from
https://www.espn.com/racing/standings
also good to read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_NASCAR_Cup_Series

2021 NASCAR Cup Series Standings

RK DRIVER POINTS WINS POLES TOP 5 TOP 10
1 Martin Truex 472 3 0 5 8
2 Alex Bowman 332 2 1 3 5
3 William Byron 473 1 0 5 11
4 Joey Logano 442 1 1 5 7
5 Kyle Larson 440 1 1 6 8
6 Ryan Blaney 438 1 0 2 6
7 Brad Keselowski 404 1 1 5 5
8 Kyle Busch 383 1 0 4 7
9 Christoph Bell 336 1 0 2 5
10 Mich McDowell 290 1 0 2 4

11 Denny Hamlin 574 0 1 9 10
12 Chase Elliott 432 0 0 5 7
13 Kevin Harvick 427 0 0 4 10
14 Austin Dillon 341 0 0 1 5
15 Chris Buescher 309 0 0 0 3
16 Tyler Reddick 298 0 0 1 6

*** NASCAR Cup Series playoffs cut-off ***
17 Mat DiBenedetto 281 0 0 2 3
18 Kurt Busch 268 0 0 1 2
19 Ricky Stenhouse 266 0 0 1 1
20 Ryan Newman 260 0 0 1 3
21 Bubba Wallace 249 0 0 0 0
22 Daniel Suarez 242 0 0 1 2
23 Ross Chastain 240 0 0 0 1
24 Ryan Preece 228 0 0 0 2
25 Cole Custer 219 0 0 0 2
26 Erik Jones 203 0 0 0 2
27 Chase Briscoe 200 0 0 0 0

28 Aric Almirola 169 0 0 0 1
29 Anthony Alfredo 134 0 0 0 0
30 Corey LaJoie 127 0 0 0 1
31 Quin Houff 69 0 0 0 0
32 Josh Bilicki 54 0 0 0 0
33 James Davison 53 0 0 0 0
34 Kaz Grala 40 0 0 0 1
35 Jamie McMurray 30 0 0 0 1
36 Scott Heckert 9 0 0 0 0
37 Mike Marlar 6 0 0 0 0
38 Chris Windom 4 0 0 0 0
39 David Ragan 4 0 0 0 0
40 Shane Golobic 1 0 0 0 0
41 Derrike Cope 1 0 0 0 0