Top 10 nascar cup drivers of the 2010s includes a few surprises. April 7 today in jayskis nascar history jayskis nascar. Over his 31year career in the nascar cup series, yarborough raced in 560 races, and he won as many as 10 races in a season, which he pulled off twice. Apr 07, 2020 over the past 20 years bliss has racked up 725 starts across nascars three premier series. Over the past three years 108 races, johnson has posted a total of just nine top 5 finishesa mark that he used to hit by august in one seasonand he hasnt won since 2017. Nascar s 50 greatest drivers is an alphabetical list of nascar drivers. Drivers in bold have won a race in the 2020 season. The following is a list compiling the total number of career victories in nascar cup series competition. In 1998, as part of its 50th anniversary celebration, nascar gathered a panel to select the 50 greatest nascar drivers of all time. Nascar betting picks for the real heroes 400 at darlington. What makes a driver one of the greatest in nascar history. Aug 11, 2015 top 5 overtakes of the last 5 years formula 1. Born in 1940, gant enjoyed a stellar nascar career one marked by success into his 40s and 50s.
Championships come to mind, but that doesnt tell the whole story when there were only a handful of drivers running fulltime schedules in the early years. Over the last 10 years, labonte has scored 10 victories, while driving for joe gibbs racing. Nascars 50 greatest drivers is an alphabetical list of nascar drivers in 1998, as part of its 50th anniversary celebration, nascar gathered a panel to select the 50 greatest nascar drivers of all time. Looking at his average finishes, johnson has ended with 17. Feb 17, 2020 top 2020 daytona 500 predictions for monday.
In 118 starts from 2008, speed had one top five and four top 10 finishes. Overall, he finished in the top10 in the standings six times, including a careerbest second in 1950. Ranking the 20 greatest nascar drivers of all time fox. Feb 07, 2020 here are the five top moments from the first 60 years of the cocacola 600. Feb 14, 2020 if he comes up short, the racing vet can take solace in having accomplished a different first.
For the daytona 500 2020, the model is high on ryan blaney, who is going off at 161 in the updated nascar odds for monday. At age 34, he still has several prime years remaining. Bubba wallace to be first africanamerican driver at. Lets consider each year as a vote for mvp or, in this case, driver of the decade. An independent group of 51 individuals representing various. Predicting every 2020 nascar cup series race winner nascar. Driver, avg fin, races, wins, top 10, rating, laps led. Preseason top 30 fantasy nascar driverbydriver breakdown. Here we reveal our top 5 and name who we think is the. The following is a list of drivers who are currently competing in a series sanctioned by the.
Nascar hall of famer darrell waltrip photo by blaine ohigashigetty. Truex won at vegas last fall after starting 24th and has been the most dominant driver there over the past 10 races 418 points. May 5 today in jayskis nascar history jayskis nascar. Aug 17, 2018 nascar stars are retiring earlier than before. He was strong off and on throughout his racing career, finishing in the top 10 eight times. Nascar live race coverage, latest news, race results, standings, schedules, and driver stats for cup, xfinity, gander outdoors. Martin never captured a premier series championship but he raced in the top series for over 30 years and won five races at the age of 50. Busch is the 2015 and 2019 cup champion and has made the championship 4 in each of the past five years.
Wallace is set to become the first fulltime africanamerican driver to race in the nascar cup. An elite panel from s editorial team has pieced together a list of the top 10 touring car drivers in the world right now. Greatest nascar drivers the top ten greatest nascar drivers. Ranking the 20 greatest nascar drivers of all time fox sports. Stay tuned for the full list to be revealed over the week. It has been a decade of change in nascar but these drivers have been. Meanwhile, keselowski won in darlington in 2018 and has four top10 finishes three coming inside the top. This led to the elimination of shorter races 50 to 150 miles from the schedule. But 10 more years with those results behind the wheel, and mr. He is a good driver to remember in nascar s fantasy live for his good work on. Jun 21, 2018 while he barely makes the top10 list this week, he is perhaps the most consistent driver in recent years with four results of 11th through 16th in the last five races. After decades of titles being decided all over the map and autumn calendar, the annual nascar season finale at homesteadmiami. A ranking of the top 10 nascar cup series drivers by chris wilbers of the.
Obtaining 23 of 25 wins in just the last four years is remarkable and is a. He has amassed 189 top 10 finishes, and in 2010 was one of only two drivers to be running at the finish of every race, while failing to complete only seven of the 10,778 laps run during the year. Top 10 nascar cup drivers of the 2010s includes a few. Mfr, points, behind, starts, wins, top 5s, top 10s, dnfs, laps led. We also have a statistics and history of nascar car numbers. Dale earnhardts only daytona 500 win in 1998 came in this style monte. After racing formula one in 200607, speed made the transition to nascar. Menard was consistently mediocre last season, ranking in the top 14, but posted just two top 5s and five top 10s. The average age for a retiring nascar driver has plummeted over the past 15 years from about 38 to 33. For the five years it competed in nascar, it won the winston cup four times.
No other driver in the last seven seasons has made a splash in nascar with the flair of kyle busch. It was inspired in part by the nbas decision to select the 50 greatest players in nba history on its 50th anniversary in 1996. At just 35 years old, the sky is the limit for the younger busch brothers future wins. May 20, 2020 in 2005, the phenom from las vegas became nascars youngest cup series pole winner, at 19 years and 317 days. Another 10 years of nascar history are in the books.
That year, gant won five races overall, including three in a row, and finished fourth overall. Questioning a driver with 23 wins over the past four seasons seems. Monster energy nascar cup series 2017present rule changes in 1972 established a minimum distance of 250 miles 400 km for pointspaying cup series events reduced to 186. Alex weaver, jonathan merryman and kim coon break down the drivers landing 2521 on the 2020 driver draft board with the backseat drivers. Questioning a driver with 23 wins over the past four seasons seems absurd, but truex collected all of those with excrew chief cole pearn, who abruptly left. Click on a driver or track and you should be able to find your way around.
In his last four years with rcr 2010, harvick topped his total. Nascar official home race results, schedule, standings. Driver, debut, starts, wins, top 5s, top 10s, poles, best points finish, previous team. He earned 122 top10 finishes, 93 of them top fives.
List of alltime nascar cup series winners wikipedia. Our database contains nascar statistics and race results for nascar car numbers, nascar tracks and different nascar track types. Now, theres a new nascar driver on top in this decade. Our database contains nascar driver averages at nascar tracks and track types. Over that same time period he has scored 101 top 10 finishes with 58 of them resulting in top fives. Fantasy nascar driver rankings for 2016 rotoexperts. Nascar s 50 greatest drivers is an alphabetical list of nascar drivers in 1998, as part of its 50th anniversary celebration, nascar gathered a panel to select the 50 greatest nascar drivers of all time. Hes also made the championship 4 in five of the six years of the elimination format. The 10 best nascar drivers of the decade the comeback. We continue our look back at the 2010s with the top 10 drivers of the.
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