Winston Cup Racing
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That makes 58 career Winston cup wins in 285 races. That's a 20.35 win percentage!
That's 1 win for every 4.91 races.


Jeff Gordon Winston Cup Career Highlights:
- The first rookie driver to exceed $750,000 in winnings.
- The first rookie ever selected as a member of McDonalds All-Star Race Team.
- The "American Driver of the Year" in 1995.
- The Youngest driver to ever win the Daytona 500.
- The youngest driver ever to win the Winston Cup championship.
- The youngest driver ever to win the Winston Cup championship twice.
- The youngest driver ever to win the Winston Cup championship three times.
- The record winnings for a single NASCAR event $613,000 for the Inaugural Brickyard 400.
- The record winnings for any motorsport event $1,637,625 for the Brickyard 400 + "No Bull 5" bonus.
- The record winnings for any motor sport event $2,194,246 for the 1999 Daytona 500.
- The only driver to win 3 straight southern 500s.
- The only driver to win 4 straight events by winning 4 straight southern 500s.
- The 1st driver under the age of 25yrs to win $2,000,000 in a season.
- The record for overall winnings in one season, $9,306,584.
- The second driver to win $20,000,000.
- The first driver to win two races at New Hampshire International Speedway.
- The first driver to win from the pole at New Hampshire International Speedway.
- The second man in history to win the Winston $1,000,000 bonus.
- The first winner of the "No Bull 5" $1,000,000 bonus.
- The first 2 time winner of the "No Bull 5" $1,000,000 bonus.
- The first 3 time winner of the Brickyard 400.
- The first rookie in 30 years to win the 125-mile qualifying race at Daytona.
- The first driver to sweep both road course Bud Poles in one season.
- The first driver to win at Watkins Glen and Sears Point in the same year.
- The fourth driver to win three straight road races.
- The first driver to win 10 or more races in back-to-back seasons since 1982.
- The first driver ever to win 10 or more races in 3 consecutive years.
- The first driver to win 4 races in a row since 1993.
- The only driver in the modern era with 17 consecutive top 5 finishes.
- The first driver since Richard Petty in 1975 to win 13 races in a season.
- The first driver ever to accumulate over 5000 points in a single season with 5328 in 1998.
- The only driver to win 5 consecutive road courses races.
- The only driver to win 6 consecutive road courses races.
- The only driver with 7 career road course wins.
- The only driver to win at Sears Point from the pole twice.
- The only driver to win the most races 4 years in a row.
- The only driver to win the most races 5 years in a row.
- The second driver to with 5 straight Coca Cola 600 poles (1994-1998).
- The third driver to win the MBNA 400 from the pole, the first in 21 years.
- In 1998 he finished in the top 5 in 19 of the last 20 events (17 were top threes).
- In 1998 he started in the top 5, 20 times and in the top-10, 27 times (out of 33 total races).
- The only driver to win 45 races in his first 199 starts.
- The only driver to capture 42 wins in his first 6 seasons.
- The only driver with 40 wins in 130 starts, thats a win percentage over 30%.
- The second highest career win percentage ever at 20.48%.
Winston Cup Career Stats:
Year Races Poles Wins Top 5 Top 10 Winnings 1992 1 0 0 0 0 $6,285 1993 30 1 0 7 11 $765,168 1994 31 1 2 7 14 $1,779,523 *1995 31 8 7 17 23 $4,347,343 1996 31 5 10 21 24 $3,428,485 *1997 32 1 10 22 23 $6,375,658 *1998 33 7 13 26 28 $9,306,584 1999 34 7 7 18 21 $5,121,361 2000 34 3 3 11 22 $2,703,586 2001 28 6 6 18 20 $5,881,400 Totals 285 39 58 147 186 $39,715,393 * Denotes Winston Cup Championship
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