Throughout NASCAR’s history, 204 drivers have walked away from the track as a winner in the NASCAR Cup Series. However, as drivers retire and step away from the sport, the top spot for the winningest active driver remains ever-changing. So, in the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, who is the winningest full-time driver?
These drivers fall below the mark of less than ten or fewer career NASCAR Cup Series wins. This is a common trend on the Cup Series all-time wins list, as 143 of the 205 all-time Cup Series race winners in the series have less than ten or fewer wins.
While some of these drivers will not break out of this group, there are some clear favorites to do so. This year, we will likely see Alex Bowman and Tyler Reddick move up on the all-time wins list, and, as time goes on, Chase Briscoe, Ross Chastain, and Shane van Gisbergen are potential candidates to move past the ten-win mark.
The newest member of the 11 to 20 wins club is Christopher Bell, who began the season with nine career wins but has shifted up the list with back-to-back-to-back wins through four races.
All of these drivers are a part of the current group of series stars and are making their cases for future hall-of-fame consideration. Chase Elliott can likely pull away from this group in 2024. However, it would take multiple wins to do so this season, something he has not accomplished since 2022.
As of June 2025, the only active driver between the 20 and 29 wins total is NASCAR’s most popular driver, Chase Elliott. Elliott scored the 20th victory of his career at EchoPark Speedway (formerly Atlanta Motor Speedway), marking a milestone for the driver. With this win, he also snapped a 44-race winless streak, the longest one of his career.
Kyle Larson is currently the driver with the best combination of age and wins. Larson started his career slow, with six wins in his first six full-time seasons. However, since joining Hendrick Motorsports, Larson has taken a generational turn.
In his four completed seasons at HMS, Larson has won at least three races each year. In his debut season, he won ten races and the championship. His winning ways fell off with the introduction of the NASCAR Next Gen Car in 2022. However, Larson has continued to win more each year since then.
Bad Brad currently sits with the fourth most wins amongst active NASCAR Cup Series drivers.
Since Keselowski departed Team Penske for RFK Racing, his winning ways have fallen off. Yet, with his win at Darlington last season, most figured things were turning up for the No. 6. However, since that race, Brad has slowly dipped to a career low in performance.
Now, Brad sees those he battled for wins and championships in his prime skirt past him and head to the top of this list.
Joey Logano continues to age, but the multi-win seasons continue to find the now-veteran driver. Despite his slow start to his career at Joe Gibbs Racing, his time at Team Penske has been a roaring success.
Aside from his three NASCAR Cup Series titles, Logano has eight multi-win seasons at Penske and has won for the team every season during his 14-year streak. A win at Texas in May launched him past former Penske teammate Brad Keselowski and closer to the next driver on this list, Denny Hamlin.
The most controversial driver in NASCAR finds himself all alone in no man’s land with 60 wins. Hamlin started his NASCAR Cup Series career with consistent multi-win seasons from 2006 to 2017. However, Hamlin really ramped up from 2019 to 2024, in which he almost doubled his career wins by winning 23 races.
Hamlin is, of course, chasing the winningest active driver in the NASCAR Cup Series, Kyle Busch. Busch, who is also the all-time combined winningest driver in the three NASCAR National Series, put up previously unheard-of numbers during his time with Joe Gibbs Racing.
Busch entered JGR in 2008 with four wins and left in 2023 with 60. That averages out to roughly 3.73 races a season. However, since joining RCR, Busch’s winning ways have fallen off dramatically. This stretch with RCR includes the loss of his 20-year winning streak and a career-long losing drought.
If Busch and Hamlin’s trends remain the same, Hamlin could take the number one spot. However, as both drivers age and fall off in competition, Busch may remain in front of Hamlin.
This list will be updated race to race as the season continues.
Two NASCAR Cup Series crew members for Ross Chastain’s No. 1 team were suspended following the race at Circuit of the Americas
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On February 17, Ubisoft released a trailer that confirmed that NASCAR would be included in The Crew Motorfest’s next season update. Details were limited at the time, but in a press release issued today, Ubisoft revealed the full details of the update ahead of its March 4 launch.
Ubisoft says drafting will affect car speed and help save fuel, implying that drafting will be a huge factor in the game, at least with these cars. You can check out this and much more on Ubisoft’s official post linked below
Earlier this Tuesday, the official The Crew Motorfest account clarified confusion around the NASCAR bundles. The Crew Credit (CC) bundles only include cosmetic team liveries, not additional cars. The 3 base Next Gen cars (Ford Mustang Dark Horse, Toyota Camry XSE, and Chevrolet ZL1) are part of the free Season 9 update and can be purchased separately.
Mitch Rasmussen, NASCAR’s Senior Director of Interactive, said in the press release:
We’re excited to bring our iconic brand to life in The Crew Motorfest. This collaboration represents another important step in our strategy to bring NASCAR into the digital spaces and places where next generation fans spend their time, giving players new ways to interact with the culture and communities they love.
The content arrives as part of Year 3 Season 9 and is officially licensed by NASCAR. You can watch the first trailer and learn more in the article linked below
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Four road courses on the schedule, and somehow that’s enough to spark one of the biggest debates in the garage. After recent comments from Brad Keselowski questioning the business value of road racing, the conversation has picked up serious steam. Is NASCAR leaning too far into it, or is the current balance about right?
There are valid points on both sides, from sponsorship realities to fan traditions to competitive diversity. Some tracks have gained traction. Others have struggled. The question isn’t just whether road courses belong, but how many make sense within a 36-race season. It’s less about extremes and more about direction. And with future schedule changes always looming, this debate probably isn’t settled anytime soon.
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