Ryan Blaney leads Cup Series in stage points
A quarter way through the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season (nine of 36 races), Ryan Blaney continues to lead the field in most stage points earned.
Blaney placed Top-10 inside both stages in the Food City 500 Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway, earning seven stage points.
Blaney has earned 89 points, followed by William Byron (81), Kyle Larson (79), Bubba Wallace (68), and Alex Bowman (66).
Kyle Larson swept the opening two stages at Bristol to earn 20 stage points in the Food City 500.
Spire Motorsports’ Justin Haley finished both Bristol opening stages inside the Top-10, earning 13 points — his first stage points of 2025.
In total, 33 drivers have earned stage points this year. The lone three full-time drivers yet to earn stage points are No. 3 Austin Dillon, No. 35 Riley Herbst, and No. 51 Cody Ware.
STAGE POINT TOTALS
| DRIVER | POINTS |
| Ryan Blaney | 89 |
| William Byron | 81 |
| Kyle Larson | 79 |
| Bubba Wallace | 68 |
| Alex Bowman | 66 |
| Joey Logano | 64 |
| Denny Hamlin | 54 |
| Christopher Bell | 47 |
| Austin Cindric | 47 |
| Chase Elliott | 46 |
| Tyler Reddick | 46 |
| Carson Hocevar | 33 |
| Josh Berry | 31 |
| Ryan Preece | 31 |
| A.J. Allmendinger | 25 |
| Brad Keselowski | 21 |
| Ty Gibbs | 17 |
| Chase Briscoe | 16 |
| Daniel Suarez | 16 |
| Shane Van Gisbergen | 14 |
| Ricky Stenhouse Jr. | 14 |
| Justin Haley | 13 |
| Chris Buescher | 12 |
| Ross Chastain | 12 |
| Todd Gilliland | 10 |
| Kyle Busch | 8 |
| Michael McDowell | 8 |
| Erik Jones | 6 |
| John Hunter Nemechek | 6 |
| Ty Dillon | 3 |
| Noah Gragson | 3 |
| Cole Custer | 2 |
| Zane Smith | 2 |
STAGE POINTS EXPLAINED
NASCAR awards points to the Top-10 finishers in each stage of a points race (except the Clash, Duels and All-Star Race). Each race has two stages except the Coca-Cola 600, which has three.
A stage winner earns 10 points while the second-place driver earns 9. Third-place earns 8 points, down to the 10th-place driver who earns 1.
Stage points are added to a driver’s points for their finishing position. Finishing first awards a driver 40 points, second awards 34, down to 36th through 40th-place each awarding 1 point.
The totals in this article do not include the points earned in the Daytona qualifier races.
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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