NASCAR adjusts point system with Xfinity Fastest Lap for 2025 national series campaigns
Drivers in all three NASCAR national series will have an additional way to earn points in 2025.
NASCAR competition officials announced Monday that drivers who record the fastest lap in every points-paying race — the Xfinity Fastest Lap — will earn one additional bonus point in both the driver and owner standings.
In addition to earning a bonus point in each race, the driver in each national series who ends the season with the most fastest laps will receive a donation to the charity/community-related cause of their choosing.
The payouts are $30,000 for the Cup Series driver, $20,000 for Xfinity and $10,000 for the Craftsman Truck Series. Comcast also has the right to match these donations.
Further details:
Further details:
- All drivers in the race are eligible for the award, but only championship-points earning drivers in each respective series will earn a point in the driver standings in that series.
- If the fastest-lap winning driver is not eligible for championship points in the series, only the team will receive an owner point.
- If there is a tie for the fastest recorded lap in the race, the tie will be broken by finishing position.
- Drivers who have been disqualified from the race are not eligible for the fastest lap program.
- The Championship 4 drivers are still eligible for the Fastest Lap program in the championship race, but Championship 4 drivers will not be awarded a bonus point if they drive the fastest lap in the championship race.
In 2024, Kyle Larson ran the fastest lap in five races to lead the Cup Series. All came in the regular season, which in this format would have given him five total points (one for each instance) in the driver standings. Larson lost the Regular Season Championship by one point to Tyler Reddick last year.
Other drivers with multiple instances of recording the fastest lap during a race last season were Christopher Bell (3), Shane van Gisbergen (3), Denny Hamlin (3), Joey Logano (2) Brad Keselowski (2), Martin Truex Jr. (2) and Ty Gibbs (2).
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