NASCAR Cup Series Standings: Joey Logano out of postseason spot after costly Texas wreck

Joey Logano dropped entirely out of a NASCAR Cup Series postseason qualification spot on Sunday, thanks to a rough afternoon at Texas.

The Team Penske star came into the day 15th in the NASCAR Cup Series points standings after an up and down start to the year, and got into an unusual wreck on pit road when he came across a stationary Cole Custer.

The impact ruined the left front of his No. 22 Ford, ending his race in bizarre fashion after 95 laps. With no top-ten stage finish, he left the weekend with a single point for 37th place on the day – meaning he falls behind Austin Cindric and Chase Briscoe and into 17th on points.

It wasn't just Logano having a bad day through, with three drivers who entered the weekend top ten in points heading back to the garage; namely Christopher Bell (38th, 1 point), Kyle Larson (34th, 3 points, running over 80 laps down at the chequered), and Ty Gibbs (36th, 8 points).

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Of course, when people fall in the standings, others must rise. Gibbs and Larson's fifth and sixth places in the standings now belong to Chris Buescher and Carson Hocevar, both of whom finished the race in the top seven.

At the very top, the gap to Tyler Reddick closed...but not by much. In fact, Denny Hamlin got exactly one point closer to the 23XI Racing star after both finished in the top five with a smattering of stage points apiece.

A word, too, for Alex Bowman and the No. 42 crew. Despite missing four straight races (more than 35% of the season to this point) with vertigo symptoms, as well as getting caught up in multiple wrecks, his second consecutive third-place finish on Sunday moved him off the bottom of the standings. His hopes of qualifying for the Chase are still astonishingly thin, but the climb has begun.

NASCAR Cup Series standings after Texas

Pos	Driver	Manufacturer	Points (Stage)	Wins	Top 5s	Top 10s
1	Tyler Reddick	Toyota	526 (87)	5	7	8
2	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	417 (91)	1	5	7
3	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	409 (61)	2	5	7
4	Ryan Blaney	Ford	371 (87)	1	3	7
5	Chris Buescher	Ford	345 (62)	0	2	6
6	Carson Hocevar	Chevrolet	333 (53)	1	3	5
7	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	330 (66)	1	5	7
8	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	318 (91)	0	3	6
9	Brad Keselowski	Ford	311 (50)	0	2	4
10	William Byron	Chevrolet	308 (57)	0	2	6
11	Bubba Wallace	Toyota	304 (71)	0	1	6
12	Ryan Preece	Ford	298 (43)	0	0	2
13	Christopher Bell	Toyota	291 (73)	0	3	4
14	Daniel Suárez	Chevrolet	271 (31)	0	1	3
15	Austin Cindric	Ford	248 (49)	0	1	3
16	Chase Briscoe	Toyota	242 (38)	0	3	4
17	Joey Logano	Ford	235 (54)	0	2	3
18	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	216 (22)	0	1	2
19	Shane van Gisbergen	Chevrolet	215 (24)	0	1	2
20	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	199 (19)	0	0	1
21	Zane Smith	Ford	198 (11)	0	1	3
22	Erik Jones	Toyota	196 (10)	0	0	2
23	Michael McDowell	Chevrolet	189 (19)	0	1	2
24	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Chevrolet	187 (19)	0	1	2
25	Todd Gilliland	Ford	186 (19)	0	0	1
26	Kyle Busch	Chevrolet	182 (16)	0	0	1
27	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	182 (8)	0	0	0
28	Riley Herbst	Toyota	173 (12)	0	0	1
29	John H. Nemechek	Toyota	157 (14)	0	0	0
30	Josh Berry	Ford	155 (30)	0	0	2
31	Noah Gragson	Ford	153 (4)	0	0	1
32	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	136 (0)	0	0	0
33	Connor Zilisch	Chevrolet	124 (2)	0	0	0
34	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	115 (11)	0	2	2
35	Cody Ware	Chevrolet	92 (4)	0	0	0
36	Cole Custer	Chevrolet	91 (3)	0	0	0
37	Casey Mears	Chevrolet	9 (3)	0	0	0
38	BJ McLeod	Chevrolet	3 (0)	0	0	0