Hello everyone! One of your three proud leaders of Nascar Amino, Tanor Campos, here and welcome to the fifth installment of Contenders and Pretenders! Christopher Bell continues his winning ways after capturing his 3rd straight win during the first short track race of the 2025 Nascar Cup Series season as the driver of the 20 JGR Toyota looks to become the first driver since Jimmie Johnson to win four in a row! Las Vegas Motor Speedway will conclude the trend of first-time races as 34 drivers will look to William Byron and Christopher Bell in the winners club by capturing the flag after 267 laps so anyways let's get started with the fifth installment of C&P on NA!
Major Pretender
51 Cody Ware - Scored His Best Finish Of The Year
10 Ty Dillon - First Top 20 Finish Since Daytona
34 Todd Gilliland - 3 Straight Finishes Inside Top 20
88 SVG - Leader Of The ROTY Standings
60 Ryan Preece - First Top 15 Finish Of The Year
21 Josh Berry - Scored His 1st Top 5 Of The Year
Slight Pretender
42 John Hunter Nemechek - +16 Above The Cutoff
35 Riley Herbst - Scored His Worst Finish Of The Year
16 Aj Allmendinger - First Top 25 Finish Since Atlanta
41 Cole Custer - 32nd or Worse In 2 Of The Last 3
47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr - +13 Above The Cutoff
38 Zane Smith - First Top 10 Finish Of The Year
7 Justin Haley - Scored His Worst Finish Of The Year
4 Noah Gragson - 26th Or Worse In 3 Of The Last 4
54 Ty Gibbs - First Top 25 Finish Of The Year
3 Austin Dillon - Scored His Best Finish Of The Year
Possible Contender
77 Carson Hocevar - Scored His Worst Finish Of 2025
43 Erik Jones - First Top 20 Finish Of The Year
71 Michael McDowell - Fastest Lap/13 Pts Above
19 Chase Briscoe - Scored His Worst Finish Of 2025
22 Joey Logano - Leader In Laps Led/27 Pts Above
99 Daniel Suarez - First Top 25 Finish Since Daytona
12 Ryan Blaney - 53 Points Above The Cutoff
6 Brad Keselowski - 33rd Or Worse In 2 Of The Last 3
11 Denny Hamlin - 27 Points Above The Cutoff
17 Chris Buescher - 26 Points Above The Cutoff
Major Contender
2 Austin Cindric - First Top 20 Finish Since Daytona
8 Kyle Busch - 27 Points Above The Cutoff
9 Chase Elliott - 41 Points Above The Cutoff
20 Christopher Bell - Winner Of The Last 3 Races
23 Bubba Wallace - 19 Points Above The Cutoff
48 Alex Bowman - 34 Points Above The Cutoff
1 Ross Chastain - 5 Points Above The Cutoff
5 Kyle Larson - 25 Points Above The Cutoff
45 Tyler Reddick - 60 Points Above The Cutoff
Race Winner
William Byron
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Comments (2)
Finally someone who isn’t Logano won this race, it seems like he’s won this every single year up to this point.
Age is starting to show on Joey Logano