With Matt Kenseth’s victory Sunday at Michigan International Speedway, the list of Sprint Cup Series race winners this year is holding steady at eleven – one fewer than in 2014 – with just three races remaining in the regular season. Kyle Busch has matched Jimmie Johnson with a series-leading four wins and is now eligible for the post-season Chase, sitting twenty-ninth in the point standings.

With a maximum of fourteen race winners now possible, the remaining spots in the sixteen-driver post-season field will be filled based on regular-season point standings … The five highest-placed non-winning drivers in the standings today are Jamie McMurray, Paul Menard, Ryan Newman, Jeff Gordon and Clint Bowyer – who leads Aric Almirola by twenty-three points for what would be the final spot on The Chase Grid.