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NASCAR race winners: Top 100 Cup drivers list after Ricky Stenhouse wins at Talladega

A look at the top 100 all-time NASCAR Cup Series winners list in order by number of wins updated through Oct. 6, 2024.


1. Richard Petty 200

Richard Petty, nicknamed "The King," is tied with Dale Earnhardt and Jimmie Johnson for most NASCAR Cup championships with seven. Petty won in 1964, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975 and 1979.


Petty has the NASCAR record for the most poles won (123), most wins in a season (27), most consecutive wins (10), most starts (1,185) and most Daytona 500 wins (7).


Petty retired in 1992. He still attends NASCAR races and is an ambassador for Legacy Motor Club, which has three Cup cars.


2. David Pearson 105

David Pearson won three NASCAR Cup titles - 1966, 1968 and 1969 - and won 18.3% of the races he entered.


Pearson won the Daytona 500 in 1976. He is also second all-time in poles won (113).


Pearson retired in 1986 and died in 2018 at age 83.


3. Jeff Gordon 93

Jeff Gordon won four NASCAR Cup titles - 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2001. He was 24 when he won his first title and was the youngest champion in the modern era.


Gordon won the Daytona 500 three times - 1997, 1999, 2005 - and won the Brickyard race at Indianapolis a record five times.


He worked as a Fox Sports NASCAR analyst from 2016-21 and since then has been vice chairman of Hendrick Motorsports.


4. Bobby Allison 84

Bobby Allison won the 1983 Cup Series championship and is a three-time winner of the Daytona 500 - 1978, 1982, 1988.


Allison's first Cup race was in 1961 and his last race was in 1988 after a crash at Pocono. He also had a significant crash at Talladega in 1987.


4. Darrell Waltrip 84

Darrell Waltrip won three NASCAR Cup titles - 1981, 1982 and 1985. He also won the 1989 Daytona 500.


Waltrip's first Cup race was in 1972 and he retired in 2000. Waltrip was the lead analyst for Cup races on FOX from 2001-19.


Jimmie Johnson 83


Cale Yarbrough 83


Dale Earnhardt 76


Kyle Busch 63


Kevin Harvick 60


Rusty Wallace 55


Denny Hamlin 54


Lee Petty 54


Ned Jarrett 50


Junior Johnson 50


Tony Stewart 49


Herb Thomas 48


Buck Baker 46


Bill Elliott 44


Mark Martin 40


Tim Flock 39


Matt Kenseth 39


Bobby Isaac 37


Brad Keselowski 36


Kurt Busch 34


Martin Truex Jr. 34


Joey Logano 34


Fireball Roberts 33


Dale Jarrett 32


Carl Edwards 28


Rex White 28


Kyle Larson 28


Dale Earnhardt Jr. 26


Fred Lorenzen 26


Jim Paschal 25


Joe Weatherly 25


Ricky Rudd 23


Terry Labonte 22


Jeff Burton 21


Bobby Labonte 21


Benny Parsons 21


Jack Smith 21


Speedy Thompson 20


Davey Allison 19


Buddy Baker 19


Greg Biffle 19


Chase Elliott 19


Fonty Flock 19


Geoff Bodine 18


Neil Bonnett 18


Harry Gant 18


Kasey Kahne 18


Ryan Newman 18


Marvin Panch 17


Curtis Turner 17


Ernie Irvan 15


Dick Hutcherson 14


LeeRoy Yarbrough 14


William Byron 13


Dick Rathmann 13


Tim Richmond 13


Ryan Blaney 12


Donnie Allison 10


Clint Bowyer 10


Sterling Marlin 10


Christopher Bell 9


Paul Goldsmith 9


Cotton Owens 9


Bob Wellborn 9


Alex Bowman 8


Kyle Petty 8


Tyler Reddick 7


Darel Dieringer 7


AJ Foyt 7


Jamie McMurray 7


Jim Reed 7


Marshall Teague 7


Chris Buescher 6


Austin Dillon 5


Ward Burton 5


Dan Gurney 5


Alan Kulwicki 5


Tiny Lund 5


Dave Marcis 5


Jeremy Mayfield 5


Ralph Moody 5


Ross Chastain 5


Lloyd Dane 4


Bob Flock 4


Charlie Glotzbach 4


Eddie Gray 4


Bobby Hamilton 4


Pete Hamilton 4


Parnelli Jones 4


Hershel McGriff 4


Joe Nemechek 4


Eddie Pagan 4


Ken Schrader 4


Morgan Shepherd 4


Nelson Stacy 4


Ricky Stenhouse 4


Billy Wade 4


Michael Waltrip 4


Glen Wood 4


This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: NASCAR Cup race most wins: Richard Petty, Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt

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