List includes 16 Hall of Famers, one active NASCAR Cup Series champion, and one IndyCar driver.
The only active NASCAR Cup driver on this list, Kyle Busch has 59 wins in 614 starts through the first eight races of the 2022 season for a career winning percentage of .096. Going into the 2022 season, he has a streak of at least one victory in 17 consecutive seasons. He won Cup championships in 2015 and 2019.
Joe Weatherly won 25 NASCAR Cup Series races in 229 starts between 1951 and 1964 for a winning percentage of .109. He was a two-time NASCAR Cup champion, winning the title in both 1962 and 1963. He was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2015.
The Intimidator won 76 races (eighth overall) in 676 tries (0.112) over a career that spanned 1975 to 2001. Earnhardt is one of three seven-time champions in the sport. His most dominant season came in 1987 when he won 11 of 29 races en route to his third championship. He was selected as part of the 2010 inaugural class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Four-time champion Jeff Gordon finished in the top three in the NASCAR Cup Series final standings a remarkable nine times in his 25-year career. He won 93 times (third overall) in 805 races (0.1155) and was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2019.
The 1983 NASCAR Cup champion and 2011 NASCAR Hall of Famer won 84 races (fifth all-time) in 718 starts (0.117) between 1961 and 1988. His most dominant stretch when it came to winning was in 1971 and 1972, when he won 20 of 73 races.
Bobby Isaac won 37 races in 309 career starts (0.1197). Isaac, who was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2016, won the 1970 NASCAR Cup championship. The only other time Isaac finished in the top 10 in the standings was in 1968, when he finished sixth. His career spanned 1961 to 1976.
Now a regular in the NTT IndyCar series, seven-time NASCAR Cup champion and future Hall of Famer Jimmie Johnson is No. 6 on the all-time Cup Series wins list in with 83 in 686 starts (0.120).
Johnson was a consistent winner in Cup, winning races in 16 of his 20 seasons in a Cup career that began in 2001. His best season was 2007 when he won 10 of 36 races en route to his second title. Johnson’s final winning percentage took a bit of a hit late in his career, as he was winless in his final 131 starts.
The 1960 NASCAR Cup Series champion, Rex White won 28 races in 233 starts (0.120) in a career that covered 1956 through 1964. From 1960-62, White won 21 races. He was also a team owner and was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2015.
Fonty Flock, brother of another member of this list (Tim Flock), won 19 races in 154 career starts for a winning percentage of 0.123 in the NASCAR Cup Series. He won eight races in 1951 on his way to finishing second in the championship to Herb Thomas. A one-time moonshine runner, Flock raced in the Cup Series from 1949 to 1957.
Lee Petty is more than just Richard Petty’s father. Lee Petty is a NASCAR Hall of Famer (Class of 2011) in his own right, winning 54 races (11th all-time) in 427 Cup Series starts (0.1265) in a career that spanned 1949-64. Lee Petty didn’t make his first Cup Series start until the age of 35. His last race came at the age of 50. He won the first Daytona 500 in 1959.
The only member of the top 10 not in the NASCAR Hall of Fame, Dick Hutcherson won 14 times in just 103 races in a four-year Cup Series career from 1964 through 1967 (.136). He finished second in the championship in 1965 (Ned Jarrett won it) and third in 1967. Hutcherson retired from racing in 1967 at the age of 35 and went on to become a successful chassis builder serving stock car racers in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Ned Jarrett was a two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion, winning the title in 1961 and 1965. He won 50 races (tied for 12th all-time with Junior Johnson) in 353 starts (.142) in a career that stretched from 1953 through 1966. Jarrett won 28 of his races in just two seasons, 1964-65. Also a longtime contributor to the sport as a broadcaster, Jarrett was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2011.
Cale Yarborough won 83 times (seventh all-time) in 560 stats in a 31-career from 1957 through 1988 (0.148). He was a three-time NASCAR Cup champion, winning the title three consecutive years from 1976-78. He won 28 of 90 starts during that three-year period. Yarborough was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame with the Class of 2012.
Fireball Roberts, whose career tragically ended just weeks after a fiery crash during the 1964 World 600 at Charlotte, won 33 races in 207 starts (0.159) in a NASCAR Cup career that began in 1950. Roberts won the 1962 Daytona 500. His career also included six wins in 10 starts in 1958. He was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2014.
One of NASCAR’s all-time great team owners was also one of the Cup Series’ top drivers in a career that lasted from 1953 though 1966. Johnson won 50 races (12th all-time) in 313 starts for a .1597 winning percentage. His best year on track was 1965, when he won 13 times in 36 starts. Johnson went into the NASCAR Hall of Fame with the inaugural Class of 2010 as a driver, crew chief and owner.
Fred Lorenzen, while never racing a full-season schedule in the NASCAR Cup Series, won 26 of 158 races (.165) in a career that went from 1956 through 1972. Lorenzen won the Daytona 500 in 1965 and was one of the series’ dominant drivers of 1963. That year, he won six times and finished in the top five in 21 of 29 starts. And despite starting just 29 of the 55 races held in ’63, Lorenzen finished third in the championship.
Injuries led him to retire at the age of just 37. Lorenzen was elected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2015.
The King is the No. 1 all-time winner in the NASCAR Cup Series with 200 wins, but he’s No. 4 on this list with his wins coming in 1,185 starts (.1688). The seven-time Cup champion and 2010 Hall of Famer put together two season that will never be matched, winning a combined 48 races in 94 starts (51% of his race starts) in 1967 and 1971. The only thing that kept Petty from No. 1 on this list was a streak of 241 winless starts to close out his career, which stretched all the way from 1958 through 1992.
David Pearson, who raced in the Cup Series from 1960 until 1989, is second on the all-time wins list in the NASCAR Cup Series with 105 in 574 starts for a career winning percentage of .183. The 2011 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee won the Cup championship in 1966, 1968 and 1969. His most dominant season may have been the 1973 campaign when he ran a limited schedule, but still won 11 of 18 races (0.611 winning percentage) for the Wood Brothers.
Tim Flock is one of just two racers in NASCAR history to win an average of one race every five times out. Flock won 39 races (20th all-time) in 187 starts for a winning percentage of .209 in a career that went from 1949-61. He was a Cup champion in 1952 and 1955 and enshrined in the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2014.
Herb Thomas, a 2013 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee, was NASCAR’s first two-time champion. He won the Cup championship in both 1951 and 1953 as part of an impressive four-year stretch from 1951-54 that saw Thomas win 39 races. His career lasted from 1949-62 and he finished with 48 victories (15th all-time) in 228 starts for an all-time best winning percentage of .211.
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