Sunday marked the 20th Cup Series race on the regular season portion of the NASCAR schedule , with Sonoma Raceway delivering the second consecutive road course race in two weeks. Fittingly, the road course delivered quite a bit of shakeup in the NASCAR points standings with only seven races remaining before the playoffs.
Related: NASCAR results today from Sonoma, NASCAR stage results
Let's dive into the NASCAR points standings after Sonoma. As always (*) indicates driver won a race and (P) indicates they would make the NASCAR playoffs if the regular season ended today.
NASCAR points leaders today: Cup Series points standings
| Position |
Driver |
Points |
Behind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
William Byron* (P) |
668 |
— |
| 2 |
Chase Elliott* (P) |
654 |
-14 |
| 3 |
Kyle Larson* (P) |
624 |
-44 |
| 4 |
Tyler Reddick (P) |
614 |
-54 |
| 5 |
Denny Hamlin* (P) |
606 |
-62 |
| 6 |
Christopher Bell* (P) |
597 |
-71 |
| 7 |
Ryan Blaney* (P) |
545 |
-123 |
| 8 |
Chase Briscoe* (P) |
526 |
-142 |
| 9 |
Ross Chastain* (P) |
513 |
-144 |
| 10 |
Chris Buescher (P) |
500 |
-168 |
| 11 |
Joey Logano* (P) |
499 |
-169 |
| 12 |
Alex Bowman (P) |
498 |
-170 |
| 13 |
Bubba Wallace (P) |
469 |
-199 |
| 14 |
Ryan Preece |
466 |
-202 |
| 15 |
Kyle Busch |
432 |
-236 |
| 16 |
AJ Allmendinger |
419 |
-249 |
| 17 |
Ty Gibbs |
409 |
-259 |
| 18 |
Erik Jones |
401 |
-267 |
| 19 |
Michael McDowell |
399 |
-269 |
| 20 |
Austin Cindric* (P) |
396 |
-272 |
| 21 |
Josh Berry* (P) |
390 |
-278 |
| 22 |
John Hunter Nemechek |
384 |
-284 |
| 23 |
Ricky Stenhosue Jr |
378 |
-290 |
| 24 |
Carson Hocevar |
373 |
-295 |
| 25 |
Zane Smith |
373 |
-295 |
| 26 |
Shane van Gisbergen* (P) |
367 |
-301 |
| 27 |
Brad Keselowski |
333 |
-335 |
| 28 |
Austin Dillon |
331 |
-337 |
| 29 |
Daniel Suarez |
330 |
-338 |
| 30 |
Ty Dillon |
320 |
-348 |
| 31 |
Todd Gilliland |
320 |
-348 |
| 32 |
Justin Haley |
317 |
-351 |
| 33 |
Noah Gragson |
266 |
-402 |
| 34 |
Cole Custer |
256 |
-412 |
| 35 |
Riley Herbst |
238 |
-430 |
| 36 |
Cody Ware |
147 |
-521 |
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