Jimmie Johnson is the only Nascar driver to win the Cup Series championship five times. Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr. won seven championships each.
Lee Petty was the first driver to win the Nascar championship three times. He won the 1954, 1958 and 1959 Grand National Series titles.
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Dale Sr. finished in the top ten in Nascar Cup Series championship points standings 20 times in his career.
Kevin Harvick has never won a Nascar Cup Series championship. He did win the 2001 and 2006 Busch Series championships (now known as the Nationwide Series).
Dale Jr. has never won a Nascar Cup Series championship.
Matt Kenseth won the Nascar Cup Series championship one time. It was in 2003. That was the last season under the Winston Cup name.
Richard Petty is nicknamed The King, is most well-known for winning the Nascar Championship seven times.
The current most popular Nascar driver is Dale Earnhardt Jr. Bill Elliott was voted the most popular driver 16 times, the most of any driver.
In 2011, Danica Patrick started 12 Nascar Nationwide Series races. She did not race in the Nascar Cup Series.
No driver won the Nascar championship four times in a row, when it was called the Winston Cup Series. Jimmie Johnson won the championship five consecutive years, from 2006-2010. In the first two it was known as the Nextel Cup, in the last three it was the Sprint Cup. Cale Yarborough won the most Winston Cup Series championships in a row, with three, from 1976-1978.
In his career, Jeff Gordon has started from the pole position 72 times in the Nascar Cup Series and 12 times in the Nationwide Series (formerly known as the Busch Series).
Bill Elliott, 16 times