NASCAR Cup Series Point Standings After Darlington

William Byron maintained the NASCAR Cup Series point lead following Sunday's Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway, an event where Byron led 243 laps from the pole, scored two Stage Wins, and finished second.

Byron now holds a 49-point lead over Denny Hamlin, who has won the last two NASCAR Cup Series races, including Sunday's race at Darlington. Christopher Bell, who leads the series with three wins this season, sits third in the championship standings, 52 points back.

Here are the updated NASCAR Cup Series driver point standings after Sunday's Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway, the eighth race of the 36-race NASCAR Cup Series season.

Rank	Car	Driver	Points	Diff	Playoff Pts
1	24	William Byron	315	--	8
2	11	Denny Hamlin	266	-49	12
3	20	Christopher Bell	263	-52	16
4	9	Chase Elliott	256	-59	0
5	45	Tyler Reddick	254	-61	0
6	5	Kyle Larson	244	-71	7
7	12	Ryan Blaney	236	-79	2
8	23	Bubba Wallace	233	-82	1
9	22	Joey Logano	232	-83	2
10	48	Alex Bowman	227	-88	0
11	17	Chris Buescher	215	-100	0
12	1	Ross Chastain	199	-116	0
13	60	Ryan Preece	184	-131	1
14	19	Chase Briscoe	178	-137	0
15	8	Kyle Busch	177	-138	0
16	16	AJ Allmendinger	168	-147	0
17	71	Michael McDowell	167	-148	0
18	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	158	-157	0
19	42	John Hunter Nemechek	155	-160	0
20	21	Josh Berry	154	-161	6
21	2	Austin Cindric	151	-164	1
22	38	Zane Smith	151	-164	0
23	34	Todd Gilliland	148	-167	0
24	99	Daniel Suarez	147	-168	0
25	10	Ty Dillon	141	-174	0
26	54	Ty Gibbs	131	-184	0
27	3	Austin Dillon	128	-187	0
28	43	Erik Jones	128	-187	0
29	7	Justin Haley	127	-188	0
30	77	Carson Hocevar	118	-197	0
31	6	Brad Keselowski	111	-204	0
32	4	Noah Gragson	108	-207	0
33	88	Shane van Gisbergen #	97	-218	0
34	35	Riley Herbst #	92	-223	0
35	41	Cole Custer	77	-238	0
36	51	Cody Ware	44	-271	0
37		Jimmie Johnson	34	-281	0
38		Corey LaJoie	21	-294	0
39		Katherine Legge	7	-308	0
40	44	JJ Yeley *	4	-311	0
41		Casey Mears	2	-313	0
42		Burt Myers	1	-314	0
43		Martin Truex Jr.	1	-314	0
44		Justin Allgaier (i)	0	-315	0
45		BJ McLeod (i)	0	-315	0
46	33	Austin Hill * (i)	0	-315	0
47		Connor Zilisch (i)	0	-315	0
48		Helio Castroneves	0	-315	0
49		Anthony Alfredo (i)	0	-315	0
50		Chandler Smith (i)	0	-315	0

# indicates Rookie of the Year contender
* indicates "Open" entry
(i) indicates driver ineligible to score NASCAR Cup Series points

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