Joey Logano snagged his first win of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Collection season at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday, holding off Ross Chastain and Ryan Blaney in NASCAR additional time. With 11 of 36 races full, right here’s the place the NASCAR Cup Collection area stacks up.
(Final week: 2)
Could 4, 2025; Fort Price, Texas, USA; NASCAR Cup Collection driver Kyle Larson drives through the Wurth 400 race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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Larson led essentially the most laps (90) of any driver within the area on Sunday, however a poor restart late within the race shuffled him from first to fourth and doomed any likelihood of a go to to victory lane. A fourth-place end and a Stage 2 win continues to be an important day, and Larson is now solely 13 factors again of factors chief William Byron.
2. William Byron
(Final week: 1)
Could 4, 2025; Fort Price, Texas, USA; NASCAR Cup Collection driver William Byron drives through the Wurth 400 race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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Byron, the 2023 Texas winner, was surprisingly absent from the dialog on Sunday. Whereas he did handle to steer 22 laps, injury from contact on pit street made his automotive lower than ideally suited to drive and relegated him to a Thirteenth-place end.
(Final week: 6)
Could 4, 2025; Fort Price, Texas, USA; NASCAR Cup Collection driver Christopher Bell is launched earlier than the beginning of the Wurth 400 race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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After a pit-road penalty early within the race, Bell and the No. 20 crew scratched and clawed their strategy to a ninth-place end on Sunday. The profitable tempo current over the primary two months of the season has been largely absent during the last month for Bell, however regulate him to be within the combine for his fourth win of the season at Kansas.
(Final week: 4)
Could 4, 2025; Fort Price, Texas, USA; NASCAR Cup Collection driver Tyler Reddick drives through the Wurth 400 race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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A Twenty first-place end doesn’t start to inform the story for Reddick, who had one of many quickest automobiles in Fort Price on Sunday. Reddick completed second in each phases earlier than a late spin mired him behind the pack. Kansas has been one in every of Reddick’s strongest tracks to date in his younger profession – he received on the 1.5-mile facility in 2023 – so preserve a watch out for the No. 45 as Reddick goes for his first win of 2025.
(Final Week: 3)
Could 4, 2025; Fort Price, Texas, USA; NASCAR Cup Collection driver Denny Hamlin is launched earlier than the beginning of the Wurth 400 race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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How briskly was Denny Hamlin on Sunday at Texas? Due to a blown engine in Stage 1, we’ll by no means know. Hamlin completed thirty eighth on Sunday after his No. 11 Toyota misplaced an engine and briefly caught fireplace. Hamlin is a four-time winner at Kansas, and after a disappointing day within the Lone Star State, he’d love nothing greater than to rebound within the Heartland.
(Final week: 8)
Could 4, 2025; Fort Price, Texas, USA; NASCAR Cup Collection driver Ryan Blaney drives through the Wurth 400 race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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Blaney was fairly harsh on himself in post-race interviews after ending third on Sunday, saying that he “can’t do nothing proper” after he selected the surface lane for the race-deciding restart. Nonetheless, Blaney has had loads of pace to date in 2025. If his automotive stays in a single piece at Kansas, he’ll possible be in competition for his first win of 2025.
(Final week: 5)
Could 4, 2025; Fort Price, Texas, USA; NASCAR Cup Collection driver Chase Elliott drives through the Wurth 400 race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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Elliott is having a smoke-and-mirrors season: he’s been constant sufficient that conversations about main modifications to the crew appear preposterous, whereas on the identical time, his fourth-place standing within the factors appears to cover the problems the No. 9 crew is having. Elliott didn’t have the automotive to contend on Sunday, however a two-tire cease put him on the entrance row for a restart that noticed Elliott promptly fall by the sphere like a rock. Elliott completed sixteenth – a irritating day at a monitor that was the positioning of his final win.
(Final week: 10)
Could 4, 2025; Fort Price, Texas, USA; NASCAR Cup Collection driver Ross Chastain drives through the Wurth 400 race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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Chastain described the march from his Thirty first-place beginning spot to his runner-up end at Texas as a “working class day.” The No. 1 crew nonetheless must discover a strategy to unload with sooner automobiles, however Chastain continues to plug away and discover the finishes he wants to remain afloat.
