{"id":66483,"date":"2025-07-15T03:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T03:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/66483\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T03:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T03:13:10","slug":"kyle-busch-gains-on-nascar-cup-playoff-cutline-with-6-races-left-in-regular-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/66483\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Busch gains on NASCAR Cup playoff cutline with 6 races left in regular season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Busch remains outside a playoff spot with six races left in the regular season, but he closed the gap after last weekend\u2019s race at Sonoma Raceway.<\/p>\n<p>Busch\u2019s 10th-place finish helped him gain nine points on the cutline. He goes into Sunday\u2019s race at Dover Motor Speedway 37 points behind Bubba Wallace for the final playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Preece remains the first driver outside a playoff spot. He is three points behind Wallace after losing one point to Wallace at Sonoma.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve different drivers have won a race this season, leaving four playoff positions via points at this time. <\/p>\n<p>Tyler Reddick is 149 points above the cutline. Chris Buescher is 34 points above the cutline, and Alex Bowman is 32 points above the cutline, held by Wallace. <\/p>\n<p>Here is a look at the playoff standings heading to Dover (those in yellow have won this season):<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"image-610000\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Race 20 Cup Playoffs after Sonoma.jpg\"  width=\"541\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752549190_336_\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Busch remains outside a playoff spot with six races left in the regular season, but he closed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-66483","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\/114855071183945855","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66483","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=66483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}