Cale Yarborough won his first of three in a row Sprint Car Championships in 1976. He is still the only driver to do that.
Richard Petty won the Nascar Grand National Series championship in 1967.
In 1980, Dale Earnhardt Sr. won the Nascar Winston Cup Series 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.
Mike Skinner won the 1997 Winston Cup Series Rookie of the Year Award.
Richard Petty
Richard Petty
Benny Parsons
Richard Petty
Cale Yarbourough
Dale Earnhardt
Darrell Waltrip
Darrell Waltrip