Cup Series points leaders after today

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