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Where All 36 Cup Drivers Stand After Mexico
RACE RESULTS: Viva Mexico 250 at Mexico City
Using an average of rankings between Racing America On SI’s Toby Christie, Joseph Srigley, and Zach Evans, here’s where all 36 full-time NASCAR Cup Series drivers stand heading into this weekend’s race at Pocono Raceway.
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1. Christopher Bell
Christopher Bell was no match for Shane Van Gisbergen, but a second-place finish isn’t all that bad for the COTA winner. Hopefully, this returns the No. 20 team to race-winning form. (Previously: 5th)
2. William Byron
He battled back from a 27th-place starting spot to finish respectibly in ninth. The regular-season point lead continues to grow for William Byron with 10 races left until the Playoffs begin. (Previously: 2nd)
3. Chase Elliott
Now, THIS is what we’ve expected out of Chase Elliott. A very good, all around performance, capped off with a podium finish. Top-15s are not the standard, his third-place run in Mexico City is now the bar going forward. (Previously: 8th)
4. Denny Hamlin
Denny Hamlin didn’t compete in Sunday’s Viva Mexico 250, staying home to tend to his fiancée and their newborn son. Ryan Truex drove the No. 11 and finished 23rd. (Previously: 1st)
5. Ross Chastain
After a couple of good weeks on the NASCAR Cup Series circuit, Ross Chastain put together a so-so result on Sunday, fading late to 16th. After having top-10 speed and qualifying in third, the No. 1 team is still showing signs of major speed. (Previously: 3rd)
6. Chris Buescher
Chris Buescher continues to build momentum with his second consecutive top-10 finish. However, Buescher, a skilled road racer, had to be disappointed with a 10th-place result in Mexico City. (Previously: 6th)
7. Ryan Blaney
Ryan Blaney bounced back from disappointment at Michigan with a 14th-place finish at Mexico City. He picked up plenty of stage points with a second-place finish in Stage One and a fourth-place in Stage Two. (Previously: 7)
8. Kyle Larson
It’s been hit or miss for Kyle Larson lately. Sunday, at Mexico City, he was hit by Kyle Busch, which resulted in a miss in the form of a 36th-place finish. Larson now has two top-10s and two finishes of 36th-or-worse in his last four starts. (Previously: 4th)
9. Chase Briscoe
A seventh-place finish is mighty impressive for Chase Briscoe, considering his involvement in the Lap 6 accident with Kyle Busch put him one lap off the pace. No pole position this weekend, but a solid run nonetheless. (Previously: 16th)
10. Tyler Reddick
With three of his eight career wins on road courses, Tyler Reddick was a driver to watch entering the weekend in Mexico City. However, he qualified 22nd and finished 20th, a quiet day. (Previously: 10th)
11. Bubba Wallace
Bubba Wallace has never been shy about discussing his struggles on road courses, so you know he was plenty happy with a 12th-place finish on Sunday. He even picked up stage points in the first stage, making a solid all-around day for Wallace. (Previously: 12th)
12. Ryan Preece
Another solid run for Ryan Preece, who won a Stage, and came home with a 15th-place result at the 2.42-mile road course in Mexico City of all places. (Previously: 17th)
13. Joey Logano
Joey Logano finished 22nd on Sunday, an improvement on his 24th-place result in the first road course event of the season at Circuit of The Americas. He also had a meeting of the fenders with Austin Dillon in the final stage of the race. (Previously: 11th)
14. Erik Jones
He came home in 17th, but overall, Erik Jones had a much better run in Sunday’s Viva Mexico 250. Although he didn’t get the top-15 he deserved, he had another solid effort in a 17th-place finish. (Previously: 13th)
15. Michael McDowell
Michael McDowell earned his first top-five finish of the season with a fifth-place result on Sunday. There have certainly been other opportunities for McDowell to have a run like this, but all the pieces came together in Mexico City. (Previously: 28th)
16. Shane van Gisbergen
He may have been “leaking out of both ends” but Shane Van Gisbergen curbstomped the NASCAR Cup Series field on Sunday, winning by more than 16 and a half seconds. The No. 88 is now going to be in the Playoffs. (Previously: 23rd)
17. AJ Allmendinger
It was a surprisingly quiet but solid 13th-place finish for A.J. Allmendinger. He was another driver tagged during the early multi-car incident, but had a fast car and recovered nicely. (Previously: 19th)
18. Austin Cindric
