Dale Earnhardt Sr.
Jeff Gordon was the 2001 Winston Cup champion.
Jeff Gordon
Dale Earnhardt Sr. won the Nascar Winston Cup Series championship in 1986.
Three- 1981, 1982 and 1985.
In 2000, Bobby Labonte won the Nascar Winston Cup championship.
Denny Hamlin has yet to win the Sprint Cup (Winston Cup in older parlance) during his career.(as of March 2010)
The most recent NASCAR Sprint Cup (formerly Nextel Cup and Winston Cup) series champion was Tony Stewart, who tied Carl Edwards in the 2011 Chase For the Sprint Cup, and was awarded the championship based on number of wins compared to Carl Edwards. After the 2003 Winston Cup season the name was changed to Nextel Cup. The winner of the last Championship under the title Winston Cup was Matt Kenseth in the 2003 series.
Dale Earnhardt won the 1990 NASCAR Winston Cup, his fourth of seven championships.He finished the season with 4430 points, just edging out rival, Mark Martin by 26 points!
1992 Winston Cup Series champion, Alan Kulwicki, died on April 1, 1993. He was killed in an airplane crash near Blountville, Tennessee.
It is now called the Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
Yes, it was. The 1995 Winston Cup Series championship was the first for Jeff Gordon in Nascar.
2003 was the last year that Winston sponsored NASCAR with Matt Kenseth winning the last Winston Cup.