Ends another long drought at michigan again when he earns his first. Petty, earnhardt, gordon, johnson nascar has a host of legendary drivers from. Twotime defending winner of nascars most popular driver award. Earnhardt is a 14time winner of nascars most popular driver award. Id like to thank the track for their investment to make this happen. The nascar whelen modified tour nwmt previously the nascar winston modified tour and nascar featherlite modified series from 1985 until 2005 is a stock car racing series owned and operated by nascar in the modified division. Wins 10th consecutive most popular driver award, streak ties him with elliott. Son of twotime daytona 500 champ and hall of fame driver bill elliott. Earnhardt has won nascars most popular driver award a record 14 times.
Nascar most popular driver voting begins online fans. Banknorth 250 fan site the early years vintage oval. Nascar s most popular driver award is awarded to the most popular nascar driver in the. The nascar cup series was formerly known as strictly stock 1949, grand national 19501970, winston cup grand national 19711985, winston cup 19862003, nextel cup 20042007, sprint cup 20082016 and the monster energy nascar cup series 20172019. After rolling out fulltime in 2008, the car of tomorrow stuck around through the 2012 season. The 10week playoff format will return, with the top 10, based on. Both justin allgaier and ross chastain captured their first career most popular driver awards on wednesday in nashville.
Bristol motor speedway is the third largest sports venue in america and the seventh largest in the world, housing up to 162,000 people. Cup series most popular driver award jayskis nascar. Harvick was locked in on his race car and kept his answers short. Number one nascar driver ricky bobby stays atop the heap thanks to a pact with his best friend and teammate, cal naughton, jr. He won the most popular driver award on thursday night for the 15th. Cup series most popular driver award jayskis nascar silly. Voting under way to determine nascars most popular driver. My guess would probably be someone like robert richardson, jr. Chase elliott lands fulltime nationwide ride national. As far as full time drivers are concerned, id have to say its probably aric almirola. It was going to take the upset of all upsets for dale earnhardt jr. After missing half of the 2016 premier series season due to concussionlike symptoms, earnhardt. Former nascar driver chad little this week was awarded the prestigious washington state university alumni association alumni achievement award.
Justin allgaier has been named the nascar xfinity series most popular driver for the first time. Nascar home tracks the official website of nascars. Nascar race results, schedule, standings, news, drivers. Chase elliott wins 2019 most popular driver nascar. Entertainment arcade games arts books calendar comics movies. Faithful fans of junior nation saying they remembered to vote in the nascar sprint most popular driver award.
Get the latest nascar news, rumors, video highlights, scores, schedules, standings, photos, images, player information and more from sporting news. Earnhardt wins 10th most popular driver award sports. Aug 27, 2012 the spots direct kids to a website where they enter a sweepstakes that will award someone a ride to school with roush fenway racing driver carl edwards. Has won the most popular driver award three consecutive times in the indycar series 20012003. The nascar most popular driver award dates back to 1956, making it one of the oldest and most traditional awards in nascar racing. Nascar official home race results, schedule, standings. Voting for the nmpa sprint most popular driver award is now open and will continue until 11. Though, she has won the award four times in her professional racing career 3 in indycar and 1 in nascar. Other jrm winners of the xfinity series most popular driver award.
Hall award, which was created in 2012 to honor the contributions of. Michigan native and longtime nascar reporter matt yocum, who will be covering the firekeepers casino 400 this weekend for fox sports, joined stateside to tell the story of a man simply known as benny. Voting for 2012 nmpa nascar most popular driver award to. A look at all the most popular driver award winners for the monster energy nascar cup series. Ganassi racing kyle larson was a 19yearold sprint car driver of. Nascar most popular driver voting now open hendrick.
In 2005, the georgia state legislature declared october 8 as bill elliott day in the state of georgia. The ninth celebration of nascar day, on may 18, 2012, encouraged fans to join the nascar foundations initiative in the pin it forward campaign. Keselowski became the first dodge driver to win the championship since. Im pretty sure my fans will wear this award as a badge of honor, racer dale earnhardt jr. Photo galleries results standings weekend schedule drivers driver stats buy tickets camping info fantasy live. The track is so short that speeds here are far lower than is typical on most nascar oval tracks, but they are very fast compared to other short tracks due to the high banking. The winner will be announced at the seasonending awards banquet following the seasons last race at homesteadmiami speedway in november. Won the cup series most popular driver award for the last two years 2018, 2019 won the cup series rookieoftheyear award in 2016. Nascar issued a bulletin tuesday containing various updates to the rule book. Justin allgaier wins most popular driver award in xfinity series. Could jimmie johnson score most popular driver award in.
