Jeff Gordon
---For WINSTON CUP titles, yes, Jeff Gordon is the youngest. Youngest NASCAR Champion was Bill Rexford, who won the championship of what would become Winston Cup (and now, Sprint Cup) in 1950, at the age of 23. He is also the only driver from the Northeast to win a title, and was the last Northerner to win a title until Alan Kulwicki won in 1992.
Jeff Gordon was the 2001 Winston Cup champion.
Dale Earnhardt Sr.
Jeff Gordon
Bobby Labonte won the Winston Cup Series championship in 2000 and Jeff Gordon was the 2001 champion.
Three- 1981, 1982 and 1985.
In 1989, Rusty Wallace won the Nascar Winston Cup championship.
In 2000, Bobby Labonte won the Nascar Winston Cup championship.
Winston Cup Series 1971
Terry Labonte won the 1996 Nascar Winston Cup Series championship.
Dale Earnhardt Sr. had 76 Nascar Winston Cup wins.
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.
It is now called the Nascar Sprint Cup Series.