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Career Highlights:
- Won NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship in 1999
- Scored 32 NASCAR Sprint Cup victories and 16 Bud Pole Awards during his career
- Named one of NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers of all time in 1998
- One of five drivers in NASCAR history to win the Daytona 500 three times (1993, 1996, 2000)
- Two-time Brickyard 400 Champion (1996, 1999)
- Three-time winner of the Budweiser Shootout (1996, 2000, 2004)
- Won two “No Bull 5” $1 million bonuses: Talladega – 1998, Daytona – 2000
- International Race of Champions (IROC) Participant (1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002)
- Won two IROC races (Daytona – 2001, Indianapolis – 2002)
- Won “True Value Man of the Year” Award twice for his charity work (1997, 2000)
- Named “Driver of the Year” in all forms of motorsports in 1999
- Along with his father Ned, became only the second father-son duo to win the NASCAR Cup Series championship
- Two-time National Motorsports Press Association Driver of the Year (1997, 1999)
- Recipient of the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s Jill Ireland Award for Individual & Corporate Contributions in 1999
- Ford SVO Special Recognition Award in 1996
- Posted 11 victories and 14 poles in the NASCAR Busch Series (1982-1999)
- Athlete of the Year at Newton-Conover High School (football, basketball, baseball & golf) in 1975
- North Carolina High School Southern District Seven Golfer of the Year in 1974 & 1975
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