Earlier this week, Stewart-Haas Racing announced that they would be shutting down the team at the end of the 2024 racing season.
In 2008, Tony Stewart joined Gene Haas to form SHR. In 2009 Tony Stewart won the team’s first race. Since that time Stewart-Haas Racing has won a total of 69 races among just eight drivers.
Smoke won the first race; but does he own the title of SHR’s winningest driver???
Current SHR driver Chase Briscoe earned his one win while driving with SHR.
Cole Custer earned his single Cup Series win while driving for SHR.
Recently retiring from Stewart-Haas, Aric Almirola won two of his three race wins while driving the number 10 car for SHR.
Now in the FOX broadcast booth, Clint Bower won 10 Cut Series races during his career; two of them were while he was driving at Stewart-Haas.
No longer a full time Cup Series driver, Rocket man Ryan Newman earned four of his 18 wins while driving at SHR.
Retiring after a nasty crash that resulted in a concussion, Kurt Busch has a total of 33 Cup Series wins in his career; six of them were while driving at SHR.
Smoke has 49 Cup Series wins; he earned 16 of those wins as a driver/owner at Stewart-Haas Racing.
But the driver who has the most wins as a driver for SHR is Kevin Harvick who retired last year at the end of the season with a total of 60 Cup Series wins; over half of them – 37 – were as the driver of the number Busch car for SHR.