NASCAR Cup Series Standings: Tyler Reddick's lead grows as Denny Hamlin begins challenge

The latest NASCAR Cup Series standings are in following Sunday's race at Las Vegas, and Tyler Reddick continues to lead the way.

Despite only finishing 13th on the day, his lead to second has actually grown – with 23XI team-mate Bubba Wallace replacing Ryan Blaney as his closest rival once again.

It was their team's co-owner who was the story of the day though, Denny Hamlin breaking a tie with Kevin Harvick for tenth on the all-time Cup Series wins list to vault up eight places to fourth in the standings.

Decent points afternoons for Kyle Larson and William Byron, who both came to Vegas with hopes of taking their first wins of the season, mean that Hendrick Motorsports now has three cars in the top eight.

There was one notable big faller, with Shane van Gisbergen taking front splitter damage on the very first lap of the race and struggling all day to finish dead last, dropping him 11 places in the standings from fifth to 16th, and level on points with Daniel Suarez and AJ Allmendinger below him.

Towards the bottom of the pecking order, it's been a very challenging start to the year for Connor Zilisch, who sits 35th and last of any driver to have started all five races this year.

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NASCAR Cup Series standings after Las Vegas

Here is how the full Cup Series points standings look after this weekend's racing action at Las Vegas.

**NASCAR Cup Series standings ahead of Darlington**
Pos	Driver	Manufacturer	Points (Stage)	Wins	Top 5s	Top 10s
1	Tyler Reddick	Toyota	255 (37)	3	3	4
2	Bubba Wallace	Toyota	194 (53)	0	0	4
3	Ryan Blaney	Ford	188 (46)	1	1	3
4	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	177 (31)	1	2	3
5	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	168 (30)	0	2	3
6	Christopher Bell	Toyota	164 (43)	0	3	3
7	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	157 (36)	0	1	3
8	William Byron	Chevrolet	157 (35)	0	1	2
9	Chris Buescher	Ford	146 (27)	0	0	2
10	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	140 (27)	0	3	3
11	Joey Logano	Ford	135 (31)	0	1	1
12	Brad Keselowski	Ford	127 (9)	0	1	2
13	Ryan Preece	Ford	125 (16)	0	0	1
14	Michael McDowell	Chevrolet	122 (19)	0	1	2
15	Carson Hocevar	Chevrolet	118 (27)	0	1	1
16	Shane van Gisbergen	Chevrolet	117 (16)	0	1	2
17	Daniel Suarez	Chevrolet	117 (23)	0	1	1
18	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	117 (15)	0	0	1
19	Zane Smith	Ford	108 (10)	0	0	2
20	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	94 (11)	0	1	1
21	John H Nemechek	Toyota	91 (14)	0	0	0
22	Kyle Busch	Chevrolet	90 (11)	0	0	0
23	Riley Herbst	Toyota	86 (6)	0	0	1
24	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	81 (8)	0	0	0
25	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	80 (0)	0	0	0
26	Chase Briscoe	Toyota	76 (8)	0	1	2
27	Erik Jones	Toyota	76 (0)	0	0	1
28	Noah Gragson	Ford	73 (1)	0	0	0
29	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Chevrolet	72 (4)	0	1	1
30	Austin Cindric	Ford	71 (30)	0	0	0
31	Todd Gilliland	Ford	68 (11)	0	0	0
32	Josh Berry	Ford	56 (5)	0	0	1
33	Cody Ware	Chevrolet	52 (0)	0	0	0
34	Cole Custer	Chevrolet	52 (3)	0	0	0
35	Connor Zilisch	Chevrolet	50 (2)	0	0	0
36	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	23 (7)	0	0	0
37	Casey Mears	Ford	9 (3)	0	0	0
38	BJ McLeod	Chevrolet	3 (0)	0	0	0