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A separate Chase for the Championship is operated by the Nextel Cup Owners Championship and the Nextel Cup Drivers Championship. Over the course of a cup series it is quite common for drivers points to differ from owners points. It is rare for drivers and owners to be the same people in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. This fact is due to the structure of the modern NASCAR Nextel Cup Series races tending to favour racing teams that own multiple cars. The youngest person to win the NASCAR Cup Series is Bill Rexford, back in 1950 when the Cup Series was born. Richard Petty, son of previous NASCAR Cup Series champion Lee Petty, who won twenty seven races back in 1967, is the most successful driver ever in the NASCAR Cup Series. The NASCAR Cup Series was born to promote the sport of racing which started out with little reward on dirt tracks. The first driver in a NASCAR Cup Series to collect winnings in excess of $100,000 was Richard Petty. Besides the skill of the drivers, it takes several others to win the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. These include the dedicated crews who support cars during the race for the cup and also on the designers, who work year round on find ways to improve the cars for participation in the series. Computer simulations are used by NASCAR crew chiefs to assist them in judging how well cars are likely to run in the series. Most are in agreement that a strong, durable engine is the most important thing when it comes to winning the NASCAR Nextel Cup. Nextels sponsorship of the NASCAR Cup Series has helped to revive corporate interest in the telecommunications company. Nextel was recently purchased by the Sprint corporation to become Sprint Nextel. It is expected that this will result in next years premiere racing competition being renamed from the NASCAR Cup Series to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. NASCAR continues to reinvent itself to appeal to the masses, to provide increased value to its sponsors and to provide more safety to the drivers. Sources:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_Nextel_Corporation http://www.nascar.com/ |
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