Who is 29 in nascar

Ryan Blaney's triumph in the debut for the Charlotte Motor Speedway road-course layout was the first win by the No. Master mechanic Smokey Yunick scoffed at the bad-luck number with a series of sinister, black-and-gold No. Until recently, team owners shied away from No. Without a clear front-runner for a lightly used number, the edge goes to Yunick -- we get he's not a driver -- over Casey Mears' longevity seven seasons and more than a third of the No.

One came at Atlanta in ; the other fell in the Daytona the following year. When he formed his own team in , Stewart opted to honor his hero, A. Foyt, with his choice of No.

Notable: Amazingly, the No. Speedway to Tony Stewart's first as an owner-driver in at Pocono. None of A. Foyt's seven Cup Series victories came with the No.

Few drivers spent more than three seasons with the No. Notable: Bobby Allison scored 14 wins with No. No other driver of the No. Buddy Baker has the most pole positions with the No. Included with that list were two dominant triumphs at Darlington Raceway.

Kenseth's stats are no slouch either, including the Cup championship and a pair of Daytona wins , with Roush Fenway Racing.

He also has the most starts in the No. Honorable mentions: David Pearson, Darrell Waltrip. Notable: Only four drivers have won in the Cup Series with the No. Bobby Labonte is second-best, with all 21 of his Cup Series wins coming in the No. That victory came courtesy of California driver Marvin Burke on Oct. It would be just over 41 years until the No. Premier-series starts for the number: 1, Premier-series wins for the number: 16 Analysis: Among the 25 most-used numbers in Cup Series history, the No.

Carl Edwards' five victories made him our initial pick, but Martin Truex Jr. Notable: Henley Gray's association with the No. Smoke captured two championships and 33 wins with the number.

Matt Kenseth is a not-so-close second with 15 wins in a five-year span with No. Honorable mentions: Matt Kenseth, Clyde Lynn. Notable: Before Stewart's first Cup victory in the fall of , the No. But that lone win was a big one, with Marvin Panch stunning the Daytona field in a year-old Pontiac prepared by Smokey Yunick. He recorded 43 of his wins in a seven-plus-year stretch, an even more impressive feat considering that the team ran only partial schedules during the s.

Notable: Trevor Bayne's surprise win in the Daytona ended a nearly year drought for the No. The first Cup Series winner to carry No.

Of his 33 career wins, 30 came with that car number, including the Daytona Allison and Logano each secured championships with the number. Logano has scored 24 of his 26 career wins with the No. Frank Mundy enjoyed a brief window of success in stock-car racing's early days, driving Perry Smith's No. Honorable mentions: Jimmy Spencer. Notable: The last win for a No.

Among his more noteworthy distinctions in the No. Jimmy Spencer scored eight top-five finishes in starts with the No. Jeff Gordon is only one of two drivers to win with the No. It also elevated his car number to legendary status in stock-car racing history. Honorable mentions: Cecil Gordon, William Byron. Notable: Jeff Gordon's iconic number was actually an 11th-hour switch.

According to his longtime crew chief Ray Evernham, Gordon's car was initially supposed to don No. The closest he came to victory with the number was a second-place finish at Dover in , ending up seven laps down to race winner David Pearson. William Byron won in the regular-season finale at Daytona in , becoming just the second driver to carry the number to victory.

Hendrick enjoyed eight more wins with No. Honorable mentions: Ken Schrader, Jabe Thomas. Notable: All nine of Richmond's wins in car No. The number stayed in the family upon his retirement from driving with his son, Ronnie, wheeling No. No other driver has more than two wins with the number.

Champion drag racer Kenny Bernstein fielded the No. The last driver to win with No. Wallace posted 18 of his 55 career wins and marched to the championship in the No. Junior Johnson is the only other driver to reach double digits in the No. Notable: Five of Wallace's 18 wins with the No.

International Raceway in Legendary car builder Banjo Matthews' No. Junior Johnson, Cale Yarborough, A. Fred Lorenzen's win tally in the No. That stretch included back-to-back Daytona wins in The first of his five premier-series wins was in a Holman-Moody-prepared No. With the sports world still staggered by the loss of Dale Earnhardt in , the No.

His victory at Atlanta just three races after Earnhardt's passing provided a comforting moment that all of the garage needed. Harvick's 23 wins with the number are the most all-time. The splendid Dick Hutcherson is next-closest with Honorable mentions: Dick Hutcherson, Nelson Stacy. Nelson Stacy won just four times with No.

Harvick has the most all-time starts with the No. The closer link and most extensive history with the car number, though, are Michael Waltrip's ties over a nine-season span Waltrip holds the most top fives and top 10s with the No.

Notable: Cale Yarborough made three starts with No. Waltrip's closest brush with victory in the No. Plus, Burton has the most all-time starts with the number: from Mike Skinner holds the mark for most poles with the No. Jeff Burton isn't the only keeper of the No. His brother, Ward, made 46 starts with No. The last of those wins was etched in dramatic, fender-scraping fashion by. Craven also is the only driver to win a pole position with the number, snagging three in a race span from Honorable mentions: Dick Brooks, Brownie King.

Notable: Dick Brooks held the No. Brooks holds the mark for most top finishes in the No. Hall of Famer Alan Kulwicki made his premier-series debut with No. Gant accounts for 18 of the 23 victories for the No. He also tops the No. Honorable mentions: Clint Bowyer, Ken Schrader. Notable: Gant's first win in April at Martinsville broke a nearly year drought for the car number, dating back races to Lou Figaro's only Cup Series triumph.

