Throughout its 75 year history, there have always been certain car numbers that became bigger than the men who drove them – the number 43, 21, three, and eight to name just a few.
Over the weekend at Talladega Superspeedway, Kyle Busch won his second race of the 2023 season in just his first year driving for Richard Childress Racing.
Throughout the history of RCR, there have been only eleven different drivers to win 115 races for RCR in over 50 years of RCR.
Paul Menard earned his only win with RCR.
Ryan Newman earned one of his 18 wins with RCR.
In an overtime event, Kyle Busch won his second race for RCR in just 10 races. Busch now has a total of 62 Cup Series wins.
Ricky Rudd won two of his 23 races with RCR.
Now with 23 XI Racing, Tyler Reddick has earned all three of his Cup Series wins driving for RCR.
Robby Gordon also won all three of his races driving for RCR.
Driving the number three car, grandson Austin Dillon has won all four of his races driving for Pop Pop Richard Childress.
Now an NBC Sports broadcaster, Jeff Burton earned four of his 21 wins driving for RCR.
FOX Sports broadcaster is known for driving the number 14 car for Stewart Haas Racing, but he earned five of his 10 wins driving for RCR.
Originally driving for RCR after the death of Dale Earnhardt Sr, Kevin Harvick has won 23 of his now 60 Cup Series wins at RCR.
Over half of the race wins for Richard Childress Racing have come from one driver – Dale Earnhardt Sr – who had 67 of his 76 race wins driving the number three car for RCR.
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