Monday, July 28, 2014

2014 Week 20 Chase Standings

Chase Standings after the First 20 Races


By Richard Tix

NASCAR is leaving Indianapolis Motor Speedway behind and it was not a surprise winner, instead it was Jeff Gordon winning a series best 5th time at IMS. So, we have no new winners but there was a small shake up in the Chase standings. Who is in? Who is out if the regular season ended today?


Race to the Chase Standings
Rank
Driver
Wins
Points
Pts Back
Last Week
1
Brad Keselowski
3
666

1
2
Jimmie Johnson
3
628

2
3
Jeff Gordon
2
717

7
4
Dale Earnhardt Jr
2
693

3
5
Carl Edwards
2
603

4
6
Joey Logano
2
591

5
7
Kevin Harvick
2
565

6
8
Kyle Busch
1
609

8
9
Denny Hamlin
1
**497

9
10
Aric Almirola
1
496

10
11
Kurt Busch
1
456

11
12
Matt Kenseth
0
661

12
13
Ryan Newman
0
606

13
14
Clint Bowyer
0
577

14
15
Kyle Larson
0
562

17
16
Austin Dillon
0
559

16
17
Kasey Kahne
0
555
-4
19
18
Paul Menard
0
551
-7
15
19
Greg Biffle
0
550
-9
18
20
Brian Vickers
0
532
-27
20
21
Tony Stewart
0
529
-30
21
22
Marcus Ambrose
0
511
-48
22
23
Jamie McMurray
0
499
-60
23
24
AJ Allmendinger
0
466
-93
26
25
Martin Truex Jr
0
465
-94
24
26
Casey Mears
0
455
-104
25
27
Ricky Stenhouse Jr
0
397
-162
28
28
Danica Patrick
0
382
-177
27
*Pts Back= Points back from the last Chase spot
*Last Week= Where they were in the standings last week.
** Updated 7/29: Denny Hamlin and team were docked 75 points by NASCAR. He had 572 total points before. He did not lose any ground in the new Chase standings though (still 1 point ahead of Almirola). 

Kasey Kahne and Paul Menard are the big movers this week. Kahne moved from 19th up to 17th and the first driver outside the top 16. Meanwhile, Menard moved from a spot in the Chase (15th) all the way down to 18th and 7 points out.

The most important move of the week? Kyle Larson went from tied with Austin Dillon for the final Chase spot to 15th. Larson is now up 3 on Dillon (who is in 16th) and 7 up on Kahne in 17th. Without this new system no one would even know who Kurt Busch is this year. He would be 103 points out of 16th in the standings, which is a must win spot to be in.

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