Alternate NASCAR Champions

Key: No.(s) - Number, Man.(s) - Manufacture, St - Starts, P - Pole Positions, Ws - Wins, TT - Top Ten, Pts - Points,
NASCAR Cup Series Champions
Season	Driver 	Owner(s)/Team 	No.(s)	Man.(s) 	St	P 	Ws	TT	Pts 	Portrait
1949 	Red Byron 	Raymond Parks 	22 	Oldsmobile	6 	1 	2 	4 	842.5 	
1950 	Bill Rexford 	Julian Buesink 	8
20
59
60
62
80	Oldsmobile	17	0 	1 	11	1,959 	
1951 	Herb Thomas 	Herb Thomas
Marshall Teague
Leonard Tippett
Hubert Westmoreland	92
6
99
2	Plymouth
Hudson
Oldsmobile	34	4 	7 	18	4,208.45	
1952 	Tim Flock 	Ted Chester 	91 	Hudson 	33	4 	8 	25	6,858.5 	
1953 	Herb Thomas 	Herb Thomas 	92 	Hudson 	37	12	12	31	8,460 	
1954 	Lee Petty 	Petty Enterprises
Gary Drake	42
100	Chrysler
Dodge
Oldsmobile	34	3 	7 	32	8,649 	
1955 	Tim Flock 	Carl Kiekhaefer
Hubert Westmoreland	300
301
2	Chrysler
Chevrolet	39	18	18	33	9.596 	
1956 	Buck Baker 	Carl Kiekhaefer
James Satcher
John Whitford	00
87
300
300C
301
500B
502
87
31	Chrysler
Dodge
Ford	48	12	14	39	9,272 	
1957 	Buck Baker 	Buck Baker
Hugh Babb 	87 	Chevrolet 	40	6 	10	38	10,716 	
1958 	Lee Petty 	Petty Enterprises 	42 	Oldsmobile	50	4 	7 	43	12,232 	
1959 	Lee Petty 	Petty Enterprises 	42
43 	Oldsmobile
Plymouth	42	2 	11	35	11,792 	
1960 	Rex White 	Rex White
L.D. Austin
Beau Morgan
Scotty Cain	4
74
15
41	Chevrolet
Ford	40	3 	6 	35	21,164 	
1961 	Ned Jarrett 	Ned Jarrett
B.G. Holloway 	11 	Ford
Chevrolet	46	4 	1 	34	27,272 	
1962 	Joe Weatherly 	Bud Moore
Fred Harb 	8
17 	Pontiac
Ford	52	7 	9 	45	30,836 	
1963 	Lee Petty 	Petty Enterprises 	42 	Oldsmobile	54	7 	5 	43	33,472 	
1964 	Lee Petty 	Petty Enterprises 	42 	Plymouth
Oldsmobile	61	17	10	48	40,542 	
1965 	Ned Jarrett 	Bondy Long
Jabe Thomas 	11
25 	Ford 	54	9 	13	45	38,824 	
1966 	David Pearson 	Cotton Owens 	6 	Dodge 	42	7 	15	33	35,638 	
1967 	Richard Petty 	Petty Enterprises 	43 	Plymouth 	48	18	27	40	42,472 	
1968 	David Pearson 	Holman Moody
Roy Trantham 	17
84 	Ford 	48	12	16	38	3,499 	
1969 	David Pearson 	Holman Moody 	17 	Ford 	51	13	11	44	4,170 	
1970 	Bobby Isaac 	Nord Krauskopf 	71 	Dodge 	47	13	11	38	3,911 	
1971 	Richard Petty 	Petty Enterprises 	43 	Plymouth 	46	9 	21	41	4,435 	
1972 	Richard Petty 	Petty Enterprises 	43 	Plymouth 	31	3 	8 	28	8,701.4 	
1973 	Benny Parsons 	L.G. DeWitt 	72 	Chevrolet
Mercury	28	0 	1 	21	7,173.8 	
1974 	Richard Petty 	Petty Enterprises 	43 	Dodge 	30	7 	10	23	5,037.75	
1975 	Richard Petty 	Petty Enterprises 	43 	Dodge 	30	3 	13	24	4,783 	
1976 	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	11 	Chevrolet 	30	2 	9 	23	4,644 	
1977 	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	11 	Chevrolet 	30	3 	9 	27	5,000