Who do you think will win the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series title?
Regular-season champion Martin Truex Jr. enters the playoffs as the favorite to lift the trophy in November. Truex, the 2017 champion, is looking for his first title with Joe Gibbs Racing and announced this summer that he would be returning to NASCAR and JGR for the 2024 season.
Truex beat teammate Denny Hamlin for the regular season title while William Byron scored the most wins of any driver during the regular season. 2021 champion Kyle Larson is also in the mix too, while Kyle Busch is looking to recapture the form he showed in the first half of the regular season.Martin Truex Jr., 2,036 points
Truex has the best average finish of any driver this season and also has the most top-10 finishes. He finished in the top 10 in 15 of the first 26 regular season races and had six straight top 10s before he finished 24th at Daytona.Byron leads all drivers with five wins so far this season and starts the playoffs tied with Truex for the No. 1 seed. Even if he doesn’t win the title, 2023 is Byron’s breakout season.
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