23XI suffer DOUBLE demotion blow after Pocono as Kyle Busch on playoff brink

The latest NASCAR Cup Series standings are in following Sunday's race at Pocono, and they do not make for comfortable reading for 23XI Racing.

The team co-owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin expanded their Cup Series roster to three full-time cars for 2025, but so far, neither Tyler Reddick, Bubba Wallace nor Riley Herbst have been able to take a victory.

This means that currently, Reddick and Wallace are relying on getting into the playoffs on points, but that effort wasn't helped at Pocono, with both drivers demoted in the standings after a disastrous race that saw them classified 36th and 32nd, respectively.

Reddick fell one spot in the points standings to seventh overall, whilst Wallace dropped two to 12th, but the playoff implications are huge. Reddick's healthy gap to the cut line in the playoff standings has been chopped at, now standing at 107 points, whilst Wallace is now almost on the bubble, just 29 points above Ryan Preece in 17th place.

Elsewhere, after another tricky outing for Kyle Busch that saw him hit with multiple in-race penalties and involved in another multi-car wreck, the Richard Childress Racing driver is on the brink of falling away from the playoff chase.

Despite being above the cut line just a couple of races ago, Busch's fortunes in recent weeks have seen him drop to 20th in the playoff standings, with 63 points to make up on Alex Bowman in 16th at present.

Chase Briscoe's win on Sunday locked up another playoff spot for this season, and with nine regular season races to go, just five spots remain up for grabs via points. This will, however, decrease further if we have more new winners over the remaining events.

With that said, let's take a look at the full Cup Series standings below, with the current playoff picture also included!

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