Drivers with the Most All-Time combined Wins in NASCAR National Series

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, popularly known worldwide as NASCAR is the premier motorsports organization in the United States. Conceived in 1947 by American entrepreneur Bill France Sr., NASCAR holds over 1200 races annually across the U.S.A., Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Europe.

The races are a big hit as the usually oval circuits provide a full vantage point of the action to all fans in the stands. The adrenaline rush of cars battling it out at over 200 miles an hour and within mere inches of crashing into the walls is palpable even on screen.

Even though the acronym NASCAR only alludes to cars, the racing body even holds truck races. In fact, the Craftsman Truck Series is one of the three national series conducted every year by NASCAR, the other two being the Cup Series and the Xfinity Series. The Cup Series is the oldest of the lot and widely considered the most elite level.

There are 36 rounds held in a season and the title is won at the end of the final Championship 4 race, where the top finisher among the final four is declared champion. Founded in 1982, the Xfinity Series is a rung below the Cup Series and acts as a feeder series for the drivers.

The races are held at the same tracks as the Cup but with reduced lap counts and the championship winner is determined by a similar format. The Craftsman Truck Series is the youngest national series, after being inaugurated only in 1995. It gets the name due to the drivers competing in production pickup trucks. This is also where most NASCAR professionals debut in the national series.

Kyle Busch is the all-time leader in race wins across all national series combined, with 229. The “Rowdy Wild Thing” from Las Vegas has over 60 wins in each national series. In fact, he is the only driver ever to have won at least 20 races in each series.

He also has the most wins in both the Xfinity and Craftsman Trucks series. Richard “the King” Petty is second on the all-time list of most wins. Petty was a Cup Series specialist, with all of his 200 victories coming in the top tier. Kevin Harvick rounds the top three with 121 races won.

Ron Hornaday Jr. holds the unlucky record for most national series wins (55) without a single Cup Series victory. Mark Martin is often described as the greatest driver to have never won a NASCAR championship in any series. With 96, he has the most wins on the combined all-time list without a title. He finished runner-up in the Cup series five times and in third place a further four times.

In total, 41 drivers have won at least one race in each of the three series, out of which 21 have won multiple races in each category, as of 13 August 2023. The table below lists the drivers with the most number of race wins in the three national series of NASCAR combined, as per records on the official NASCAR website.