The whole "championship" is kind of a giant crapshoot.
If you apply 9-6-4-3-2-1, then...
( 4 , 1 ) 74 - Chase Elliott
( 2 , 2 ) 74 - Ross Chastain
( 1 , 3 ) 66 - Joey Logano
( 7 , 4 ) 65 - Kyle Larson
( 3 , 5 ) 58 - Christopher Bell
( 5 , 6 ) 46 - Denny Hamlin
( 8 , 7 ) 43 - Ryan Blaney
( 6 , 8 ) 29 - William Byron
( 9 , 9 ) 24 - Chase Briscoe
( 10 , 10 ) 24 - Daniel Suárez
Chase Elliott should be the champion and should have locked up the season at Martinsville in Round 35/36.
This shows the stupidity of the current system.
I'm going to say that Denny Hamlin will win the championship, because he is a Backpfeifengesicht and hopefully if he wins, he'll shut up forever and go away. Look Dennis, get your Dub and then go away to the shadow realm and play with all the other soot devils, please?