In 2003, Matt Kenseth won the last Nascar Winston Cup Series championship. The following season the series was known as the Nextel Cup. The name was again changed in 2008 to the Sprint Cup.
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.
In 2012, Brad Keselowski became the latest driver to win the Nascar Sprint Cup Series championship.
In 1971, Richard Petty won the first Nascar championship award named the "Winston Cup". Prior to this, the series was known as the Strictly Stock Series (1949) and then the Grand National Series (1950-1970).
Jeff Gordon was the 2001 Winston Cup champion.
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Bobby Allison won the 1983 NASCAR Winston Cup at 45 years of age.
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.
Jimmie Johnson won the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship, the first driver to win 4 consecutive NASCAR titles.
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.
Joe Gibbs Racing has won six Nascar driver/owner championships.2000 - Bobby Labonte (Winston Cup Series)2002 - Tony Stewart (Winston Cup Series)2005 - Tony Stewart (Nextel Cup Series)2009 - Kyle Busch (Nationwide Series)2008 and 2010 - (Nationwide Series owners 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.