Austin Cindric was one of just two drivers who stayed out on slicks during the rain showers to start Sunday’s race. It didn’t quite work out as hoped, but Cindric did spend some time near the front of the field and even led a lap before finishing 18th. (Previously: 21st)
19. Josh Berry
Like at Circuit of The Americas, Josh Berry finished 26th at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez. Most of the conversation surrounding Berry after the race involved his viewpoint of the conversation between Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., and Carson Hocevar. Not the worst thing to leave the race watching the beef instead of partaking in it. (Previously: 15th)
20. Alex Bowman
Alex Bowman finally stopped the bleeding with a fourth-place run, and in doing so, he put in one of the gutsiest performances of the 2025 season as he was in obvious pain following last week’s insanely hard crash at Michigan International Speedway. (Previously: 25th)
21. Kyle Busch
Kyle Busch went bowling for cars on Lap 7 of Sunday’s race. The end result? A last-place finish, which dramatically drops the driver of the No. 8 in our weekly power rankings. (Previously: 9th)
22. Ty Gibbs
Ty Gibbs looked like the one person who could challenge Shane Van Gisbergen on Sunday, but a poor strategy and the burning of his rear tires prevented him from taking the fight to the eventual race-winner, or even score a top-10. (Previously: 26th)
23. Carson Hocevar
The good news: Carson Hocevar picked up stage points in both stages. The bad news: He finished 34th, one lap down. The worst news: Relations with Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. went from bad to worse after a collision in the stadium section of the circuit on Sunday. (Previously: 14th)
24. John Hunter Nemechek
Nemechek had one of his better runs of the season on Sunday as he collected a sixth-place finish at Mexico City. It’s been a quiet, yet decent year for the LEGACY MOTOR CLUB driver. (Previously: 29th)
25. Brad Keselowski
A rough 25th-place outing for Brad Keselowski, but the driver of the No. 6 RFK Racing Ford isn’t expected to turn many heads on a road course. This weekend at Pocono will be very important for Keselowski’s hopes to win his way into the Playoffs. (Previously: 22nd)
26. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
While hopes of making the Playoffs have slipped away for Ricky Stenhouse and the HYAK Motorsports team, the Olive Branch, Mississippi-native might get some stress relief when he finds Carson Hocevar back in North Carolina. A run-in with Hocevar certainly didn’t help the frustration of a rough afternoon. (Previously: 18th)
27. Daniel Suarez
It’s not the result he was hoping for in front of his home crowd, finishing 19th, but Daniel Suarez managed to score an Xfinity Series victory the day before, so not all was lost during this historically monumental weekend for the Mexican driver. (Previously: 24th)
28. Zane Smith
After some incredible momentum lately, Zane Smith saw his day end early when Kyle Busch went bowling into Turn 1 in the wet weather conditions, collecting the No. 38 and several others. After riding around, another issue sent Smith to the garage before the race’s end, dropping him way down the standings. (Previously: 20th)
29. Todd Gilliland
Todd Gilliland had some speed this weekend in Mexico City, but things didn’t materialize for the No. 34 Ford Mustang, between strategy and an in-race incident or two that cost the team some major track position. A 22nd-place run isn’t terrible, but it doesn’t live up to the potential for Gilliland. (Previously: 31st)
30. Cole Custer
NASCAR Xfinity Series champion Cole Custer put together his best run of the season for Haas Factory Team, spending most of the afternoon inside the top-10, and at times in the top-five, before coming home in eighth. Travel woes be damned, Mexico was a breath of fresh air for the No. 41 team. (Previously: 35th)
31. Austin Dillon
There was a portion of Sunday’s race, where Austin Dillon worked his way inside of the top-10, and it looked like a surprise good finish was incoming. However, it all shook out with a 28th-place finish south of the border. (Previously: 27th)
32. Justin Haley
Justin Haley recovered from being collected in a multi-car incident on lap eight for a 24th-place finish. It wasn’t the kind of result that leaps off the page, but it was an important one to run around what had been a challenging start to the summer for the No. 7 team. (Previously: 33rd)
33. Ty Dillon
Ty Dillon was poised for a great result in Mexico, running in the top 10 throughout the day. However, he finished 33rd, one lap down, after suffering a flat tire following contact on the final restart of the race. (Previously: 30th)
