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The NASCAR Cup Series Drivers' Championship is awarded by the chairman of NASCAR to the most successful NASCAR Cup Series racing car driver over a season, as determined by a points system based on race results. The Drivers' Championship was first awarded in 1949 to Red Byron. [1] The first driver to win multiple Championships was Herb Thomas in ...
Only points-paying championship races count towards the total. Richard Petty holds the record for the most NASCAR Cup Series wins in history with 200. David Pearson is second with 105 victories, and Jeff Gordon is third with 93 wins. [5] Petty also holds the record for the longest time between his first win and his last.
This list of 2012 motorsport champions is a list of national or international auto racing series with championships decided by the points or positions earned by a driver from multiple races where the season was completed during the 2012 calendar year.
The 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series was the 64th season of NASCAR professional stock car racing in the United States and the 41st modern-era Cup season. The season started on February 18, 2012, at Daytona International Speedway , with the Budweiser Shootout , followed by the Daytona 500 on February 27.
The following NASCAR national series were held in 2012: 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series – The top racing series in American NASCAR; 2012 NASCAR Nationwide Series – The second-highest racing series in American NASCAR; 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series – The third-highest racing series in American NASCAR; 2012 NASCAR Canadian Tire Series ...
List of NASCAR Whelen Euro Series champions; List of NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour champions; List of NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour champions; List of NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series national champions; List of NASCAR Mexico Series champions; List of NASCAR Mexico T4 Series champions; List of NASCAR Brasil Sprint Race champions ...
The 2012 Daytona 500 was the first of 36 scheduled stock car races of the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, [3] and the 54th edition of the event. [6] It was scheduled to be held on February 27, 2012, in Daytona Beach, Florida, at Daytona International Speedway, [3] a superspeedway that holds NASCAR races. [7]
The 2012 Bojangles' Southern 500 was the 63rd running of the event, and the eleventh stock car race of the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It was held on May 12, 2012, at the Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. The 368-lap race was won by Jimmie Johnson for the Hendrick Motorsports team.