NASCAR Cup Series Point Standings After Las Vegas Motor Speedway

With a win in Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Denny Hamlin was able to make a massive move in the point standings, as he leaped forward eight spots this weekend, and now sits fourth in the championship standings.

21 races remain until the "Chase" for the Cup begins, and Hamlin now sits 78 points out of the regular-season points lead.

Tyler Reddick, who won the opening three races of the season, continues to hold firm to the point lead, despite a 13th-place finish at Las Vegas. Reddick will head into next weekend's event at Darlington Raceway with a 61-point advantage.

Bubba Wallace, Reddick's 23XI Racing teammate, continues his very good start to the season as he heads out of Las Vegas as the runner-up driver in the championship standings. Ryan Blaney, who won last weekend's event at Phoenix, fell to third in the championship standings on Sunday, but sits just six points behind Wallace for the second spot.

After a last-place finish on Sunday, Shane van Gisbergen is the final driver above the "Chase" cutoff, and with 21 races remaining until the Chase for the NASCAR Cup begins, van Gisbergen holds a zero-point advantage over Daniel Suarez and A.J. Allmendinger, who left Las Vegas with the same point total (117) as van Gisbergen.

NASCAR Cup Series Point Standings After Pennzoil 400

After race 5 of 36 (21 races remaining until the Chase)

Rank	Car	Driver	Points	Behind
1	45	Tyler Reddick	255	--
2	23	Bubba Wallace	194	-61
3	12	Ryan Blaney	188	-67
4	11	Denny Hamlin	177	-78
5	9	Chase Elliott	168	-87
6	20	Christopher Bell	164	-91
7	5	Kyle Larson	157	-98
8	24	William Byron	157	-98
9	17	Chris Buescher	146	-109
10	54	Ty Gibbs	140	-115
11	22	Joey Logano	135	-120
12	6	Brad Keselowski	127	-128
13	60	Ryan Preece	125	-130
14	71	Michael McDowell	122	-133
15	77	Carson Hocevar	118	-137
16	97	Shane van Gisbergen	117	-138
17	7	Daniel Suarez	117	-138
18	16	A.J. Allmendinger	117	-138
19	38	Zane Smith	108	-147
20	1	Ross Chastain	94	-161
21	42	John Hunter Nemechek	91	-164
22	8	Kyle Busch	90	-165
23	35	Riley Herbst	86	-169
24	3	Austin Dillon	81	-174
25	10	Ty Dillon	80	-175
26	19	Chase Briscoe	76	-179
27	43	Erik Jones	76	-179
28	4	Noah Gragson	73	-182
29	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	72	-183
30	2	Austin Cindric	71	-184
31	34	Todd Gilliland	68	-187
32	21	Josh Berry	56	-199
33	51	Cody Ware	52	-203
34	41	Cole Custer	52	-203
35	88	Connor Zilisch	50	-205
36	48	Alex Bowman	23	-232
37	66	Casey Mears	9	-246
38	78	BJ McLeod	3	-252
39	33	Austin Hill (i)	0	-255
40	48	Justin Allgaier (i)	0	-255
41	33	Jesse Love (i)	0	-255
42	67	Corey Heim (i)	0	-255
43	44	JJ Yeley (i)	0	-255
44	48	Anthony Alfredo (i)	0	-255
45	99	Corey LaJoie	0	-255
46	36	Chandler Smith (i)	0	-255
47	84	Jimmie Johnson	0	-255