in the worst spots in the round of 16. Berry finished 36th on Sunday, while Bowman placed in 26th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Both of those drivers likely need a win at Bristol in order to keep their championship hopes alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Shane Van Gisbergen and Austin Dillon can still advance on points, but they need might need some help to catch Austin Cindric in 12th place .<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Dillon had a top-10 finish at Bristol in April. He should have the most hope of the four drivers in 13th through 16th to jump into the top 12. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Larson, Hamlin, Briscoe and Blaney all had top-five finishes earlier in the season at Bristol, so we could see dominance from the top drivers in the playoff standings to close out the round of 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin joined his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Chase Briscoe in the NASCAR Cup Series round of 12&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":208770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-208769","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\/115165562681902908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208769","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=208769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}