NASCAR Cup points updated after Austin Cindric COTA penalty

Austin Cindric‘s COTA penalty from NASCAR has led to a big change in the Cup points standings. NASCAR took 50 driver points away from Cindric, meaning he has dropped from 11th place to 34th. The updated Cup points standings are below.

During the COTA race, Cindric hooked Ty Dillon. Along with losing 50 driver points, Cindric was fined $50,000. The good news is that NASCAR didn’t suspend Cindric, but he has a lot of work to do to move up in the standings.

Updated NASCAR Cup points standings

Rank DriverPoints Leader1William Byron11602Ryan Blaney 114-23Tyler Reddick111-54Christopher Bell 95-215Chase Elliott 95-216Bubba Wallace94-227Alex Bowman 87-298Michael McDowell 85-319Kyle Busch 81-3510Ricky Stenhouse Jr.80-3611Chris Buescher 77-3912Joey Logano 77-3913John Hunter Nemechek 76-4014Carson Hocevar 72-4415Kyle Larson71-4516Denny Hamlin67-4917Shane van Gisbergen 63-5318Todd Gilliland 63-5319Ross Chastain 62-5420Riley Herbst 60-5621Erik Jones56-6022Justin Haley52-6423Ty Dillon48-6824AJ Allmendinger 43-7325Brad Keselowski43-7326Noah Gragson42-7227Austin Dillon 41-7528Daniel Suarez 38-7829Ryan Preece38-7830Zane Smith35-81

After the penalty was announced, NASCAR’s managing director of racing communications, Mike Forde, explained why Austin Cindric was not suspended. The reason we landed on a points and fine – we take every situation, every violation as its own unique incident, and I know probably fans don’t love hearing that sentence, and it’s said a lot,” Forde said on the Hauler Talk podcast. “But it’s said because it has to be said. It’s said because it’s true. Sure, we do look at past instances to help inform us, educate ourselves on how we should handle each subsequent one.

“But each incident is very different. Maybe not very different, but each is at least a little bit different and often times very different. In this case, we did feel it was significantly different than the previous two.”

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