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Most recent Cup Series wins by driver-owners
By Staff report | Tuesday, July 20, 2021
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Entering the ranks of driver-owners in the NASCAR Cup Series brings its own set of challenges and rewards, as Brad Keselowski will soon find out in the next stage of his career in 2022. A select group of drivers have scored recent victories in equipment that they own, an accomplishment that has become more rare of late.
With Keselowski's next chapter about to begin, let's take a look back at the most recent successes from Cup Series driver-owners in the last 40 years. (Stats and research from Racing Insights, NASCAR reference material)
With Keselowski's next chapter about to begin, let's take a look back at the most recent successes from Cup Series driver-owners in the last 40 years. (Stats and research from Racing Insights, NASCAR reference material)
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DAVE MARCIS
Date: Feb. 21, 1982
Track: Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway
Notes: Marcis landed the last of his five Cup Series victories in a race shortened to 250 of a scheduled 400 laps because of rain. His previous four Cup wins were with owner Nord Krauskopf, all from 1975-76. But the common denominator in all five wins was the car number: 71.
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RICHARD PETTY
Date: Oct. 9, 1983
Track: Charlotte Motor Speedway
Notes: The 198th victory in Richard Petty's career arrived with controversy as the No. 43 team was stripped of the points earned at Charlotte and fined for engine and tire violations. The win stood. ... Petty had won plenty for the family-owned Petty Enterprises team leading up to his landmark victory, but wins No. 199 and 200 in the 1984 season came with Mike Curb listed as the car owner of record.
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LAKE SPEED
Date: March 27, 1988
Track: Darlington Raceway
Notes: Speed drove for several well-known owners -- Hall of Famers Bud Moore and Cale Yarborough among them -- but his lone Cup Series win came as a plucky underdog on his own at Darlington. Speed, a former karting champion, led 178 of 367 laps in his No. 83 Oldsmobile.
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ALAN KULWICKI
Date: June 14, 1992
Track: Pocono Raceway
Notes: Each of Kulwicki's five Cup Series victories came as a fiercely independent driver-owner. He led 58 of the 200 laps at Pocono, midway through his march to the 1992 championship.
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DARRELL WALTRIP
Date: Sept. 6, 1992
Track: Darlington Raceway
Notes: DW notched the 84th and final win of his Hall of Fame career in a rain-shortened Southern 500, marking his fifth and most recent win for the Darrell Waltrip Motorsports team he formed in 1991. ... Michael Waltrip won in the Xfinity Series race the day before, sealing a weekend sweep for the brothers at Darlington.
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GEOFF BODINE
Date: Aug. 11, 1996
Track: Watkins Glen International
Notes: Geoff Bodine won 18 Cup Series races in his career, with the last four coming after he took ownership of the No. 7 operation after Alan Kulwicki's death in a plane crash. The most recent of those wins had a special hometown feel, with the Watkins Glen road course just 35 miles from his Chemung, N.Y. hometown. ... No Cup Series driver has won with car No. 7 since Bodine's triumph at the Glen.
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RICKY RUDD
Date: Sept. 27, 1998
Track: Martinsville Speedway
Notes: Rudd Performance Motorsports was born in 1994, with the driver-owner notching six wins in his own No. 10 Ford. The last of those came at Martinsville, where he battled heat exhaustion that stemmed from a malfunctioning cooling system to stretch his streak of consecutive seasons with at least one win to 16.
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TONY STEWART
Date: June 26, 2016
Track: Sonoma Raceway
Notes: Stewart joined Gene Haas to form Stewart-Haas Racing in 2009. Smoke registered 16 wins under the co-owned SHR banner, the most recent of them coming with dramatic flair in a last-lap duel with Denny Hamlin at Sonoma. That 49th and final victory made him playoff-eligible for his last Cup Series season.
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