34. Noah Gragson
One of quite a few drivers to feel ill in Mexico City this weekend, Noah Gragson had a pretty tough weekend between his race day sickness, a crash in practice that sent him to a backup car, and some incidents in-race that left him outside the top-30 when the checkered flag was displayed. (Previously: 32nd)
35. Riley Herbst
Riley Herbst had a particularly scary moment at one point, spinning in the stadium section of the course and nearly pulling in front of Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. Herbst finished 29th, which has to sting after an eighth-place finish in stage two. (Previously: 34th)
36. Cody Ware
Road courses are where Ware is expected to be able to gain on the some of the drivers on this list. It just simply didn’t happen in Mexico City as Ware walked out of the Viva Mexico 250 with a 31st-place finish. (Previously: 36th)
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The SCCA Foundation is embarking on an initiative in an effort to guarantee that future generations will be able to enjoy the thrill of amateur motorsports. That’s why Bob Crawford, chairman of SCCA’s Board of Directors (BoD), announced the appointment of Clay Turner as the new SCCA Foundation Executive Director. He and Foundation Chairman Jeff Jacobs are now charged with driving the non-profit’s bold mission of making opportunities in amateur motorsports accessible to all, now and for generations to come.
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NASCAR’s tragic ties to aviation crashes stretch back decades before Greg Biffle’s death
Aviation crashes have taken the lives of some of NASCAR’s most notable drivers, including Alan Kulwicki and Davey Allison.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR icon Greg Biffle was killed in a plane crash at the Statesville Regional Airport on Thursday, along with his wife, two children, and three others.
Biffle was a 19-time NASCAR Cup Series race winner and was the first driver to win a championship in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series (2002) and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (2000).
NASCAR drivers spend their careers racing at speeds sometimes in excess of 200 mph, pushing their cars to the limit in dangerous conditions. The sport has dramatically increased safety standards in recent years, with zero deaths in NASCAR’s top three series since Dale Earnhardt Sr.’s death in 2001, but the risks still remain.
In a sport highlighted by breakneck speeds and death-defying crashes, aviation crashes away from the race track have seemed all too common over the years.
Biffle’s death is the latest plane crash to shake the NASCAR community, but it is far from the first.
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Hendrick Motorsports disaster (2004)
Ten people connected to Hendrick Motorsports were killed in a Virginia plane crash on Oct. 24, 2004. The plane was headed for Martinsville Speedway when it crashed into a mountain due to foggy conditions.
Four of team-owner Rick Hendrick’s family members were killed in the crash, including his son Ricky Hendrick, brother John Hendrick, and nieces Kimberly and Jennifer. Engine-builder Randy Dorton, team executive Jeff Turner, DuPont executive Joe Jackson, pilots Elizabeth Morrison and Richard Tracey, and Scott Latham, one of Tony Stewart’s pilots, also died in the crash.
Alan Kulwicki (1993)
1992 NASCAR Cup Series champion Alan Kulwicki died when his plane lost power on April 1, 1993, in Tennessee while headed to Bristol Motor Speedway.
Kulwicki, along with Hooters executives Mark Brooks and Dan Duncan, and the pilot Charles Campbell, died in the crash.
Kulwicki won five NASCAR Cup Series races and captured the 1992 title as an owner-driver in an epic underdog story.
Kulwicki was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2019.
Davey Allison (1993)
Just three months after Kulwicki’s death, Davey Allison died in a helicopter crash on July 12, 1993, near Talladega Superspeedway.
Allison was attempting to land the helicopter when it crashed. Red Farmer, a NASCAR Hall of Fame member, was also on board but survived the crash.
Allison narrowly lost the 1992 championship and was one of the sport’s brightest young drivers at the time of his death. He was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2019.
Curtis Turner (1970)
Curtis Turner, one of NASCAR’s earliest stars, was killed in a crash on Oct. 4, 1970, in Pennsylvania. Turner was piloting the small plane when it crashed shortly after takeoff. Golfer Clarence King was also killed in the crash.
