The Nascar driver who started the race, gets the points and the credit for the win. It doesn't matter who finished the race for them.

He scored his first points for Brawn GP at the Australian GP in Melbourne 2009 - the first race of the season and the first race for the team. He came in second place and scored 8 points.

the points leader. The closest the winner of the last race of the season came close to winning the Cup was in 1992, when Atlanta race winner Bill Elliott lost the Cup by a mere 10 points to Alan Kulwicki who finished second in the race (and had led 1 more lap than Elliott to get the 5 extra bonus points for leading the most laps)

Depending on the size of the race as well as the organization of the race, racers with numbers who do not pass all the check points are disqualified.

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