Monday’s fuel-mileage race at Chicagoland Speedway dramatically shook up the NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup point standings after just one race.
2011 NASCAR Point Standings: Kevin Harvick Has Sprint Cup Series Lead After Chicagoland Chase Opener
Race runner-up Kevin Harvick is the new Chase points leader after former No. 1 seed Kyle Busch ran out of fuel on the last lap and fell all the way to ninth in the standings.
Tony Stewart is second – seven points behind Harvick – and Carl Edwards is third.
Five-time defending champion Jimmie Johnson’s 11th-place finish puts him eighth in the standings. Johnson is 16 points behind Harvick.
Denny Hamlin took the biggest hit of the day. His 31st-place finish left him in last place – 41 points behind the leaders, which is basically a full race.
Here is the current top 12 for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Chase standings:
- Kevin Harvick
- Tony Stewart -7
- Carl Edwards -10
- Kurt Busch -11
- Dale Earnhardt Jr. -13
- Brad Keselowski -14
- Ryan Newman -14
- Jimmie Johnson -16
- Kyle Busch -19
- Matt Kenseth -24
- Jeff Gordon -25
- Denny Hamlin -41
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