Kyle Busch posthumously wins NASCAR Most Popular Driver Award
Kyle Busch posthumously won the NASCAR Cup Series Most Popular Driver Award, NASCAR announced Tuesday.
Busch won the award, becoming the 21st different driver to win the Most Popular Driver Award.
Busch, who was 41 at the time of his sudden passing, won 63 NASCAR Cup Series races and two championships (2015 and 2019).
Prior to this year, 2020 NASCAR Cup Series champion Chase Elliott had won the last eight years. He bowed out of contention for the award, and other drivers encouraged their fans to vote for Busch.
Chase’s father Bill Elliott, the 1988 champion, has won the award the most at 16 times. Dale Earnhardt Jr. has won the award the second-most times at 15.
The full year-by-year list can be viewed here.
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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