Kyle Larson led a race-high 133 laps and won Sunday's South Point 400. He also won all the stages, giving him a perfect score of 60 points. That locked him into the Championship 4 and moved him from fourth to the points lead. He has a five-point advantage over William Byron, who finished sixth. Denny Hamlin remains in third after finishing ninth. Martin Truex Jr. had his first top 15 finish of the playoffs Sunday in eighth. He still fell two places to fourth, the last place in the Championship 4 on points.

Truex has a three-point lead over teammate Christopher Bell, who finished second. Tyler Reddick has sole possession of sixth after finishing seventh. Chris Buescher finished 10th, but dropped down to seventh. Ryan Blaney finished sixth on the road, but was disqualified (see above). That kept him in eighth but he is now 56 points behind Truex. He'll likely need to win to make the Championship 4.

Of those eliminated from the playoffs, Brad Keselowski expanded his advantage over Ross Chastain to 25 points after leading laps and finishing fourth. Kyle Busch moved up to 11th after a third-place finish. Bubba Wallace is 12th.

Joey Logano is still 13th, followed by Kevin Harvick. Michael McDowell jumped over Ricky Stenhouse Jr. for 15th.

Of those who failed to qualify for the playoffs, Chase Elliott continues to lead that group, but a restart violation on the final restart dropped him to a 31st-place finish. He still has a 51-point lead over Daniel Suarez, but this likely spells curtains on the No. 9 team making the owners' Championship 4 without a victory. Ty Gibbs lost a wheel Sunday and finished 33rd, dropping him to 19th and possibly costing him some crewmembers. Alex Bowman is 20th.
 

John Hunter Nemechek had another fluid leak that required him to come from the rear. No problem. He drove up to finish second and expanded his points lead to 26 points over Justin Allgaier. Allgaier moved up to second after finishing sixth. Austin Hill is down to third after finishing seventh, while Cole Custer is up to fourth after finishing third. He is the last driver in the Championship 4 on points.

Custer has a 15-point lead over Chandler Smith, who finished fourth and moved up to fifth. Sam Mayer is down two places to sixth despite finishing fifth. Sammy Smith finished 17th, but moved up to seventh, while Sheldon Creed is eighth.

Of those eliminated from the playoffs, Daniel Hemric continues to lead that group by 18 over Parker Kligerman. Josh Berry is 11th, while Jeb Burton is a distant 12th.

Riley Herbst, on the strength of his win Saturday, has an 83-point lead over Brandon Jones for 13th in points. Brett Moffitt is 15th, while Parker Retzlaff jumped over Kaz Grala to retake 16th.

Round of 8 Point Standings: 1) John Hunter Nemechek 3103, 2) Justin Allgaier -26, 3) Austin Hill -28, 4) Cole Custer -32, 5) Chandler Smith -47, 6) Sam Mayer -48, 7) Sammy Smith -67, 8) Sheldon Creed -73.

Round of 8 Owner Point Standings: 1) Joe Gibbs Racing No. 20 (John Hunter Nemechek) 3103, 2) JR Motorsports No. 7 (Justin Allgaier) -26, 3) Richard Childress Racing No. 21 (Austin Hill) -28, 4) Stewart-Haas Racing No. 00 (Cole Custer) -32, t-5) Kaulig Racing No. 16 (Chandler Smith) -49, t-5) JR Motorsports No. 1 (Sam Mayer) -49, 7) Kaulig Racing No. 10 (Daniel Hemric) -56, 8) Joe Gibbs Racing No. 18 (Sammy Smith) -67.

Eliminated Playoff Driver Standings: 9) Daniel Hemric 2144, 10) Parker Kligerman -18, 11) Josh Berry -53, 12) Jeb Burton -88.

Best of the Rest (13-22): 13) Riley Herbst 790, 14) Brandon Jones -83, 15) Brett Moffitt -158, 16) Parker Retzlaff -212, 17) Kaz Grala -224, 18) Ryan Sieg -228, 19) Jeremy Clements -310, 20) Kyle Sieg -383, 21) Anthony Alfredo -392, 22) Josh Williams -399.

Non-Playoff Point Standings (1-16): 1) John Hunter Nemechek 1191, 2) Austin Hill -52, 3) Justin Allgaier -57, 4) Cole Custer -132, 5) Josh Berry -306, 6) Sheldon Creed -318, 7) Sam Mayer -321, 8) Chandler Smith -323, 9) Daniel Hemric -336, 10) Parker Kligerman -369, 11) Riley Herbst -401, 12) Sammy Smith -414, 13) Brandon Jones -484, 14) Jeb Burton -524, 15) Brett Moffitt -559, 16) Parker Retzlaff -613.
 

Playoff Points: 1) John Hunter Nemechek 55, 2) Austin Hill -16, 3) Justin Allgaier -20, 4) Cole Custer -35, 5) Sam Mayer -36, 6) Chandler Smith -46, 7) Sheldon Creed -47, 8) Sammy Smith -49.

Stage Points: 1) Justin Allgaier 338, 2) John Hunter Nemechek -20, 3) Cole Custer -54, 4) Austin Hill -62, 5) Sheldon Creed -134, 6) Chandler Smith -148, 7) Josh Berry -170, t-8) Riley Herbst -182, t-8) Daniel Hemric -182, 10) Sam Mayer -187, 11) Sammy Smith -191, 12) Brandon Jones -213, 13) Parker Kligerman -234, 14) Ryan Truex -297, 15) Brett Moffitt -298, 16) Ryan Sieg -304.