Most popular driver award winners nascar cup series mrn. Dale earnhardt jr nascar might not be able to return to. In what has become an annual occurrence, dale earnhardt jr. His father won 44 cup races, including two daytona 500s, and was a 16time winner of nascars most popular driver award. Sign up for the latest news and happenings from nascar s regional and local series. Nascars most popular driver award is awarded to the most popular nascar driver in the monster energy nascar cup series, xfinity series, and camping. Carl edwards 28 cup wins is the most wins of any driver currently. Another key challenger for elliott for most popular driver is twotime. Allgaier, 33, takes the mantle from former teammate elliott sadler, who had won the fanvoted honor for three consecutive years. Stephen steve arpin born december 16, 1983 is a canadian race car driver competing in the americas rallycross championship. The national motorsports press association nmpa announced, on. Voting for the 2012 national motorsports press association nmpa nascar most popular driver award will officially begin march 15. List of the drivers with nascar cup series wins, most 2nd place finishes.
The highest honor bestowed by the wsuaa, the award recognizes little for his outstanding contributions to worldwide motorsports and his dedication to community service. The most popular driver award presented by the national motorsports press association and sponsored by hooters is the only major nascar award to be determined solely by fan vote. She also won the legend award at the 2018 kids choice sports awards. After much speculation, earnhardt announced on may 10, 2007, that he would leave dale earnhardt inc. The modified division is nascar s oldest division, and is the only openwheeled division that nascar sanctions. To help fill the nascar void, we plan on taking you on a daily trip down memory lane spanning the years since the jayskis site inception. But did he have the credentials to really backup being the highest paid driver in the sports. Sprint nextel announced at the 2011 awards ceremony that they had. Nascar toy delivers an impact sportsbusiness daily. These photos taken in february 2020 show drivers in the starting lineup for sundays nascar daytona 500 auto race. Full of enthusiasm, passion and talent, blaney begins his ninth season with team penske in 2020 and his third season racing fulltime for the team in the nascar cup series ncs. Justin allgaier wins most popular driver award in xfinity. Bill elliott won the award a record 16 times 198488, 19912000 and 2002.
Most popular driver award archives nascar talk nbc sports. She now begins her fulltime stint in the nascar sprint cup series where she could easily rout dale earnhardt, jr. The 2012 nascar sprint cup series was the 64th season of nascar professional stock car. But when a french formula one driver, makes his way up the ladder, ricky bobbys talent and devotion are put to the test. Ranking the 20 greatest nascar drivers of all time fox sports. Allgaier continues jrm dominance of nascar xfinity series. The 2012 nascar toyota series was the sixth nascar series and the ninth organized by nascar mexico. He started with joe gibbs racing as a teenager, was pushed into the cup series prematurely when gibbs needed a replacement driver for tony stewart, and was snagged by penske when gibbs let logano. He withdrew his name from the ballot for that award after winning it in 2002. After a long wait, the 2015 national motorsports press association sprint most popular driver award.
His first season with arca was in 2009, finishing 7th in the championship standings and winning the arca remax series most popular driver award. Kevin harvick boldly comments on nascars most popular driver, he is the most popular driver. All four hendrick motorsports drivers are eligible and fans may vote once daily for their favorite driver. It began as a simple poll of the drivers and later grew to incorporate all nascar nextel cup competitors. March 25 today in jayskis nascar history page 6 of 24. Blake davidson, nascar vice president of licensing and consumer products, said its the first time in years that the sport has had a toy promoted on tv. Oddly, jeff gordon has never won the official award as nascars most popular driver. But thats mostly because his career has paralleled that of both dale earnhardt jr. Patricks strong fan base voted her the indycar series most popular driver from 2005 to 2010 and the nascar nationwide series most popular driver in 2012. Thirteentime nascar sprint cup series most popular driver dale earnhardt jr. The 2019 monster energy nascar cup series mencs season marks brad keselowskis 10th full season driving for roger penske.
