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"NASCAR Cup Series Driver's and Manufacturer Champions". Racing-reference.info "Manufacturer Championships 1949 – 2009". Jayski.com. Archived from the original on July 7, 2014 "List of All-Time NASCAR Cup Series Winners". Jayski.com. Archived from the original on July 4, 2012
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]
Terry Labonte won the Winston Cup Series Championship for the second and final time in 1996 driving for Hendrick Motorsports. Various other racers won the series in the subsequent years prior to the decline of the series after turn of the century. [18] In 1997 Jeff Gordon became the second an last winner of the Winston Million. [19]
The 1979 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 31st season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 8th modern-era Cup series. It began on Sunday, January 14, and ended on Sunday, November 18. Richard Petty won his seventh and final Winston Cup championship, winning by 11 points over Darrell Waltrip.
This was the last career Winston Cup race that Dave Marcis led a lap. This was the last Cup race sponsored by a tobacco product. This was Mike Skinner's nearest-miss of his Cup Series career as he led with 2 laps to go in RCR's #31 Lowe's Chevrolet, only to finish 6th after losing the lead before the white flag waved. Skinner also finished 2nd ...
This was Harry Gant's last Winston Cup victory. He set a new record for oldest winner of a Winston Cup race at 52 years and 219 days. This was also Oldsmobile's last victory in NASCAR. The final caution came out on lap 97 for a turn 2 accident involving Jimmy Hensley, Rick Mast, Jeff McClure, and eliminating Derrike Cope.
The Winston Cup Series logo from 2000 to 2003. Between 1971 and 2003, NASCAR's premier series was sponsored by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company cigarette brand Winston, dubbing it the Winston Cup Series. The series was originally called the Winston Cup Grand National Series before "Grand National" was dropped in 1986. [7]
Labonte's consistency in the last 4 races of the season was better than Gordon's. Labonte won the title by 37 points. This would be the 3rd and final time in Bob Latford's Winston Cup points system that a driver winning 10 or more races in a season failed to win the championship due to lack of consistency.