{"id":97802,"date":"2025-07-27T22:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/97802\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T22:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:23:10","slug":"cup-series-playoff-picture-after-brickyard-400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/97802\/","title":{"rendered":"Cup Series playoff picture after Brickyard 400"},"content":{"rendered":"

The conclusion of Sunday\u2019s Brickyard 400 means only four races are remaining on the regular-season portion of the NASCAR schedule<\/a>. Both the battle for the regular-season championship and the four remaining playoff spots tightened on at Indianapolis Motor Speedway as we take a look at the NASCAR points leaders today.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s immediately dive into the NASCAR points leaders right now. As always, (P) <\/strong>indicates the driver would make the playoffs if the regular season ended today and (*) <\/strong>indicates the driver won a race this season.<\/p>\n

Related: Winners, Losers from the Brickyard 400<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

NASCAR points leaders today<\/p>\nPosition<\/strong>Driver<\/strong>Points<\/strong>Behind<\/strong><\/tr>\n\n1<\/td>\nChase Elliott* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n726<\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2<\/td>\nWilliam Byron* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n722<\/td>\n-4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n3<\/td>\nKyle Larson* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n711<\/td>\n-15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n4<\/td>\nDenny Hamlin* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n706<\/td>\n-20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n5<\/td>\nChristopher Bell* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n664<\/td>\n-62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n6<\/td>\nTyler Reddick (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n655<\/td>\n-71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n7<\/td>\nRyan Blaney* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n616<\/td>\n-110<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n8<\/td>\nChase Briscoe* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n599<\/td>\n-127<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n9<\/td>\nAlex Bowman (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n575<\/td>\n-151<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n10<\/td>\nChris Buescher (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n559<\/td>\n-167<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n11<\/td>\nBubba Wallace* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n550<\/td>\n-176<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n12<\/td>\nJoey Logano* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n532<\/td>\n-194<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n13<\/td>\nRoss Chastain* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n518<\/td>\n-208<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n14<\/td>\nRyan Preece<\/td>\n517<\/td>\n-209<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n15<\/td>\nKyle Busch<\/td>\n478<\/td>\n-248<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n16<\/td>\nTy Gibbs<\/td>\n464<\/td>\n-262<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n17<\/td>\nAustin Cindric* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n439<\/td>\n-287<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n18<\/td>\nAJ Alllmendinger<\/td>\n435<\/td>\n-291<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n19<\/td>\nMichael McDowell<\/td>\n430<\/td>\n-296<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n20<\/td>\nJohn H. Nemechek<\/td>\n425<\/td>\n-301<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n21<\/td>\nJosh Berry* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n414<\/td>\n-312<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n22<\/td>\nErik Jones<\/td>\n412<\/td>\n-314<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n23<\/td>\nCarson Hocevar<\/td>\n410<\/td>\n-316<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n24<\/td>\nBrad Keselowski<\/td>\n398<\/td>\n-328<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n25<\/td>\nShane van Gisbergen* (P)<\/strong><\/td>\n397<\/td>\n-329<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n26<\/td>\nRicky Stenhouse Jr<\/td>\n394<\/td>\n-332<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n27<\/td>\nZane Smith<\/td>\n394<\/td>\n-332<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n28<\/td>\nTodd Gilliland<\/td>\n364<\/td>\n-362<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n29<\/td>\nJustin Haley<\/td>\n363<\/td>\n-363<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n30<\/td>\nAustin Dillon<\/td>\n356<\/td>\n-370<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n31<\/td>\nDaniel Suarez<\/td>\n351<\/td>\n-375<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n32<\/td>\nTy Dillon<\/td>\n346<\/td>\n-360<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n33<\/td>\nCole Custer<\/td>\n280<\/td>\n-446<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n34<\/td>\nNoah Gragson<\/td>\n275<\/td>\n-451<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n35<\/td>\nRiley Hebrst<\/td>\n262<\/td>\n-464<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n36<\/td>\nCody Ware<\/td>\n149<\/td>\n-577<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\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 conclusion of Sunday\u2019s Brickyard 400 means only four races are remaining on the regular-season portion of the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-97802","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\/114927541460290496","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97802","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=97802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}