2024 XFINITY SERIES STANDINGS

1 Cole Custer #00 761 2 Justin Allgaier #7 705 3 Austin Hill #21 674 4 Chandler Smith #81 661 5 Riley Herbst #98 618 6 AJ Allmendinger #16 609 7 Jesse Love #2 587 8 Sheldon Creed #18 576 9 Parker Kligerman #48 553 10 Ryan Sieg #39 510 11 Sammy Smith #8 507 12 Sam Mayer #1 502 13 Shane v Gisbergen #97 500 14 Brandon Jones #9 441 15 Anthony Alfredo #5 396 16 Brennan Poole #44 353 17 Parker Retzlaff #31 317 18 Josh Williams #11 309 19 Jeb Burton #22 286 20 Leland Honeyman #42 277 NEXT RACE: CABO WABO 250, Michigan International, 3:30 p.m. ET Saturday, Aug.

2024 CUP SERIES STANDINGS

1 Kyle Larson #5 749 2 Chase Elliott #9 739 3 Tyler Reddick #45 734 4 Denny Hamlin #11 706 5 Ryan Blaney #12 676 6 William Byron #24 654 7 Martin Truex Jr #19 653 8 Christopher Bell #20 651 9 Brad Keselowski #6 615 10 Alex Bowman #48 606 11 Ty Gibbs #54 587 12 Chris Buescher #17 562 13 Ross Chastain #1 552 14 Bubba Wallace #23 545 15 Joey Logano #22 525 16 Chase Briscoe #14 469 17 Daniel Suárez #99 460 18 Kyle Busch #8 440 19 Austin Cindric #2 438 20 Todd Gilliland #38 434 21 Michael McDowell #34 404 22 Josh Berry #4 388 23 Noah Gragson #10 383 24 Carson Hocevar #77 383 25 Ricky Stenhouse Jr #47 375 26 Ryan Preece #41 329 27 Erik Jones #43 329 28 Corey LaJoie #7 324 29 Justin Haley #51 319 30 Daniel Hemric #31 316 .

2024 CUP SERIES SCHEDULE

FEB. 3, 8 PM, FOX: Busch Light Clash at the (LA) Coliseum ( D. Hamlin) FEB. 15, 7 PM, FS1: Bluegreen Vacations Duel 1 at DAYTONA ( T. Reddick) FEB. 15, 9 PM, FS1: Bluegreen Vacations Duel 2 at DAYTONA ( C. Bell) FEB. 19, 4 PM, FOX: DAYTONA 500 ( W. Byron) FEB. 25, 3 PM FOX: Ambetter Health 400 at ATLANTA ( D. Suarez) MARCH 3, 3:30 PM, FOX: Pennzoil 400 at LAS VEGAS ( K. Larson) MARCH 10, 3:30 PM, FOX: Shriners Children’s 500 at PHOENIX ( C. Bell) MARCH 17, 3:30 PM, FOX: Food City 500 at BRISTOL ( D. Hamlin)

BRICKYARD WINNER QUOTE

“Pretty neat to get an opportunity to race here on the oval again. What a job by our team. I mean, never gave up at all. And to all the fans, I love it here. I think everything has come full circle with what was meant to be and today was meant to be for us.”

TRUCKS RECAP

• Friday’s TSPORT 200, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park WINNER: TY MAJESKI INDIANAPOLIS — Ty Majeski’s victory in Friday night’s TSport 200 at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park wasn’t the sort of dominating performance he enjoyed last year— until the final stage of the race. Majeski overcame a restart violation on Lap 50 that sent him to the rear of the field but rallied to defend his 2023 victory at the 0.686-mile short track.

XFINITY RECAP

• Saturday’s PENZOIL 250, Indianapolis Motor Speedway WINNER: RILEY HERBST SPEEDWAY, Ind. – In one of the most dramatic Xfinity Series finishes in recent memory at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Stewart-Haas Racing’s Riley Herbst took the lead in the final corner of the final lap to claim his first victory of the season in Saturday’s Pennzoil 250 – formally punching his ticket to the 2024 Playoffs.

Triple Spaced Again: Monitoring the invasion of private equity into healthcare

By Merilee Dannemann Healthcare companies should never have profit as their primary mission, don’t you think? There’s a genuine conflict between the profit motive and what healthcare is supposed to accomplish: providing a service that heals people’s illnesses or helps them stay healthy. For a healthcare institution to be successful, profit has to be tempered with giving priority to the wellbeing of patients.