Gant finished second six times in the No. Besides Gant, Clint Bowyer is the only other driver with multiple wins with the No. Bowyer won three times -- including twice at Talladega -- during his three-season run with Richard Childress Racing The lone African-American driver to win a premier-series race faithfully flew the number for of his Cup Series starts from That included his only triumph, posted in December at Jacksonville, Florida.

Honorable mentions: Jim Roper, David Ragan. Roper was declared the winner after Glenn Dunaway's first-finishing Ford was disqualified. After Scott's historic win, it was plus years until the No. The most recent No. Scott holds the most top-five and top finishes with the car number. That brief stint with Hendrick Motorsports, however, produced six top-five finishes, more than the No. Parsons also placed the No.

Honorable mentions: Alan Kulwicki. Notable: The only premier-series pole position by the No. Parsons finished second three times in an effort to help the No. His most prominent runner-up result came in the Daytona That's where Ernie Irvan's mark of three pole positions in nearly two seasons with the No.

The eye-catching Skittles paint scheme on those MB2 Motorsports entries also helped to cement part of that legacy at the end of Irvan's career.

Bailey, Ken Schrader. Notable: Tommy Irwin came closest to notching a victory with the No. Irwin also claimed two poles with the number. Larry Thomas holds the most top finishes with the No. Thomas, 29, lost his life in a highway crash in January on his way to a Goodyear tire test in Atlanta.

The number does not have a rich history, but Andretti contributed one of its two poles, starting first in the Southern at Darlington. Honorable mentions: Tiny Lund, Chris Buescher. Notable: Bobby Isaac gathered the lone victory on the No. That triumph -- posted at Columbia S. Speedway in -- was the second of his 37 Cup Series victories. No driver has posted more than three top-five finishes with the No.

But Elliott Sadler's two wins combine with longevity to form a stronger bond. Sadler drove Robert Yates Racing's No. Notable: The most recent win for the No. David Gilliland holds the all-time mark for most starts with the No.

His father, Butch, also used the No. Among those victories was a signature triumph from the pole in at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Newman also sits atop several key categories for No. Honorable mentions: Friday Hassler.

Raymond "Friday" Hassler made starts in the No. Hassler earned his nickname from the character Friday in the novel "Robinson Crusoe," because of his diligent work as a garage helper in his childhood. Only four drivers have pole-position starts with the No.

His connection comes with a gap: Marlin used No. Honorable mentions: Pete Hamilton, D. Ulrich, a longtime owner-driver. Ulrich used the No. Jamie McMurray's stunning first win in just his second Cup Series start came as a substitute for the injured Marlin in His first six starts came in the No. The first two of those wins came at the treacherous Langhorne Pa.

Speedway in and '50; his last win with No. Honorable mentions: Kurt Busch, Richard Petty. Notable: Turner used the No. Turner also won with Nos. Richard Petty won six times with the No. Three Petty family members competed with the car number, including Richard's father, Lee six career starts and his brother Maurice nine starts.

Kurt Busch's five-season term with Stewart-Haas Racing produced six wins. The first of those ended a drought of a little more than 48 years for the No. Cole Custer added to the number's history, winning at Kentucky Speedway in his rookie season of Lee Petty's association with the car number lasted for the majority of his career in NASCAR's early days, when he became the first three-time champion of its top division.

Notable: Three generations of Pettys have won with the No. Kyle Larson is the most recent premier-series winner with the No. Before him, it was Juan Pablo Montoya, who made the list with two victories using the car number Sonoma and Watkins Glen Notable: The number is the most-used in NASCAR premier-series history, with Richard Petty -- the sport's all-time leader in starts -- making more than half of those appearances.

The first-ever win for the No. The only other drivers to win with No. Petty Enterprises shelved the No. Rick Wilson replaced Petty, but the car was changed to No. Petty Enterprises brought the No. Maybe 44 was just 'too heavy' for us. Labonte won six times with the No. Honorable mentions: Bob Welborn, Rex White.

Labonte also claimed 16 pole positions from with No. It would be plus years until the most recent pole position for the No. Pagan made just 62 premier-series starts, and all but a dozen came with No. Despite the brief tenure, he also leads the car number's stats in pole positions six and top-five finishes.

Notable: LeeRoy Yarbrough is the only other driver to carry No. Adam Petty, the fourth generation of the racing family, made just one Cup Series start in the No. He died nearly six weeks later in a crash at New Hampshire.

His father, Kyle, eventually took over the No. Honorable mentions: Jack Smith, Roy Mayne. The car number has gone winless since Smith prevailed at Concord N.

Speedway in November , and hasn't recorded a top-five finish since Roy Mayne placed fifth at Augusta Ga. Speedway in November Eerily, Thompson died one day before turning 46 years old. During a Late Model race at Metrolina Speedway near Charlotte, Thompson stopped against a retaining wall and was found unresponsive by medical personnel.

Smith also posted 22 of his 23 career pole positions with the No. Fonty Flock was the first to win with the No. Speedway in his only triumph with the car number in Since , only three drivers have won with the No. Alex Bowman now continues to build on that legacy, taking over the No. Honorable mentions: James Hylton. Notable: Jimmie Johnson has switched numbers just once in his big-league career, adopting the No. Johnson also holds the record for most pole positions with the car number: James Hylton, a series regular from , scored two victories with the No.

His longevity with the car number rivals Johnson's: Hylton made of his career starts using No. That performance came in his trusty No. Honorable mentions: G. Among those wins was a qualifying race for the first Daytona in , with Welborn's No.

Scott will not be driving a full-time Sprint Cup Series schedule in although he does intend to do so in RCR putting Scott behind the wheel of the No. Having Scott on the track could also benefit the other RCR drivers as they will have another teammate out there for drafting purposes.

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