Note: If they were eligible for points, Ty Gibbs would be 14th, AJ Allmendinger 15th and Kyle Larson 16th in stage points.

Old Point Standings (1-16): 1) John Hunter Nemechek 1012, 2) Austin Hill -16, 3) Justin Allgaier -81, 4) Cole Custer -97, 5) Josh Berry -164, 6) Sam Mayer -168, 7) Parker Kligerman -179, 8) Daniel Hemric -190, 9) Chandler Smith -203, 10) Sheldon Creed -207, 11) Jeb Burton -252, 12) Riley Herbst -255, 13) Sammy Smith -256, 14) Brett Moffitt -299, 15) Brandon Jones -306, 16) Parker Retzlaff -336.

WC Points (1-16): 1) John Hunter Nemechek 4458, 2) Austin Hill -85, 3) Justin Allgaier -272, 4) Cole Custer -348, 5) Josh Berry -574, 6) Sam Mayer -588, 7) Parker Kligerman -642, 8) Daniel Hemric -690, 9) Chandler Smith -725, 10) Sheldon Creed -759, 11) Riley Herbst -887, 12) Sammy Smith -905, 13) Jeb Burton -958, 14) Brett Moffitt -1084, 15) Brandon Jones -1086, 16) Parker Retzlaff -1192.

Race Winners: Austin Hill (Daytona-1, Las Vegas-1, Atlanta-1, Pocono), John Hunter Nemechek (Fontana, Martinsville. Atlanta-2, Loudon, Michigan, Kansas, Texas), Sammy Smith (Phoenix), AJ Allmendinger (Austin, Nashville), Chandler Smith (Richmond), Jeb Burton (Talladega), Ryan Truex (Dover), Kyle Larson (Darlington-1), Justin Allgaier (Charlotte, Daytona-2, Bristol), Cole Custer (Portland, Chicago), Aric Almirola (Sonoma), Sam Mayer (Road America, Watkins Glen, Charlotte-2), Ty Gibbs (Indianapolis), Denny Hamlin (Darlington-2), Riley Herbst (Las Vegas-2)

Phil Allaway is the Frontstretch newsletter manager. He can be reached at phil.allaway@frontstretch.com. Photo is courtesy of Nigel Kinrade Photography.

"What a job done by my team, too. Just a great race car. I almost gave it away there in one and two, getting sideways, hitting into the wall. Had to fight back there with our balance. They got it much closer there in the lead.

"Thanks to Chevrolet, HendrickCars.com, Valvoline, everybody involved in this deal. This is really cool to get to race in the championship in a few weeks. Glad we don't need to stress in the last two races." - Kyle Larson, race winner
 

"I don’t know what else I could have done, so I don’t know. I feel like that was my moment. That was my moment to make the Final Four. Didn’t quite capture it. I don’t know. Coming to the checkered there, I knew that he was going to be blocking, so I’m like, I’m going to try to go high. He went high. I don’t even know if I had a run to get by him there coming to the line. Just wasn’t enough. A great day, great day for sure to get the stage points, get a second-place finish out of it. I think I saw we’re minus two, so we’re not out of it by any means. It would have been nice to lock it in." - Christopher Bell, finished second
 

"It was a heck of a fight. We had speed early and come back to finish fifth." - Ross Chastain, finished fifth
 

"We definitely need to just work on our build and how we build loose, but our No. 24 Relay Payments Chevrolet was solid. The points are a lot tighter than we would want them to be, so we just have to have two good weeks, and hopefully go to Homestead (Miami Speedway) and have a little bit better long run speed. But overall, happy with our execution. We kind of made the most out of what we had. I think at the beginning of the race, we were hovering around sixth to eighth, and we were able to finish there. Wish we could have gotten a little more stage points, but we’ll take it." - William Byron, finished sixth

"We missed it a little bit on the handling, unfortunately. We were really loose and it kind of boxed us in unfortunately. To get an eighth out of it, that was probably a better finish than we had on pace, so to get that finish is good for us. You look at it – yeah, we lost ground on the cutline, but how our car drove today, it should have been a lot worse than it was. We got something out of it and kind of minimized the bleeding." - Tyler Reddick, finished seventh
 

"It was just trying to figure out how to minimize the damage and hope that we could get a longer run. We did at the end, which was really helpful. I don’t know what we had going on. Restarting up front, we were pretty good, and then on the long runs, really good – I thought – probably a third-place car, but once we got back there – 16th, 18th whatever it was – it was just really bad on the restart. I would lose three, four, five spots every time and then once we got strung out and got going, I would pick them off and work our way forward, but then we would get another caution and I would lose a couple more. It was an uphill battle, but luckily at the end, we were able to have a couple of better restarts and at least maintain, and then work our way forward from there. All-in-all, it was okay. The pit call obviously killed us in stage two." - Martin Truex Jr., finished eighth

"We got shuffled back a little bit in some dirty air and it was a struggle back there for a little bit. We got back going and needed some longer runs and green flag cycles to sort it out and we didn’t get it that way. We were able to make some decent work out of it and get a pretty decent finish out of the day." - Chris Buescher, finished 10th

"I don’t really know one way or another for sure. We were really tight before that, so I want to say it was a slow leak on the tire or something two laps prior to that. And then all of a sudden, it swung a little loose, and when I entered the corner, I didn’t even have a chance to save it. I hate that for everybody at Hendrick Motorsports and the whole No. 48 Ally team. We had a really fast Chevrolet Camaro and our teammates have been really fast, as well." - Alex Bowman, finished 35th (Crashed out)