NASCAR Cup Series Point Standings After Phoenix Raceway

Ryan Blaney was able to rebound from adversity early and often in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series Straight Talk Wireless 500 at Phoenix Raceway to score his first win of the 2026 season. And in doing so, Blaney was able to vault up to the second position in the NASCAR Cup Series standings.

With the win, Blaney was able to shave 10 points off of Tyler Reddick’s point lead, which now stands at 60 points over Blaney after Sunday’s race at Phoenix, where Reddick finished eighth. Prior to Blaney’s win, Reddick had won each of the opening three races of the season, an all-time NASCAR Cup Series record to start a season.

Bubba Wallace fell one spot to third in the standings, as he is now 72 points back, while Chase Elliott is 97 points back in fourth. Incredibly, road race ringer Shane van Gisbergen continues to churn out good results, and after an 11th-place finish at Phoenix, he sits fifth in points, 109 points behind Reddick.

Brad Keselowski is the final driver above the “Chase” cutoff, and with 22 races remaining until the Chase for the NASCAR Cup begins, Keselowski holds a two-point advantage over Daniel Suarez, eight points over Ryan Preece, and 15 points over Zane Smith.

NASCAR Cup Series Point Standings After Straight Talk Wireless 500

After race 4 of 36 (22 races remaining until the Chase)

Rank	Car	Driver	Points	Behind
1	45	Tyler Reddick	225	—
2	12	Ryan Blaney	165	-60
3	23	Bubba Wallace	153	-72
4	9	Chase Elliott	128	-97
5	97	Shane van Gisbergen	116	-109
6	20	Christopher Bell	113	-112
7	22	Joey Logano	113	-112
8	71	Michael McDowell	111	-114
9	17	Chris Buescher	111	-114
10	5	Kyle Larson	109	-116
11	24	William Byron	108	-117
12	11	Denny Hamlin	107	-118
13	16	AJ Allmendinger	104	-121
14	77	Carson Hocevar	103	-122
15	54	Ty Gibbs	101	-124
16	6	Brad Keselowski	100	-125
17	7	Daniel Suarez	98	-127
18	60	Ryan Preece	92	-133
19	38	Zane Smith	85	-140
20	8	Kyle Busch	81	-144
21	10	Ty Dillon	76	-149
22	42	John Hunter Nemechek	75	-150
23	1	Ross Chastain	74	-151
24	35	Riley Herbst	72	-153
25	4	Noah Gragson	66	-159
26	34	Todd Gilliland	65	-160
27	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	64	-161
28	43	Erik Jones	59	-166
29	3	Austin Dillon	56	-169
30	2	Austin Cindric	52	-173
31	21	Josh Berry	50	-175
32	51	Cody Ware	50	-175
33	19	Chase Briscoe	47	-178
34	88	Connor Zilisch	45	-180
35	41	Cole Custer	42	-183
36	48	Alex Bowman	23	-202
37	66	Casey Mears	9	-216
38	78	BJ McLeod	3	-222
39	33	Austin Hill (i)	0	-225
40	33	Jesse Love (i)	0	-225
41	67	Corey Heim (i)	0	-225
42	44	JJ Yeley (i)	0	-225
43	48	Anthony Alfredo (i)	0	-225
44	40	Justin Allgaier (i)	0	-225
45	99	Corey LaJoie	0	-225
46	36	Chandler Smith (i)	0	-225
47	84	Jimmie JohnsonTyler Reddick just keeps winning, and afterhis third consecutive win to start the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season, his hold on the top spot in the NASCAR Cup Series point standings has strengthened. Reddick leaves Austin, Texas, with a massive 70-point advantage in the standings. Bubba Wallace, whofinished 11th in Sunday’s DuraMax Texas Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas, is the second-place man in the NASCAR Cup Series standings, yet again this week, which means 23XI Racing continues to hold down the top-two spots in the standings.	0	-225