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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]
Before the final ten races, 16 drivers, chosen primarily on race wins, are reset to an equal number of points, with bonus points awarded to a driver for each win prior to the reset. [4] With these changes, the last Drivers' Champion to clinch before the final race was Matt Kenseth in 2003 .
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 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.
For the 2014 season, NASCAR made the decision to mirror the points structure of the Owner's Championships. Under this system, the highest finishing driver for each manufacturer earns the same number of points the representing team earned during the race, including bonus points for wins and laps led.
Three-time race winner Jeff Gordon leads the field to the start of the 2015 Daytona 500. The Daytona 500 is an annual American stock car race sanctioned by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) and held every February at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Overall, Australian Marcos Ambrose is the most successful foreign-born driver, in terms of wins, in NASCAR history, having won 7 times overall (2x in Cup, 5x in Xfinity). With his 1st cup win on June 12, 2022, Daniel Suárez became the first foreign-born driver to win on all 3 of NASCAR's national series, and the 35th driver in NASCAR's history ...
3-time Cup Series drivers champion, 49 race wins, 187 top 5s, 308 top 10s, 15 poles, 2-time Brickyard 400 winner, 2009 All-Star Race winner, leads drivers in wins at Chicagoland Speedway (3) and Watkins Glen International (5), 1999 Rookie of the Year, 2-time Cup Champion as a co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing, second person to win a Cup ...