With Denny Hamlin and Chase Briscoe locked into the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Championship 4, the hunt for the final two spots is a pressure-packed brawl. Hamlin’s podium at Las Vegas sealed his sixth straight Final 4 berth, a testament to his veteran guile. Briscoe, the ex-Stewart-Haas wildcard, shocked with a Talladega triumph and backed it with most top-5s this year, proving JGR’s No. 19 Toyota is no fluke in his rookie year with the team.

Now, Martinsville’s paperclip looms, where six drivers, Christopher Bell, Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney, Chase Elliott, William Byron, and Joey Logano, scrap for the last two seats. Bell and Larson cling to the cut line, but Blaney and Elliott, seventh and eighth, are the chaos agents, their Martinsville wins making them the ultimate spoilers. Hamlin’s not s

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