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IF tony were to quit or retire after winning the cup, would he be the first person to win a race every single season of there carreer?

IF not would he be the first person to win multiple races every season of his carreer?
 
Hmmm....Davey Allison maybe? I also don't recall Earnhardt having a winless season, unless one chooses to count some of those 1 and 2 race seasons before he went full time.
 
Interesting question, smack. I bet he would be. Tony's won in everything he's ever driven.

TWF, I'd forgotten about Davey.

Dale had a winless season --- 1981
 
I bet Scrabman is tongue,and fingering that record book as we speak.:D
 
Yea jeff gordon only had one winless season
Year Races Wins Top5 Top10 Money Won Poles
1993 30 0 7 11 $765,168 1
Dale 2
Year Races Wins Top 5 Top 10 Poles Point Standings
1981 31 0 9 17 0 7th
1997 32 0 7 16 0 5th
 
TWF, I'm checking my book now. I can find some that start their careers with wins, but end with several winless seasons.

Example --- Lee Petty -- started winning in 1949, and won every year through 1961--- only entered 3 races in '61 and won one!
Between 1962 and 1964, he only entered a total of 6 races.
 
De had a couple of winless seasons, as pointed out.

Davey never had a full season without multiple wins. He ran six full seasons.

Cale Yarborough never ran a full season without a win either I don't think.

I'm sure there were others back in the day.
 
I thought about Cale too, but wasn't sure. He and Junior Johnson made one heck of a team for a long time there, plus his time with the Woods, Waddell Wilson, and Holloman-Moody if I ain't too far out of my tree.
 
Cale and Junior were practically unstoppable.

Three consecutive championships, never equaled.

Yes Cale drove and won for all of those. But Cale ran a lot of partial seasons by choice. Won in most of them, but I would have to look it up to know if he won in all of them, I doubt it, the odds against are just too great.

David Pearson may never have run a winless full season either.
 
The problem with the past years, is what made up a full season?

Example --- 1965, Cale made 46 starts. Was that the full season?
In 1964, he made 24 starts. Was that a full season?

We're trying to compare apples and oranges, I do believe.

Davey made 3 starts in 85 -- no wins
5 starts in 86 --- no wins
22 starts in 87 -- 2 wins --- but the season had 29 races.
 
Then there's Richard Brickhouse, didn't he win his only start?

Better narrow this down to the ballyhooed Modern Era. Some of those seasons in the 60s had more sanctioned races than Clinton has alibis.
 
Yes it does get to be apples and oranges.

1965 had 54 races on the schedule.

1964 had 61 races.

Cale won in 65 but not in 64 if memory serves.

Back in those days almost no one ran the full schedule. Maybe two or three drivers most years.
 
Richard Brickhouse

1968 --- 7 starts --- 0 wins
1969 --- 24 starts --- 1 win
1970 --- 5 starts --- 0 wins
1979 --- 1 starts -- 0 wins
1982 --- 2 starts -- 0 wins

Technically, he did win in his only "full" season --- however the 1969 season had 54 races.
 
You might be thinking of Tiny Lund who won the very first race he ever entered. Nope, retraction, Tiny had been racing partial seasons for 8 years. Sorry.

Still looking.
 
Since you mentioned him, I got to meet Tiny a few months before he was killed. Kingsport Speedway. I was a wee little thing, but I remember it clearly. Great man.
 
Man I am taking notes tonight.I am learning a lot of trivia.:eek: We should build a Nascar Trivial Pursuit Game.Or you folks should.:)
 
Not only did Marvin win his one and only start.

It was also the first race NASCAR ever ran at Oakland Stadium, The circuit ran there twice in 1954 after that and never again.
 
Originally posted by TexasRaceLady
Then there is the interesting case of Dan Gurney

1965 -- 1 start -- 1 win
1966 -- 1 start -- 1 win
1968 -- 1 start -- 1 win
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And sandwiched in there in 1967, Parnelli Jones did the same thing. All those races were at Riverside.
 
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