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Originally Posted by Mosbonian

Here are the Chase qualifiers...

RK DRIVER POINTS BEHIND MONEY WINS POLES TOP 5 TOP 10
1 Kyle Busch 2012 --- $4,622,372 4 1 13 16
Kevin Harvick 2012 --- $4,290,837 4 0 7 13
3 Jeff Gordon 2009 -3 $4,075,102 3 1 10 14
4 Matt Kenseth 2006 -6 $4,300,302 2 1 7 14
5 Jimmie Johnson 2003 -9 $4,282,327 1 0 11 17
Carl Edwards 2003 -9 $6,143,447 1 2 12 17
Kurt Busch 2003 -9 $4,262,401 1 3 7 14
Ryan Newman 2003 -9 $3,776,448 1 2 8 13
9 Tony Stewart 2000 -12 $3,824,050 0 0 3 11
Dale Earnhardt Jr. 2000 -12 $2,974,813 0 1 3 9
*** Chase for the Sprint Cup cut-off (excluding two wild cards) ***
Brad Keselowski 2000 -12 $3,560,648 3 1 6 10
Denny Hamlin 2000 -12 $3,830,893 1 0 4 10

The points reset to 2000 for the start of the Chase. Ten drivers will then be manually seeded with three bonus points for every race that they won during the first 26 races of the season.

NASCAR Bonus Points

Bonus points are awarded as follows:

Three bonus points are awarded to the driver that wins the race.

One bonus point is awarded to any driver that leads any lap. An additional bonus point is awarded to the driver that leads the most laps in each race.

http://nascar.about.com/od/standings/a/nascarpoints.htm