After five weeks of straight racing, the Craftsman Truck Series is taking a couple of weeks off; in the meantime, the Cup and Xfinity Series drivers did a little road course racing at a newly paved Sonoma Raceway in the wine country of California.

Thirty-eight drivers took to the track in the Cup Series for the Save Mart 350.  The first two stages of the race looked more like a short track on a Saturday night.   Points leader Denny Hamlin made an early exit when his engine blew up on the second lap of the race. 

Kyle Larson earned his third win of the season and takes over the points lead.  Larson also leads all Cup Series drivers in stage wins with seven and 167 stage points

Having enough fuel was an issue again this week when Martin Truex Jr and Kyle Busch ran out on the last lap.  Truex was just short of the finish line to end the race in second when he ran out of fuel and crept across the finish line in 27th place – the last car on the lead lap.

Just 10 more races remain in the regular season.

Cup Series Point Standings:
Kyle Larson – 561
Chase Elliott – 547
Denny Hamlin – 535
Tyler Reddick – 512
Martin Truex Jr – 508
William Byron – 495
Brad Keselowski – 466
Ty Gibbs – 466
Christopher Bell – 453
Ross Chastain – 453
Alex Bowman – 445
Ryan Blaney – 444
Chris Buescher – 412
Bubba Wallace – 388
Kyle Busch – 380
Joey Logano – 372
Chase Briscoe – 361
Austin Cindric – 320
Daniel Suarez – 316
Michael McDowell – 295
Todd Gilliland – 289
Carson Hocevar – 279
Josh Berry – 269
Noah Gragson – 266
Erik Jones – 250
Ryan Preece – 239
Ricky Stenhouse Jr – 236
John Hunter Nemechek – 236
Daniel Hemric – 226
Corey LaJoie –  222
Austin Dillon – 211
Justin Haley – 209
Harrison Burton – 168
Zane Smith – 152
Kaz Grala – 136
Jimmie Johnson – 35
Derek Kraus – 32
David Ragan – 17
Cody Ware – 17
Kamui Kobayashi – 8
Will Brown – 6
Cam Water – 2

In the Xfinity Series, rookie driver Shane van Gisbergen is seeing tracks on the NASCAR circuit for the first time.  On the heels of his road course win in Portland, Oregon; van Gisbergen makes a repeat performance with a win at Sonoma…and the kicking of the rugby ball.  The New Zealand racer is now in the top 10 in the point standings.

Van Gisbergen’s stage one win broke up six straight stage wins by Justin Allgaier who leads the Series in stages with 10 and points with 165.

Cole Custer holds on to the points lead with 509.

Xfinity Series Point Standings:
Cole Custer – 509
Austin Hill – 497
Chandler Smith – 497
Justin Allgaier – 485
Jesse Love – 435
AJ Allmendinger – 409
Riley Herbst – 403
Sheldon Creed – 396
Parker Kligerman – 379
Shane van Gisbergen – 362
Sam Mayer – 339
Sammy Smith – 336
Ryan Sieg – 325
Brandon Jones – 306
Anthony Alfredo – 305
Parker Retzlaff – 271
Brennan Poole – 263
Josh William – 220
Jeremy Clements – 212
Leland Honeyman 203
Aric Almirola – 202
Kyle Weatherman – 195
Ryan Ellis – 182
Jeb Burton – 177
Kyle Sieg – 171
Blaine Perkins – 165
Hailie Deegan – 148
Josh Bilicki – 139
Matt DiBenedetto – 131
Garrett Smithley – 123
Carson Kvapil – 93
Dawson Cram – 91
Austin Green – 85
BJ McLeod – 69
Patrick Emerling – 64
JJ Yeley – 61
Ed Jones – 57
Joey Gase – 53
David Starr – 46
Sage Karam – 45
Nick Leitz – 41
Jordan Anderson – 40
Alex Labbe – 38
Brad Perez – 32
Bubba Pollard – 31
Logan Bearden – 31
Caesar Bacarella – 30
Natalie Decker – 27
Patrick Gallagher – 25
Myat Snider – 18
Dexter Bean – 17
Daniil Kvyat – 16
Nathan Byrd – 16
Andre Castro – 14
Preston Pardus – 13
Chad Finchum – 12
Frankie Muniz – 11
RC Enerson – 9
Boris Said – 9
CJ McLaughlin – 6
Thomas Annunziata – 3
Ryan Vargas – 2
Akinori Ogata – 1