Jimmie Johnson is the only Nascar driver to win the Cup Series championship five times. Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr. won seven championships each.
Lee Petty won the Nascar Grand National Series championship in 1954.
Dale Jr. has never won a Nascar Cup Series championship.
Matt Kenseth won the Nascar Cup Series championship one time. It was in 2003. That was the last season under the Winston Cup name.
Ned Jarrett won the 1961 Championship, driving the #11 Chevy Impala for W.G. Holloway Jr. He won one race and finished in the top ten 34 times. He also won four pole positions.
Dale Sr. finished in the top ten in Nascar Cup Series championship points standings 20 times in his career.
Richard Petty is nicknamed The King, is most well-known for winning the Nascar Championship seven times.
No driver won the Nascar championship four times in a row, when it was called the Winston Cup Series. Jimmie Johnson won the championship five consecutive years, from 2006-2010. In the first two it was known as the Nextel Cup, in the last three it was the Sprint Cup. Cale Yarborough won the most Winston Cup Series championships in a row, with three, from 1976-1978.
In 2011, Danica Patrick started 12 Nascar Nationwide Series races. She did not race in the Nascar Cup Series.
In his career, Jeff Gordon has started from the pole position 72 times in the Nascar Cup Series and 12 times in the Nationwide Series (formerly known as the Busch Series).
Robby Gordon is currently not racing in any NASCAR series. In 2012, he only raced three times in the Cup Series.
Through 2013, Kasey Kahne has made 360 Nascar Cup Series starts and 202 Nationwide Series starts.
Mark Martin has never won a Nascar title. He was a five time runner-up for the Nascar Cup Series championship.