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Team Chemistry

by Ed Hinton

Posted: Wed February 11, 1998

This season six NASCAR owners will field teams with more than one car, the most ever in Winston Cup racing. Owners are wising up to the fact that drivers from multicar teams have come to dominate NASCAR over the past decade. Last season more than 80% of the Winston Cup's 32 races were won by drivers from the stables of just three owners—Rick Hendrick (11 victories), Robert Yates (8) and Jack Roush (7), who says that managing his five-car racing empire is like "fishing with five poles." The chart below shows how multicar teams have taken hold of the circuit.

Year Multicar
teams Multicar
team wins Pct. of
races won

1990 2 2 6.9%

1991 2 4 13.8%

1992 3 8 27.6%

1993 4 7 23.3%

1994 4 10 32.3%

1995 3 14 45.2%

1996 3 18 58.1%

1997 4 26 81.3%

Issue date: February 16, 1998

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