youngest nascar driver to win a championship
Gordon was barely 24 when he was crowned while Elliott is about to turn 25. 70 years 3 months 10 days.
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On a day where IndyCars young guns shined bright it was 22-year-old Pato O.
. 12 hours agoChase Elliott ended a 26-race win drought on Monday but three NASCAR Cup Series champions are still seeking their first victories in more than a year. The current Drivers Champion is Kyle Larson who won his first NASCAR Cup Series championship in 2021. The 18-year-old rookie is the youngest driver to win a title in any of NASCARs three national series.
He finished in 22 nd. Chase Elliott has won his first-career NASCAR Cup Series championship. Rexford participated in just 36 NASCAR races over five seasons but he merits a high place on this list due to winning a championship at such a young age.
Rexford only won a single race in 1950 a 100-mile race on dirt at Canfield Ohio but was also one of only two drivers to. At 24 Elliott becomes the youngest driver to win the championship since Jeff Gordon 24 in 1995. Winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Championship is difficult for a young driver to the point where NASCAR has dedicated an article to the handful of drivers who have managed to do it before they turn 30.
Bill Rexford did it at 23 in 1950. The Elliotts joined Lee and Richard Petty and Ned and Dale Jarrett as just the third father-son combination to win a NASCAR Cup title. John Force wins NHRA Four-Wide Nationals.
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2022 NASCAR CUP SERIES DRIVERS Name No. The first driver to win multiple Championships was Herb Thomas in 1951 and 1953. He broke the mark set by Brian Vickers who was 20 when he won the Nationwide title in 2003.
Easily the youngest of them is Bill Rexford who won the championship way back in 1950 at 23 years 7 months 15 days old. The NASCAR points system has undergone several incarnations since its initial implementation. In the Cup era its Jeff Gordon who was 24 years old in 1995 when he was crowned Cup champion.
Hes known as one of 10 drivers to have won the Indianapolis 500 race at least three times with victories in 1974 1976 and 1980. The race had been postponed after 78 laps due to rain on Sunday and resumed at Noon. Chase Elliott won the Duramax Drydene 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover on Monday 24 hours after it began.
Johnny Rutherford III also known as Lone Star JR hails from Coffeyville Ks. Who was the youngest driver to win a Nascar Cup Series race. Harrison Burton holds the record of youngest driver to win NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Martinsville Speedway.
In one of the youngest podiums in the sports history the average age of the top three finishers was 227 years old. Justin Haley became the third-youngest Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series winner with his triumph in a rain-shortened 2019 Coke Zero. Jeff Gordon became the youngest ever modern NASCAR champion at 24 years old in 1995.
Elliott 24 3rd-youngest to win NASCAR Cup title. 97 rows The Drivers Championship was first awarded in 1949 to Red Byron. OWard races to his first.
It was on June 28 2009 at New. Bill Elliott won the 1988 championship and 16 times was voted by. In Mondays rain-postponed NASCAR Cup.
After 58 career starts in the Sprint Cup Series plus a win in the sports biggest racethe 2011 Daytona 500its about time that Trevor Bayne finally has. Elliott who turns 25 later this month has followed his fathers footsteps. Rutherford III is a retired NASCAR driver.
Bios statistics race results videos news photo galleries car team shop gear date of birth rookie year. On February 18 2018 Mark Thompson became the oldest NASCAR driver at the age of 66 to compete in the Daytona 500. Make Team Almirola Aric 10 Aric Almirola Stewart-Haas Racing Bell Christopher 20 Christopher Bell Joe Gibbs Racing Bilicki Josh 77 Josh Bilicki Spire.
1 day agoAfter 10 previous attempts the 2020 NASCAR Cup champ finally earns his first win of 2022 Monday at Dover Editors note. Norm Benning January 16 1952 Present Oldest Age While Competing. In 1950 long before it was called Cup Bill Rexford won the season points title at the age of 23 in the second year of NASCARs Grand National series.
Joey Logano at 19 years 35 days old became the youngest driver to win a Nascar Cup Series race.
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