NASCAR Sprint Cup Standings 2015: Update after Duck Commander 500

Jimmie Johnson was the big winner in Texas Saturday as he picked up his second victory of the season. He also made a big move up the point standings.

Jimmie Johnson has had a good start to the 2015 season, not a great one.

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Saturday night, he made the argument for a great start to the season after he held Kevin Harvick off to pick up his second victory of the season.

Harvick continued to look like the best driver on the track, something he has done all season. Harvick finished second and gave Johnson a good run at the end, but ultimately his hard racing cost him as he grazed the wall.

That was enough to give Johnson room to pull away for his second victory of the season and a boost in the point standings.

Jimmie leapfrogged Joey Logano for second in the points standings and sits firmly behind Kevin Harvick for the points lead. Harvick has finished at least Top-10 in all seven races this season and has yet to show any signs of slowing down.

However, if there is anyone that can give Harvick a run for his money, it’s Johnson who is a six time Sprint Cup Champion and has finished first and second alongside Harvick 11 times. Johnson has one nine of those matchups.

With seven races in the books, here is the updated points standings after seven weeks.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Standings:



1	Kevin Harvick	306
2	Jimmie Johnson	216
3	Joey Logano	280
4	Brad Keselowski	246
5	Denny Hamlin	205
6	Martin Truex Jr.	266
7	Kasey Kahne	230
8	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	213
9	Aric Almirola	195
10	David Ragan	194
11	Jamie McMurray	193
12	Matt Kenseth	189
13	Jeff Gordon	186
14	Carl Edwards	182
15	Casey Mears	178
16	Paul Menard	177
Chase Cut-Off
17	Danica Patrick	176
18	Clint Bowyer	168
19	Greg Biffle	165
20	AJ Allmendinger	161
21	Kurt Busch	144
22	Austin Dillon	143
23	Trevor Bayne	138
24	Ryan Newman	137
25	David Gilliland	136
26	Kyle Larson	135
27	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	132
28	Cole Whitt	111
29	Sam Hornish Jr.	110
30	Justin Allgaier	109
31	Tony Stewart	107
32	Michael Annett	69
33	Alex Bowman	67
34	Josh Wise	58
35	Brian Vickers	32
36	Brett Moffitt	109
37	Michael McDowell	57
38	Jeb Burton	43
39	Matt DiBenedetto	34
40	Alex Kennedy	24
41	Bobby Labonte	20
42	Michael Waltrip	18
43	Reed Sorenson	12
44	Mike Wallace	8
45	Ron Hornaday Jr.	2

The big winners this week were Johnson, Jeff Gordon and Carl Edwards. Johnson’s win catapulted him to second. Gordon’s Top-10 finish pushed him to 13th and Carl Edwards had his first Top-10 of the season which was good for 14th in the chase standings.

Next week NASCAR heads to the short track of Bristol, where there is sure to be almost no separation on the track between drivers.

It will be a good chance for maybe some other drivers who excel at short tracks to put drivers like Johnson and Harvick to the test.

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