April 26, 1981: Rookie Morgan Shepherd drives to an upset win in the Virginia 500 at Martinsville, giving the Pontiac nameplate its first NASCAR Winston Cup.
NASCAR driver Bill Elliott's first wife was Martha Elliott.
Dave Blaney.
When a driver qualifies in first position he wins "the pole".
I'm not sure, since this question can not be answered, since the first Nascar race featured multiple drivers. Red Byron was Nascar's first champion. Some people may say Lloyd Seay was the first Nascar driver, but he died two years earlier, before the birth of Nascar at Daytona.
Greg Biffle was the first driver to claim both championships. He won the 2000 Nascar Craftsman Truck Series and the 2002 Nascar Busch Series. The series sponsorship names have now changed.
Rusty Wallace won a career high 10 races in the 1993 Nascar Cup Season.
The first champion was Red Byron back in 1949.
Cale Yarborough.
The first female driver was Sara Christian, racing in the inaugural NASCAR race at Charlotte Speedway on June 19, 1949.
Jimmie Johnson won the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship, the first driver to win 4 consecutive NASCAR titles.
First to top $100,000 in a season.
Juan Pablo Montoya