Five best superspeedway racers in NASCAR history

For the reason that introduction of restrictor plates in 1988, there have all the time been NASCAR drivers who’ve mastered the artwork of drafting at superspeedways. 

These are the 5 superspeedway racers in NASCAR historical past, from 1988 to the current day. 

5. Joey Logano (5 wins)

Logano might “solely” have 5 wins on the drafting tracks of Daytona, Talladega and Atlanta, however he is the one driver to win on all three. it ought to be famous that solely 5 races have been held at Atlanta because it was reconfigured right into a drafting monitor in 2022, but it surely should not be a shock that Logano was one of many first drivers to tame its excessive banks. 

Logano’s greatest superspeedway win got here within the 2015 Daytona 500, which, apparently sufficient, is the one victory that the two-time champion has on the 2.5 mile monitor. 

4. Denny Hamlin (5 wins)

Each Hamlin and Logano bounce fellow superspeedway ace Brad Keselowski for one main cause: they’ve each gained the Daytona 500. Hamlin has gained the race thrice, together with twice in a row in 2019 and 2020. 

Hamlin additionally has two victories at Talladega, and whereas he is but to win a superspeedway race within the Subsequent-Gen automotive, you may by no means rely out the veteran driver at any time when the circuit visits one of many excessive banked, excessive pace ovals. 

3. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (10 wins)

Jr gained six occasions at Talladega and 4 occasions at Daytona, together with Daytona 500 victories in 2004 and 2014. Nicknamed the “Pied Piper of Daytona”, Earnhardt Jr., like his father earlier than him, had a knack for the drafting tracks. 

He did not fairly boast the superspeedway resume of his father, however the superspeedway genes clearly handed down from father to son. 

2. Jeff Gordon (12 wins)

A 3-time Daytona 500 winner (1997, 1999, 2005), Gordon additionally gained three Firecracker 400’s at Daytona (1995, 1998, 2004) and was a six-time winner at Talladega, matching the win whole of Earnhardt Jr on the Alabama monitor. 

In actual fact, Gordon might have been the most important superspeedway nemesis of each Earnhardt’s, because the No. 24 workforce was quick all over the place it went. 

1. Dale Earnhardt Sr. (13 wins)

The 13 wins credited to Earnhardt listed below are solely the factors paying races he gained at Daytona and Talladega, as if exhibition races have been counted, he’d have an insurmountable lead. Earnhardt gained the Busch Conflict at Daytona six occasions, and gained his qualifying race for the Daytona 500 12 occasions, together with 10 occasions in a row from 1990-99. 

A ten-time winner at Talladega, the Daytona 500 was the one superspeedway prize that eluded him, however “The Intimidator” lastly captured the Nice American Race in 1998. He might not have been capable of see the air like everybody says he might, however he was clearly the most effective superspeedway racer within the historical past of NASCAR.