Turner competed in the first NASCAR Cup Series race in 1949, which was held in Charlotte. He raced until the late 1960s, winning 17 races in the series.
Turner and Bruton Smith teamed up to build Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1959.
He was scheduled for a one-off race in the National 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, which happened days after his death.
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Mike Stefanik (2019)
NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour legend Mike Stefanik died in a Connecticut plane crash on Sept. 15, 2019.
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Ted Christopher (2017)
Another modified icon lost their life in a plane crash. Ted Christopher died in a New York crash on Sept. 16, 2017.
Christopher was headed for a race at Riverhead Raceway when the plane he was in suffered fuel starvation, causing it to crash. Christopher and the plane’s pilot were killed in the crash.
Christopher won the 2008 Modified Tour championship and 42 races in the series.
Richie Panch (1985)
Richie Panch and three others died on Sept. 1, 1985, when their plane came apart mid-air during a heavy storm system in Fairfield County, South Carolina.
Panch made 47 NASCAR Cup Series starts, scoring 11 top 10s. He finished 14th in the 1974 season, his only full-time year. Panch was the son of 17-time Cup Series race winner Marvin Panch, who won the 1961 Daytona 500.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. (2019)
Dale Earnhardt Jr., his wife Amy, and their daughter Isla survived after their private plane crashed near the Elizabeth Municipal Airport in Tennessee on Aug. 15, 2019.
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The plane went through a chain-link fence before coming to rest on the edge of Tennessee Highway 91. Unable to escape through an emergency exit door above the wing, Earnhardt and his family managed to get out through the main cabin door as the plane caught fire, according to witness statements.
Earnhardt won 26 NASCAR Cup Series races and was a two-time NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series champion. He won the NASCAR Most Popular Driver Award 15 times in the Cup Series, one shy of the all-time record. Earnhardt is the son of the late Dale Earnhardt Sr., one of NASCAR’s greatest drivers. Earnhardt Jr.
Jack Roush (2002, 2010)
The primary owner of Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing, Jack Roush, survived two plane crashes.
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Rick Hendrick (2011)
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Hendrick runs Hendrick Motorsports, the most successful team in NASCAR’s history. The team has won 15 Cup Series championships and 320 races, both of which are records.
Bill Elliott (1987)
A year before winning the NASCAR Cup Series championship, Bill Elliott nearly lost his life during a demonstration flight in a Georgia Air National Guard fighter.
Elliott was in an F-16 fighter jet after filming a promotional video for the Georgia National Guard. The jet collided with an F-15 fighter jet. The plane Elliott was on landed safely while heavily damaged. The pilot of the other plane safely ejected.
Elliott won the 1988 NASCAR Cup Series title, 44 races, and a record 16 Most Poular Driver awards.
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The motorsports world is mourning the tragic death of retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family on Thursday.
Biffle and three members of his family died on Thursday in a plane crash while the business jet they were flying in attempted to land in Statesville, North Carolina. Seven people died in the plane crash, including Biffle, his wife Cristina and his son and daughter. The three others on board were Dennis Dutton, his son Jack and Craig Wadsworth.
The families of the seven people killed released a statement on Thursday afternoon regarding the tragic plane crash:
We are devastated by the loss of our loved ones. This tragedy has left all of our families heartbroken beyond words.
Greg and Cristina were devoted parents and active philanthropists whose lives were centered around their young son Ryder and Greg’s daughter Emma (mother – Nicole Lunders).
Emma was a wonderful human being with a kind soul who was loved by many people. Ryder was an active, curious and infinitely joyful child.
Dennis Dutton and his son Jack were deeply loved as well, and their loss is felt by all who knew them.
Craig Wadsworth was beloved by many in the NASCAR community and will be missed by those who knew him.
Each of them meant everything to us, and their absence leaves an immeasurable void in our lives.
We ask for privacy, compassion and understanding as we grieve and begin to process this unimaginable loss. We are grateful for the kindness and support that has been extended to our families during this incredibly difficult time.
At this moment, our focus is on honoring their lives and supporting one another.
NASCAR also released its own statement regarding the death of Biffle and his family.
As the shocking news reverberated throughout the motorsports world, NASCAR drivers took to social media to mourn Biffle, his family and the others on board the tragic plane crash.
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