Kurt Busch 25th in Sprint Cup points - IndyCar, too - MotorSportsTalk

The folks on Reddit.com have quickly become big NASCAR fans, thanks to their support earlier this season of Josh Wise at Talladega Superspeedway.

As a result, we like to periodically check the different forums at Reddit to see what’s going on and what folks are talking about.

And what we found Wednesday definitely opened our eyes.

We all know that back in May, Kurt Busch became the first driver in a decade to do “the double” – racing in both the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 in the same day.

And we also know that the elder Busch brother is a full-time Sprint Cup driver.

But did you know – and thanks to the folks at Reddit.com for pointing this out – that Busch is TIED in the same place in the IndyCar driver standings with where he is on the Cup circuit?

After 19 races and heading into this weekend’s Brickyard 400 back again at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Busch is scored 25th in the Sprint Cup Series, 230 points behind leader Jeff Gordon. Busch has one win and just four top-10 finishes (all in the top-five, for the record). (To be fair, Busch is ranked 11th in the Chase-eligible standings.)

And in the IndyCar Series and based on his sixth-place finish at Indy, Busch is also 25th in the standings – even though he has competed in just the Indy 500 thus far (his only start in the first 14 races thus far, and what will likely be his only start this season).

Yep, that’s right. You can check it out, as they say, if you don’t believe us. (Some Reddit posters actually have Busch in 24th in the IndyCar standings, but we’re going with the official points rankings from both series as our baseline — and they both say he’s in 25th.)

What does all that mean in the whole big scheme of things?

Other than being a statistical quirk, probably not much.

But then again, if Busch can rank 25th in the IndyCar series and just have one start, it shows he’s doing better overall in IndyCar this season than Sprint Cup.

Check out the standings below to see the statistical quirk:

http://scores.nbcsports.msnbc.com/racing/index.asp?page=standings&cat=&series=NASCAR

http://scores.nbcsports.msnbc.com/racing/index.asp?page=standings&cat=&series=IRL

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DETROIT — Alex Palou topped the results of an NTT IndyCar Series race for the second time this season, extending his championship points lead with his victory in the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix.

The Chip Ganassi Racing driver, who also won the GMR Grand Prix (and the Indy 500 pole position) last month, holds a 51-point lead over teammate Marcus Ericsson (ninth at Detroit) through seven of 17 races this season.

Ganassi, which placed all four of its drivers in the top 10 at Detroit, has three of the top four in the championship standings with Scott Dixon ranked fourth after a fourth at Detroit.

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Indy 500 winner Josef Newgarden is third in the standings after taking a 10th at Detroit. Pato O’Ward slipped to fifth in the points after crashing and finishing 26th

Here are the IndyCar results and points standings after the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix:

RESULTS

Click here for the official box score from the 100-lap race on a nine-turn, 1.645-mile street course in downtown Detroit.

Here is the finishing order in the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix with starting position in parentheses, driver, engine, laps completed and reason out (if any):

1. (1) Alex Palou, Honda, 100, Running
2. (7) Will Power, Chevrolet, 100, Running
3. (9) Felix Rosenqvist, Chevrolet, 100, Running
4. (4) Scott Dixon, Honda, 100, Running
5. (13) Alexander Rossi, Chevrolet, 100, Running
6. (12) Kyle Kirkwood, Honda, 100, Running
7. (2) Scott McLaughlin, Chevrolet, 100, Running
8. (11) Marcus Armstrong, Honda, 100, Running
9. (6) Marcus Ericsson, Honda, 100, Running
10. (5) Josef Newgarden, Chevrolet, 100, Running
11. (24) Colton Herta, Honda, 100, Running
12. (17) Devlin DeFrancesco, Honda, 100, Running
13. (8) Simon Pagenaud, Honda, 100, Running
14. (20) Agustin Canapino, Chevrolet, 100, Running
15. (15) Conor Daly, Chevrolet, 100, Running
16. (18) Christian Lundgaard, Honda, 100, Running
17. (25) Jack Harvey, Honda, 100, Running
18. (14) Rinus VeeKay, Chevrolet, 100, Running
19. (23) Helio Castroneves, Honda, 100, Running
20. (19) Benjamin Pedersen, Chevrolet, 97, Running
21. (22) Santino Ferrucci, Chevrolet, 97, Running
22. (26) Sting Ray Robb, Honda, 97, Running
23. (21) David Malukas, Honda, 85, Contact
24. (3) Romain Grosjean, Honda, 80, Contact
25. (27) Graham Rahal, Honda, 50, Contact
26. (10) Pato O’Ward, Chevrolet, 41, Contact
27. (16) Callum Ilott, Chevrolet, 1, Contact

Winner’s average speed: 80.922 mph; Time of Race: 02:01:58.1171; Margin of victory: 1.1843 seconds; Cautions: 7 for 32 laps; Lead changes: 10 among seven drivers. Lap Leaders: Palou 1-28; Power 29-33; O’Ward 34; Palou 35-55; Power 56-64; Palou 65; Rossi 66; Newgarden 67-68; Kirkwood 69; Ericsson 70-76; Palou 77-100.

POINTS

Click here for the points tally in the race.

Here are the points standings after the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix:

Top 10 in points: Palou 273, Ericsson 222, Newgarden 203, Dixon 194, O’Ward 191, Rossi 176, McLaughlin 175, Power 172, Herta 149, Rosenqvist 148.

Rest of the standings: Grosjean 145, Kirkwood 142, Lundgaard 136, Ilott 116, VeeKay 108, Ferrucci 105, Armstrong 101, Rahal 99, Malukas 91, Daly 88, DeFrancesco 81, Castroneves 80, Harvey 78, Canapino 77, Pagenaud 72, Pedersen 61, Robb 55, Takuma Sato 37, Ed Carpenter 27, Ryan Hunter-Reay 20, Tony Kanaan 18, Marco Andretti 13, RC Enerson 5, Katherine Legge 5.

Next race: IndyCar will head to Road America for the Sonsio Grand Prix, which will take place June 18 with coverage starting at 1 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.

Kurt Busch 25th in Sprint Cup points — IndyCar, too

IndyCar results, points after Detroit Grand Prix