# The 16 Greatest Chevrolet Drivers in NASCAR History

> One manufacturer, seventy years of bowtie badges, and champions who rarely agree on who carried it best.

*By YPB Team · Published September 11, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-16-greatest-chevrolet-drivers-in-nascar-history*

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1. **Jimmie Johnson** — score 1000/1000
   Seven championships and 83 wins, every one of them in a Chevrolet.
2. **Dale Earnhardt** — score 952/1000
   Won six of his seven titles in Chevrolets for Richard Childress Racing.
3. **Chase Elliott** — score 835/1000
   The 2020 champion and a serial Most Popular Driver winner for Hendrick.
4. **Geoff Bodine** — score 734/1000
   Gave Hendrick Motorsports its first win, in a Chevrolet at Martinsville in 1984.
5. **Dale Earnhardt Jr.** — score 571/1000
   Won the Daytona 500 twice and spent his best years in Chevrolets.
6. **Cale Yarborough** — score 571/1000
   Won three straight titles from 1976 to 1978 in Junior Johnson's Chevrolets.
7. **Jeff Burton** — score 571/1000
   Won 21 races, the later ones in Childress Chevrolets.
8. **Junior Johnson** — score 467/1000
   Won 50 races as a driver, then built the Chevrolet teams that won six titles.
9. **Terry Labonte** — score 467/1000
   Won the 1984 and 1996 championships in Chevrolets for two different owners.
10. **Kyle Larson** — score 467/1000
   Won the 2021 championship with ten wins in a Hendrick Chevrolet.
11. **Tony Stewart** — score 467/1000
   Won the 2011 title in a Chevrolet as an owner-driver at Stewart-Haas.
12. **Darrell Waltrip** — score 343/1000
   Took all three of his championships driving for Junior Johnson's Chevrolet team.
13. **Ricky Rudd** — score 343/1000
   Won in Chevrolets for Hendrick and for his own team in the 1990s.
14. **Buck Baker** — score 343/1000
   Won the 1957 championship in a Chevrolet, the marque's first Cup title.
15. **Jeff Gordon** — score 190/1000
   All 93 of his wins came in Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolets.
16. **Kevin Harvick** — score 190/1000
   Took over the No. 3 Chevrolet in 2001 and won 23 races with Childress.

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