Chase Elliott is the new NASCAR Cup Series championship point leader, and Bubba Wallace holds down the final spot on the provisional playoff grid with a handful of regular-season races ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Elliott overtook Hendrick Motorsports teammate William Byron after Sunday\u2019s race at Dover Motor Speedway. He led 238 laps and finished sixth while Byron was involved in a late caution and finished 31st. Byron had led the points for 17 of 21 races.<\/p>\n
The regular season champion will be awarded 15 playoff points when the grid is reseeded for the postseason. Elliott stands to gain the most from picking up those points as he currently sits with six playoff points in his bucket.<\/p>\n
There are six drivers in the championship standings who are within 100 points of each other. Elliott leads a Hendrick Motorsports 1-2-3 in the standings, followed by three Toyota drivers from Joe Gibbs Racing and 23XI Racing.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Chase Elliott<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0William Byron \u2013 16\u00a0<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Kyle Larson \u2013 38\u00a0<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Denny Hamlin \u2013 39<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tyler Reddick \u2013 62\u00a0<\/p>\n
6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Christopher Bell \u2013 67\u00a0<\/p>\n
There have been 12 different winners thus far in the regular season. It leaves four spots to be decided over the next five weeks. The highest driver on the provisional playoff grid is Tyler Reddick, who has a 156-point advantage. And the driver on the bubble is Reddick\u2019s 23XI Racing teammate, Wallace.<\/p>\n
Wallace has a slim 16 point advantage on Ryan Preece. Preece is the first driver on the outside looking in.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Denny Hamlin: 4 wins\u00a0<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Kyle Larson: 3 wins\u00a0<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Christopher Bell: 3 wins\u00a0<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Shane van Gisbergen: 3 wins\u00a0<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0William Byron: 1 win\u00a0<\/p>\n
6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ryan Blaney: 1 win\u00a0<\/p>\n
7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Austin Cindric: 1 win\u00a0<\/p>\n
8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Joey Logano: 1 win\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Chase Elliott: 1 win\u00a0<\/p>\n
10.\u00a0\u00a0Chase Briscoe: 1 win\u00a0<\/p>\n
11.\u00a0\u00a0Ross Chastain: 1 win\u00a0<\/p>\n
12.\u00a0\u00a0Josh Berry: 1 win\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
13.\u00a0\u00a0Tyler Reddick +156\u00a0<\/p>\n
14.\u00a0\u00a0Alex Bowman +63\u00a0<\/p>\n
15.\u00a0\u00a0Chris Buescher + 44\u00a0<\/p>\n
16.\u00a0\u00a0Bubba Wallace + 16<\/p>\n
—-\u00a0<\/p>\n
17.\u00a0\u00a0Ryan Preece – 16\u00a0<\/p>\n
18.\u00a0\u00a0Kyle Busch – 39\u00a0<\/p>\n
19.\u00a0\u00a0Ty Gibbs – 52\u00a0<\/p>\n
20.\u00a0\u00a0Michael McDowell – 77\u00a0<\/p>\n
The regular season will conclude with races at Indianapolis, Iowa, Watkins Glen, Richmond, and Daytona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chase Elliott is the new NASCAR Cup Series championship point leader, and Bubba Wallace holds down the final…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":87789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-87788","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\/114906456623606368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87788","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=87788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}