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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
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]
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 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]
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.
Todd Bodine's best career Winston Cup finish. Mike Wallace's first top 5 finish in the Cup Series. Jimmy Means' last start in the Cup Series as an owner, with Gary Bradberry driving. Bradberry would finish 52 laps down in 30th. Harry Gant's last race in the Cup Series. He would sadly complete only 257 out of 328 laps finishing 33rd due to an ...
The 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 55th season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 32nd modern-era Cup Series season. The season began on February 8 at the Daytona International Speedway with the Budweiser Shootout and ended on November 16 at Homestead-Miami Speedway with the Ford 400 .