Contenders and Pretenders - Spring Atlanta

Hello everyone! One of your three proud leaders of Nascar Amino, Tanor Campos, here and welcome to the second installment of Contenders and Pretenders! The 2025 Nascar Cup Series season got underway at Daytona International Speedway as William Byron became the 5th driver in history to win the Great American race for the second consecutive season! Today, Nascar will conclude the Superspeedway doubleheader at Atlanta Motor Speedway as the Cup Series drivers will try to punch their ticket into the postseason by winning the second race of the season so anyways let's get started with the second installment of Contenders and Pretenders in 2025!

Major Pretender

78 Bj McLeod - 2025 Nascar Cup Series Debut

51 Cody Ware

44 JJ Yeley - 2025 Nascar Cup Series Debut

35 Riley Herbst - Leader Of The ROTY Standings

42 John Hunter Nemechek - +14 Above The Cutoff

88 Shane Van Gisbergen

10 Ty Dillon - 11 Points Above The Cutoff

5 Kyle Larson

4 Noah Gragson

Slight Pretender

41 Cole Custer

3 Austin Dillon

19 Chase Briscoe - Docked 100 Championship Points

38 Zane Smith

01 Corey Lajoie

11 Denny Hamlin

21 Josh Berry

34 Todd Gilliland

45 Tyler Reddick - 24 Points Above The Cutoff

60 Ryan Preece

Possible Contender

47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr - +6 Above The Cutoff

77 Carson Hocevar

54 Ty Gibbs - 1 Point Above The Cutoff

71 Michael McDowell - 7 Points Above The Cutoff

43 Erik Jones - 20 Points Above The Cutoff

20 Christopher Bell

17 Chris Buescher - 20 Points Above The Cutoff

48 Alex Bowman - 22 Points Above The Cutoff

23 Bubba Wallace

7 Justin Haley

Major Contender

16 Aj Allmendinger

99 Daniel Suarez - 9 Points Above The Cutoff

24 William Byron - Back-To-Back Daytona 500 Champ

1 Ross Chastain

6 Brad Keselowski

9 Chase Elliott - 13 Points Above The Cutoff

2 Austin Cindric - Leader In Laps Led/+28 Above

8 Kyle Busch

22 Joey Logano - Won Stage 1/+1 Above The Cutoff

Race Winner

Ryan Blaney

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