Here we are, seven races into the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, so we decided to take a look at the No. 7 on the track throughout the sport’s history.
According to DriverAverages.com, the No. 7 has made 1,488 starts in NASCAR’s top division, with 23 victories, 141 top fives, 288 top 10s and 41 poles. All told, the No. 7 has been on track for 356,303 laps, leading 7,291 of them.
Now comes the fun part: Just seven different drivers have won in the No. 7, so after seven weeks of NASCAR racing, here’s all seven drivers who’ve won in the No. 7:
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Frank Mundy, 1 victory
In 1951, Mundy triumphed at Martinsville Speedway, where he won a 200-lap race in his No. 7 Oldsmobile.
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Fonty Flock, 1
In October 1951, Flock became the third different driver that season to win with the No. 7 Oldsmobile. He was victorious at North Wilkesboro Speedway.
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Kyle Petty, 1
Driving for the fabled Wood Brothers Racing team in February 1986, Petty won at Richmond International Raceway in the No. 7 Ford after Dale Earnhardt and Darrell Waltrip crashed with just a handful of laps to go. It was Petty’s first career victory.
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Bob Flock, 4
In 1949, the inaugural season of the NASCAR Strictly Stock Series, Flock drove the No. 7 Oldsmobile at two North Carolina tracks: North Wilkesboro Speedway and Occoneechee Speedway. Flock would win again in the No. 7 in 1951 at Greenville-Pickens Speedway and in 1952 in a No. 7 Hudson Hornet at Asheville-Weaverville Speedway in North Carolina.
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Geoffrey Bodine, 4
After the death of Alan Kulwicki in 1993, Bodine purchased the late driver’s equipment and formed his own team. In 1994, Bodine won at Pocono, Michigan and Dover, and two years later, he would scored his final victory in the No. 7 on the Watkins Glen road course.
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Alan Kulwicki, 5
The late, great 1992 NASCAR champion famously won his first race at Phoenix Raceway in 1988, where he performed his “Polish Victory Lap” in front of a wildly appreciative crowd. In his title season of ‘92, Kulwicki removed the “Th” from the bumper of his No. 7 Ford Thunderbird, which became dubbed “underbird” in recognition of his underdog status. A true original, Kulwicki perished in an airplane crash near Bristol Motor Speedway on April 1, 1993.
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Jim Reed, 7
Using first Fords and then Chevrolets, Reed won four races in 1958 and three more the following season. Out of his seven victories, by far the biggest was the 1959 Southern 500 at Darlington, where Reed and the No. 7 Chevrolet won by two laps over Bob Burdick, Bobby Johns and a kid named Richard Petty, who was just 22 years old at the time.
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