Nascar drivers sound off on the search for star power december 1, 2018 12. Dale earnhardt sits with his son dale earnhardt jr. Chase elliott 201415, regan smith 20, danica patrick 2012 and keselowski 200809. This year, it will be the responsibility of the fans to choose a worthy candidate to succeed dale earnhardt jr. For the second straight season, chase elliott has won the nmpa most popular driver award which was presented to him in nashville, tennessee. While the most popular driver in the nascar cup series wont be announced until thursday, nascar on wednesday revealed winners of the most popular drivers voting in. Chad little receives wsu alumni achievement award wsu news. This years most popular driver award recipient will be announced during the monster energy nascar cup series awards ceremony in nashville, tennessee, thursday, dec. Sadler retired from fulltime nascar national series competition following the season finale at homesteadmiami speedway, ending a 23year tenure that saw him compete in 853 races across the monster energy nascar cup series, xfinity series and camping world truck series.
Elliott will try to become only the fifth multigenerational nascar champion. Best of nascar awards banquet nascar talk nbc sports. Nascar drivers give back to communities fox sports. Jud preece, senior associate director of the wsuaa, made the. Nascar live race coverage, latest news, race results, standings, schedules, and driver stats for cup, xfinity, gander outdoors nascar official home race results, schedule, standings, news. Click on the year to see detailed race results and standings.
With nascar on a temporary hiatus, news is going to be slow in the coming weeks. At 26yearsold, ryan blaney remains a key pillar of nascars youth movement and an important part of team penskes championshipwinning nascar program. Junior most popular driver for recordbreaking 11th. Aug 12, 2010 nascars most popular driver junior wins the award every year is 16th in points, four spots and 121 points out of the chase with only four races before the playoff field is set. After a bit of a delay to start the season, the nmpa nascar most popular driver award voting is officially open starting today at as was the case last year, the.
Others, like the 20 greatest nascar drivers of all time, are more clear. Won gander trucks most popular driver award in 2015. Elliott won nascar s most popular driver award a record 16 times 19841988, 19912000, 2002. He previously raced stock cars in the arca racing series, the nascar camping world truck series and nationwide series. Mar 12, 2019 nascars last cup series event at north wilkesboro was in 1996, and rockinghams last one was in 2004 although the truck series was there in 2012 and 20. Jan 11, 2017 nascar is a sport at a crossroads, still trying to find a solution to falling ratings and declining attendance. Bill elliott, the 1988 cup series champion and a 16time winner of nascars most popular driver award, helped make sure his son chase, now 19, had everything at his competitive disposal. The 40 drivers competing in the 2020 daytona 500, in order of starting position. Chex nascar most popular driver award cowley county fair racing history motorheads motorsports directory pops racing site pronyne motorsports racing museum race hippie retro rockets vintage supermodified archive sids vault of waterford speedbowl statistics t. Nascar clarified to teams that any driver entered in the xfinity or camping world truck series rookie of the year program is eligible for two additional tests at any track during the calendar year. Coming into the ford ecoboost 400, the mayetta, new jersey, native had a seriesleading seven victories, but none was more important than his win on sunday, which earned him the first monster energy nascar cup series championship of his career. Jun 10, 2016 in an unlikely underdog story, parsons went from a detroit taxi driver to a nascar champion before lung cancer claimed his life in 2007. Get to know the drivers competing in the 2020 daytona 500 wkmg. In a nascar sprint cup series season that contained many surprises, this wasnt one of them.
She was voted the favorite female athlete at the kids choice award in 2008, 2012 and 20. Justin allgaier, ross chastain named most popular driver. Voting opens for most popular driver award program mrn. Elliott sadler has been named the nascar xfinity series most popular driver for the third consecutive year. Banks violettes sculptures inspired by nascar and dale. Nmpa most popular driver award archives nascar talk. Ranking the most popular drivers of all time in nascars. Hes the only driver in the final four without a title, yet seemed most at ease following saturdays practice. As brad keselowski competes in his 11th season racing in the nascar cup series ncs for team penske in 2020, he continues to be one of the sports most productive drivers and establish new records for success within the team.