William Byron clinches 2025 NASCAR Cup regular-season championship
RICHMOND, Va. — With a 12th-place finish Saturday night at Richmond Raceway, William Byron clinched the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series regular season championship.
Byron needed to finish 19th or better in the race after Chase Elliott crashed out of the race on lap 198 of 400. He now leads Elliott by 68 points. The maximum points to make up in one race is 60.
Byron has two wins in 2025 — in the Daytona 500 in February and at Iowa Speedway in August. Those wins earned him 10 playoff points and the regular season championship earned him 15 more.
Here are the points standings after Richmond. First through 10th earn playoff points after Daytona:
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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.
A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.
Fjeld has covered a wide array of stories and moments over the years, including Kevin Harvick's final Cup Series season, the first NASCAR national series disqualification in over 50 years, Shane van Gisbergen's stunning win in Chicago and the first Cup Series race at Road America in 66 years – as well as up-and-coming drivers' stories and stories from inside the sport, like the tech it takes for Hendrick Motorsports to remain a top-tier team.
Currently, he resides in Albuquerque, N.M., where he works for KOB 4, an NBC station. He works as a digital producer and does on-air reports. He loves spending time with friends and family, playing and listening to music, exploring new places, being outdoors, reading books and writing among other activities. You can email him at fjeldjonathan@gmail.com