{"id":79269,"date":"2025-07-21T00:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/79269\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T00:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:06:15","slug":"cup-series-points-leaders-nascar-playoff-picture-after-dover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/79269\/","title":{"rendered":"Cup Series points leaders, NASCAR playoff picture after Dover"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NASCAR schedule<\/a> took us to Dover Motor Speedway this weekend, with Sunday\u2019s Cup Series race representing the 21st points race of the regular season. The conclusion of the EchoPark Automotive 400 means there are only five races left before the playoffs. Following the NASCAR results today<\/a>, here are the Cup Series points leaders heading into Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s dive into the NASCAR Cup Series points leaders after Dover. As always, we use (P) <\/strong>to indicate the driver would make the playoffs if the season ended today and (*) <\/strong>indicates the driver won a race this season.<\/p>\n

Related: Winners, Losers from Sunday\u2019s NASCAR Cup Series race<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

NASCAR points leaders after today<\/p>\nPosition<\/strong>Driver<\/strong>Points<\/strong>Behind<\/strong><\/tr>\n\n1<\/td>\nChase Elliott* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n702<\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2<\/td>\nWilliam Byron* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n685<\/td>\n-17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n3<\/td>\nKyle Larson* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n664<\/td>\n-38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n4<\/td>\nDenny Hamlin* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n663<\/td>\n-39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n5<\/td>\nTyler Reddick (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n640<\/td>\n-62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n6<\/td>\nChristopher Bell* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n635<\/td>\n-67<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n7<\/td>\nRyan Blaney* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n576<\/td>\n-126<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n8<\/td>\nChase Briscoe* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n570<\/td>\n-132<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n9<\/td>\nAlex Bowman (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n547<\/td>\n-155<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n10<\/td>\nChris Buescher (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n528<\/td>\n-174<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n11<\/td>\nJoey Logano* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n524<\/td>\n-178<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n12<\/td>\nRoss Chastain* (P<\/strong>)<\/td>\n517<\/td>\n-185<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n13<\/td>\nBubba Wallace (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n500<\/td>\n-202<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n14<\/td>\nRyan Preece<\/td>\n484<\/td>\n-218<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n15<\/td>\nKyle Busch<\/td>\n461<\/td>\n-241<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n16<\/td>\nTy Gibbs<\/td>\n448<\/td>\n-254<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n17<\/td>\nMichael McDowell<\/td>\n423<\/td>\n-279<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n18<\/td>\nAJ Allmendinger<\/td>\n420<\/td>\n-282<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n19<\/td>\nAustin Cindric* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n417<\/td>\n-285<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n20<\/td>\nErik Jones<\/td>\n411<\/td>\n-291<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n21<\/td>\nJohn Hunter Nemechek<\/td>\n400<\/td>\n-302<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n22<\/td>\nJosh Berry* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n399<\/td>\n-303<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n23<\/td>\nRicky Stenhouse Jr<\/td>\n392<\/td>\n-310<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n24<\/td>\nZane Smith<\/td>\n388<\/td>\n-314<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n25<\/td>\nCarson Hocevar<\/td>\n375<\/td>\n-327<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n26<\/td>\nShane van Gisbergen* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n374<\/td>\n-328<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n27<\/td>\nBrad Keselowski<\/td>\n360<\/td>\n-342<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n28<\/td>\nAustin Dillon<\/td>\n353<\/td>\n-349<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n29<\/td>\nDaniel Suarez<\/td>\n341<\/td>\n-361<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n30<\/td>\nTy Dillon<\/td>\n337<\/td>\n-365<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n31<\/td>\nJustin Haley<\/td>\n337<\/td>\n-365<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n32<\/td>\nTodd Gilliland<\/td>\n333<\/td>\n-369<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n33<\/td>\nNoah Gragson<\/td>\n272<\/td>\n-430<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n34<\/td>\nCole Custer<\/td>\n263<\/td>\n-439<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n35<\/td>\nRiley Herbst<\/td>\n251<\/td>\n-451<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n36<\/td>\nCody Ware<\/td>\n148<\/td>\n-554<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\t\tNFL, MLB & college football writer for Sportsnaut. Graduated from San Diego State University with BA in Journalism, 2019. … More about Matt Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NASCAR schedule took us to Dover Motor Speedway this weekend, with Sunday\u2019s Cup Series race representing the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-79269","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\/114888310018220195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79269","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=79269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}