{"id":1163531,"date":"2026-02-23T00:39:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1163531"},"modified":"2026-02-23T00:39:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:39:45","slug":"nascar-points-standings-cup-series-points-update-after-atlanta-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/nascar-points-standings-cup-series-points-update-after-atlanta-race\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR points standings, Cup Series points update after Atlanta race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Tyler Reddick continues to lead in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/sports\/nascar\/\">NASCAR Cup Series<\/a> points standings by virtue of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/nascar\/2026\/02\/22\/nascar-atlanta-race-leaderboard-live-updates-highlights-cup-series-2026-race\/88779084007\/\">second victory in two races this season.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reddick made the pass for the lead heading to the white flag, then held off Chase Briscoe and others to win the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/nascar\/2026\/02\/22\/nascar-atlanta-cup-races-results-tyler-reddick-winner-2026\/88815410007\/\">Autotrader 400<\/a> on Feb. 22 at EchoPark Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Reddick and teammate Bubba Wallace are first and second in the points standings through two races.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the updated NASCAR Cup Series points standings:<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 timestamp-anchor wp-block-heading\"><a>NASCAR points standings, Cup Series points update after Atlanta race<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><em>Unofficial after Atlanta<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tyler Reddick 125 points, +81 to 17th placeBubba Wallace +41Chase Elliott +37Carson Hocevar +30Zane Smith +27Joey Logano +24Daniel Suarez +23Ryan Blaney +23Brad Keselowski +17Chris Buescher +17Ross Chastain +8Noah Gragson +6William Byron +6Ryan Preece +5Chase Briscoe +1Shane van Gisbergen +0Ty Dillon -0 behind 16th (behind on tiebreaker)AJ Allmendinger -1John Hunter Nemechek -1Michael McDowell -1Kyle Larson -2Ricky Stenhouse Jr. -4Riley Herbst -5Kyle Busch -8Josh Berry -10Austin Cindric -10Denny Hamlin -12Cody Ware -14Erik Jones -15Cole Custer -15Christopher Bell -19Alex Bowman -26Ty Gibbs -27Austin Dillon -27Todd Gilliland -28Connor Zilisch -30<\/p>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/nascar\/2026\/02\/22\/nascar-points-standings-updated-cup-series-atlanta-playoff-picture\/88779082007\/\">NASCAR points standings, Cup Series points update after Atlanta race<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/nascar-points-standings-cup-series-003945128.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/nascar-points-standings-cup-series-003945128.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Reddick continues to lead in the NASCAR Cup Series points standings by virtue of his second victory in two races this season. Reddick made&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}