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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 ...
Harry Gant is the oldest winner of a Cup Series race; he was 52 years, 7 months, and 6 days old when he won the 1992 Champion Spark Plug 400. [14] [15] Prior to 1972, Daytona qualifying races were points-paying championship races, and count in the totals below. Since then, the Daytona qualifying races do not count due to the race distance ...
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 ...
2012: Brad Keselowski wins the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship, his first Cup title, and giving Dodge a going away gift. Jeff Gordon won the race beating Clint Bowyer who both fought the week before at Phoenix after crashing on fuel mileage, his first win at Homestead-Miami Speedway, leaving only Kentucky Speedway as the only track ...
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 Ford EcoBoost 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on November 18, 2012 at Homestead Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida.Contested over 267 laps, it was the thirty-sixth in the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, as well as the final race in the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, which ends the season.
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.