|
 |
|
|
|
|
NASCAR Number: 1 (Nov. 20, 2012)
By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service
1: The number of driver/crew chief combinations that have won both the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series championships. With Paul Wolfe on his pit box, Brad Keselowski won the Nationwide title in 2010 as he was making his full-time Cup debut with crew chief Jay Guy. In 2011, Keselowski and Wolfe were reunited at the Cup level and, a year later, they gave team owner Roger Penske his first championship in NASCAR’s premier series. Interestingly, only one other driver has won the Nationwide title and gone on to win the Cup championship (but with a different team and crew chief). That would be Bobby Labonte, who drove his family-owned Penrose Oldsmobile to the 1991 Nationwide (then Busch Series) title and subsequently won the 2000 Cup championship in a Joe Gibbs Racing Pontiac.
|
|
|
PaddockTalk Perspective
|
|
|
| |
|