(Final week: 7)
Could 4, 2025; Fort Price, Texas, USA; A view of the injury to the automotive of NASCAR Cup Collection driver Alex Bowman as he drives through the Wurth 400 race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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Bowman was one of many few drivers who might make vital headway on Sunday, however a crash on Lap 172 ended Bowman’s day after a poor pit cease mired him deep within the area. Bowman continues to be tenth in factors regardless of his abundance of misfortune this season, and Kansas offers a superb alternative for the No. 48 crew to bounce again.
(Final week: 12)
Could 4, 2025; Fort Price, Texas, USA; NASCAR Cup Collection driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is launched earlier than the beginning of the Wurth 400 race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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A sixth-place end at Texas bumped Stenhouse Jr. as much as fifteenth within the regular-season standings, persevering with a surprisingly sizzling begin to the 2025 season for the rebranded HYAK Motorsports group. Not many pundits predicted that Stenhouse can be within the playoff image in 2025, however to date, the 2023 Daytona 500 champion is proving his doubters flawed.
(Final week: 9)
Could 4, 2025; Fort Price, Texas, USA; A view of the injury to the automotive of NASCAR Cup Collection driver Bubba Wallace as he drives through the Wurth 400 race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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Wallace noticed a possible top-10 day come to an finish in the identical Lap 172 crash that took out Bowman. Regardless of his Thirty third-place end, Wallace nonetheless sits a snug eighth within the standings, thanks largely to the 100 stage factors he’s racked up this season.
12. Joey Logano
(Final week: 16)
Could 4, 2025; Fort Price, Texas, USA; NASCAR Cup Collection driver Joey Logano celebrates in victory lane with the winner’s trophy after he wins the Wurth 400 race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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Logano earned his first top-five end of 2025 in fashion by stealing a win at Texas. In typical Logano trend, the No. 22 was a silent killer on Sunday, hanging across the prime 10 earlier than pouncing when the time was proper. With the strain of creating the playoffs off his shoulders, Logano and the No. 22 crew have the chance to take notes and take a look at new methods forward of the postseason.
(Final week: 13)
Could 4, 2025; Fort Price, Texas, USA; NASCAR Cup Collection driver Austin Cindric drives through the Wurth 400 race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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Cindric, who received at Talladega on April 27, was quick early in Sunday’s race at Texas. The No. 2 spent 60 laps out entrance earlier than Cindric was shuffled again within the pack and finally concerned in a crash. Whatever the consequence, the No. 2 crew has arguably essentially the most pace its ever had since Cindric received behind the wheel in 2022.
(Final week: 11)
Could 4, 2025; Fort Price, Texas, USA; A view of the injury to the automotive of NASCAR Cup Collection driver Chase Briscoe as he leaves the monitor through the Wurth 400 race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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Briscoe completed twenty seventh after an early crash took him out of competition, however the No. 19 crew nonetheless resides contained in the playoff image after a tumultuous day at Texas. Whereas Briscoe does have a slight cushion to the playoff reduce line, it might be good to see him string extra outcomes collectively.
(Final week: Not Ranked)
Could 4, 2025; Fort Price, Texas, USA; NASCAR Cup Collection driver Chris Buescher is launched earlier than the beginning of the Wurth 400 race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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Buescher completed 18th on Sunday, however the Texas native deserves his flowers. Each time a crash occurred, it appeared as if Buescher was proper in the course of it. His quiet 2025 marketing campaign has the No. 17 crew twelfth in factors because the midway mark of the regular-season attracts close to.
(Final week: 15)
Could 4, 2025; Fort Price, Texas, USA; NASCAR Cup Collection driver Carson Hocevar (77) drives through the Wurth 400 race at Texas Motor Speedway.
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Hocevar was the quickest man at TMS on Saturday, as he paced the pace charts in follow and received the pole. Sadly, his race didn’t go as deliberate, as a late crash took him out of competition and relegated him to a Twenty fourth-place end. Hocevar has as a lot uncooked pace as any driver within the Cup Collection, however he should discover a strategy to rein his pace and aggression in in order that pace can produce good finishes.
