Most recent Cup Series wins by driver-owners

Brad Keselowski went winless in his debut season with Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing as a co-owner and driver, but the team made strides and did win with Chris Buescher in September at Bristol Motor Speedway. A select group of drivers have scored recent victories in equipment that they own, an accomplishment that has become more rare of late. 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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.