{"id":16772,"date":"2015-08-16T18:13:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T22:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=16772"},"modified":"2015-08-16T18:13:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T22:13:06","slug":"nascar-point-standings-following-pure-michigan-400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2015\/08\/16\/nascar-point-standings-following-pure-michigan-400\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Point Standings following Pure Michigan 400"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16611\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/07\/kylebusch.jpg\" alt=\"kylebusch\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/07\/kylebusch.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/07\/kylebusch-594x396.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/07\/kylebusch-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jimmie Johnson and Kyle Busch each have four wins to pace the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series point standings. Matt Kenseth&#8217;s third win of the season has him looking good as the Chase nears.<\/p>\n<p>Below you can see the entire NASCAR Sprint Cup Series point standings following Michigan.<\/p>\n<h2>NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings after Michigan<\/h2>\n<table class=\"tablehead\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"colhead\">\n<td align=\"left\">RK<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">DRIVER<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">POINTS<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">WINS<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">POLES<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">TOP 5<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">TOP 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-227\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Jimmie Johnson<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">752<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">4<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">10<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-580\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">2<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Kyle Busch<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">395<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">4<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">5<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-143\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">3<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Matt Kenseth<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">751<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">3<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">3<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">9<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-225\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">4<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Kevin Harvick<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">866<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">16<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-4319\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">5<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Joey Logano<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">818<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">4<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">13<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-150\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">6<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">784<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">11<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-195\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">7<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Kurt Busch<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">683<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">3<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">8<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-416\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">8<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Martin Truex Jr.<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">755<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">7<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-626\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">9<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Brad Keselowski<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">754<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">5<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-747\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">10<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Denny Hamlin<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">670<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">7<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-460\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">11<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Carl Edwards<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">628<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-223\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">12<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Jamie McMurray<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">663<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-575\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">13<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Paul Menard<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">654<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-213\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">14<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Ryan Newman<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">649<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">4<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-67\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">15<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Jeff Gordon<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">648<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">3<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">3<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-712\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">16<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Clint Bowyer<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">616<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"colhead\">\n<td colspan=\"8\" align=\"center\">*** Chase for the Sprint Cup cut-off ***<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-740\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">17<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Aric Almirola<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">593<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-429\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">18<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Kasey Kahne<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">590<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-221\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">19<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Greg Biffle<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">553<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-4539\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">20<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Kyle Larson<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">548<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-4332\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">21<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Austin Dillon<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">533<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-697\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">22<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Danica Patrick<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">508<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-805\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">23<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">AJ Allmendinger<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">497<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-248\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">24<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Casey Mears<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">495<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-649\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">25<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">David Ragan<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">487<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-607\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">26<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Sam Hornish Jr.<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">450<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-149\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">27<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Tony Stewart<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">441<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-4343\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">28<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Trevor Bayne<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">414<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-4351\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">29<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Ricky Stenhouse Jr.<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">411<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-731\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">30<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Justin Allgaier<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">377<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-4463\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">31<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Cole Whitt<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">372<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-839\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">32<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">David Gilliland<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">354<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-4555\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">33<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Alex 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align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-885\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">37<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Josh Wise<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">193<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-4286\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">38<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Michael McDowell<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">148<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-4527\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">39<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Jeb Burton<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">136<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-4418\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">40<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Alex Kennedy<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">93<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-755\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">41<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Reed Sorenson<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">41<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-64\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">42<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Bobby Labonte<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">39<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-390\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">43<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Brian Vickers<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">32<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">0<\/td>\n<td 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Matt Kenseth&#8217;s third win of the season has him looking good as the Chase nears. Below you can see the entire NASCAR Sprint Cup Series point standings following Michigan. NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings after Michigan RK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-16772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16772"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}