NASCAR Cup Series Championship

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Sun 8th November 2020 12:00am Local
Sun 8th November 2020 3:00pm UTC

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League
NASCAR Cup Series

Season
2020

Round
41

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Location
Phoenix Raceway

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Description

The NASCAR Cup Series Drivers' Championship is awarded by the chairman of NASCAR to the most successful NASCAR Cup Series racing car driver over a season, as determined by a points system based on race results. The Drivers' Championship was first awarded in 1949 to Red Byron. The first driver to win multiple Championships was Herb Thomas in 1951 and 1953. The current Drivers' Champion is Chase Elliott, who won his first NASCAR Cup Series championship in 2020.
Overall, thirty-four different drivers have won the Championship, with Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, and Jimmie Johnson holding the record for most titles at seven. Johnson has the record for most consecutive Drivers' Championships, winning five from 2006 to 2010. Thus far, every champion has originated from the United States.

Chase Elliott won the biggest race of his life — rallying from having to drop to the rear of the field on pace laps to cross the Phoenix Raceway finish line first in the Series Finale 500 — earning his first career NASCAR Cup Series championship at the age of 24, the youngest champion in NASCAR’s premier series in 25 years.

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Result List

01	Chase Elliott	Hendrick Motorsports	312 Laps
02	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske NASCAR	312 Laps
03	Joey Logano	Team Penske NASCAR	312 Laps
04	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	312 Laps
05	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	312 Laps
06	Ryan Blaney	Team Penske NASCAR	312 Laps
07	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	312 Laps
08	Matt DiBenedetto	Wood Brothers Racing	312 Laps
09	William Byron	Hendrick Motorsports	312 Laps
10	Martin Truex Jr.	Joe Gibbs Racing	312 Laps