Cale Yarbourough
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.
Cale Yarborough won his first of three in a row Sprint Car Championships in 1976. He is still the only driver to do that.
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.
Cale Yarborough
There are only 2 drivers who have this record- Cale Yarlborough for the years 1976-1978 and Jimmie Johnson for the years 2006-2008.
Richard Petty won the Nascar Grand National Series championship in 1967.
Cale Yarborough drove many makes and models from 1957-1988. He won the 1976 and 1977 Winston Cups with a Chevrolet and the 1978 Winston Cup with an Oldsmobile. Cale also drove other makes such as Mercury, Ford, Plymouth, Buick, Dodge and Pontiac during his career.
The Island Years - John Cale album - was created in 1996-07.
Cale Yarborough is a former NASCAR driver, not an author. He is known for his successful racing career in NASCAR, winning the Winston Cup Series three times in the 1970s.
Cale Yarborough won the Nascar Winston Cup Series championship in 1977.
Cale Yarborough won the Nascar Winston Cup Series championship in 1978.