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The current NASCAR Cup Series trophy, the Bill France Cup. 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]
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. He won his first race in 1960 and his last in 1984, a span of 24 years. [6]
The NASCAR championship season consists of a series of races, held usually on oval tracks, and in a few cases, road courses. [4] Each season throughout NASCAR history has consisted of between 8 and 62 races. [5] The results of each race are combined to determine two championships in each of the top series, one for drivers and one for manufacturers.
A look at the top 100 all-time NASCAR Cup Series winners list in order by number of wins updated through Aug. 19, 2024. Richard Petty 200. David Pearson 105
The NASCAR Cup Series Drivers' Championship is awarded by the Chairman of NASCAR to the most successful Cup Series driver over a season, as determined by a points system based on race results and victories. First awarded in 1949 to Red Byron, [30] 32 different drivers have won the Championship.
He also holds a slew of NASCAR all-time records that many have deemed to be unbreakable, [2] including most career race wins (200), [1] most Daytona 500 victories (7), most race wins in a single season (27, set in 1967), [1] most consecutive race wins (10), most career top fives (55), most career top tens (712), most career poles (123), and ...
Busch has won seven owner's championships and a pair of driver championships with Erik Jones in 2015 and Christopher Bell in 2017. ... the series record for most career wins (100) and most wins in ...
He is only the third driver in NASCAR history to win at least 100 races in a single series. After his win in the 2023 Pala Casino 400, his first Cup Series win of that season, Busch broke a tie with Richard Petty for having the all-time most consecutive Cup Series seasons with a win. (He has won at least 1 Cup Series race each year since 2005.)