NASCAR Standings Today: Cup Series Points Leaders after Bristol
Randy Sartin-Imagn Images Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway brought some chaos to the 2026 season. While Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney and Chase Briscoe dominated, the NASCAR standings today got quite a bit of a shakeup thanks to major issues for Christopher Bell and William Byron. Of note with the NASCAR standings today, there’s no changes at the very top or bottom.
Tyler Reddick is still the Cup Series points leader through eight races and, following a four-race absence, Alex Bowman has the fewest points amont full-time drivers. Related: Winners, Losers from the Food City 500 Let’s dive right into the NASCAR Cup Series points leaders right now after Sunday’s Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway. We also included the biggest risers and fallers in the NASCAR standings today.
Biggest Risers Chase Briscoe — +4 Kyle Larson — +3 Bubba Wallace — +3 Ty Gibbs — +2 Carson Hocevar — +2 Todd Gilliland — +2 Biggest Fallers Brad Keselowski — -3 William Byron — -2 Christopher Bell — -2 Shane van Gisbergen — -2 Michael McDowell — -2 Ross Chastain — -2 NASCAR Standings Right Now: Points Leaderboard after Bristol Rank Driver Points Behind 1 Tyler Reddick 386 — 2 Ryan Blaney 324 -62 3 Denny Hamlin 300 -86 4 Ty Gibbs 281 -105 5 Chase Elliott 264 -122 6 Kyle Larson 260 -126 7 William Byron 245 -141 8 Bubba Wallace 236 -150 9 Christopher Bell 231 -155 10 Chris Buescher 230 -156 11 Brad Keselowski 229 -157 12 Joey Logano 218 -168 13 Carson Hocevar 209 -177 14 Ryan Preece 209 -177 15 Daniel Suarez 192 -194 16 — CUT LINE Shane van Gisbergen 177 -209 17 Chase Briscoe 176 -210 18 Austin Cindric 172 -214 19 Michael McDowell 171 -215 20 AJ Allmendinger 156 -230 21 Ross Chastain 153 -233 22 Zane Smith 153 -233 23 Erik Jones 133 -253 24 Kyle Busch 131 -255 25 Josh Berry 128 -258 26 Todd Gilliland 127 -259 27 Austin Dillon 124 -262 28 John Hunter Nemechek 111 -275 29 Riley Herbst 109 -277 30 Ricky Stenhouse Jr 107 -279 31 Noah Gragson 104 -282 32 Ty Dillon 95 -291 33 Connor Zilisch 84 -302 34 Cole Custer 76 -310 35 Cody Ware 64 -322 36 Alex Bowman 24 -362 Official 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Results at Bristol Motor Speedway Related Headlines Food City 500: Winners, Losers from the NASCAR Race Today at Bristol NASCAR Results Today: Food City 500 Winner, NASCAR Stage Results at Bristol NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series Standings Today: OARS Points Leaders after Bristol