In 2003, Matt Kenseth won the last Winston Cup Series championship. The following season it was renamed the Nextel Cup Series.
In 2003, Matt Kenseth won the last Winston Cup Series championship. The following season it was renamed the Nextel Cup Series.
NASCAR has never had a Piston Cup in any of their series. They did have a Winston Cup and the last winner was Matt Kenseth.
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Jeff Gordon was the 2001 Winston Cup champion.
2003 was the last year that Winston sponsored NASCAR with Matt Kenseth winning the last Winston Cup.
In 2003, Bobby Labonte was the last Winston Cup race winner and Matt Kenseth won the Winston Cup championship.
Cale Yarborough The only NASCAR Winston Cup driver to win three consecutive championships (1976, '77 and '78), Cale Yarborough earned 83 NASCAR Winston Cup victories and 70 pole positions in a career that spanned four decades. His win total places him fifth on the all-time list, and his pole position total is the third-most in NASCAR Winston Cup history.
It is no longer known as the Winston Cup, it is known as the Sprint Cup Series now and the winner of the 2008 championship is Jimmie Johnson, Driver of the 48 Lowes Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports.
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In 2000, Bobby Labonte won the Nascar Winston Cup championship.
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.
Jeff Gordon won his last NASCAR Winston Cup in 2001.