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This is an entire list of all of the Piston Cup champions from each year.

Contents

1 List
2 Racers
3 Trivia
4 Gallery of Cups

List

Racers

Strip Weathers ("The King") (7) (1971, 1975, 1980, 1987, 1988, 1998, 2001)

Lightning McQueen (7) (2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014)

Doc Hudson (3) (1951, 1952 and 1953)

Cruz Ramirez (3) (2017, 2018 and 2020)

Klint Shiftright (3) (1990, 1991 and 1993)

Cal Weathers (2) (2008 and 2011)

Don Chapcar (2) (1982 and 1985)

Dale Earnhardt Sr (2) (1984 and 1986)

Jackson Storm (2) (2016 and 2019)

Murray Clutchburn (2) (1989 and 1999)

Slide Powers (2) (1959 and 1968)

Morris Axler (2) (1960 and 1967)

Thomas Tireson (2) (1972 and 1973)

Kraig Shiftright (2) (1977 and 1978)

Ya Chun Fei (2) (1947 and 1950)

Alloy Wilson (2) (1974 and 1983)

Mario Andretti (2) (1962 and 1966)

Bobby Carsac (2) (1963 and 1970)

Joe Allen Foyt (2) (1964 and 1969)

Jay Roper (1) (1940)

Blue Byron (1) (1946)

Percy Barbel (1) (1948)

Jack Ford (1) (1949)

Leroy Heming (1) (1954)

Rusty Dipstick (1) (1955)

River Scott (1) (1956)

Louise Nash (1) (1957)

Junior Moon (1) (1958)

Kurt Shiftright (1) (1961)

Ronald Oaks (1) (1965)

Andrew Axler (1) (1976)

Bill Brady (1) (1979)

Darrell Cartrip (1) (1981)

Haul Inngas (1) (1992)

Ernie Gearson (1) (1994)

Larry Smith (1) (1995)

Eugene Carbureski (1) (1996)

James Cleanair (1) (1997)

Chuck Armstrong (1) (2000)

Billy Oilchanger (1) (2002)

Ruby Oaks (1) (2003)

Dale Earnhardt Jr (1) (2004)

Chick Hicks (1) (2005)

Brick Yardley (1) (2015)

Daniel Swervez (1) (2021)

Trivia

The King and Lightning McQueen are the ones with most wins with both 7. The King won in 1971, 1975, 1980, 1987, 1988, 1998, and 2001 and Lightning McQueen won in 2006 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
Larry Smith wins his last Piston Cup championship in 1995. He would retire that year.
Klint's 1993 win was the closest after Misti Motorkrass retiring from the race with only a few laps remaining. If not for the failure she would have won the cup because Klint was 6th at the time.
The youngest Piston Cup winners are Jackson Storm in 2016 at age of 21, Mario Andretti in 1962 at the age of 22 and Lightning McQueen in 2006 at the age of 23.
The 1964 Piston Cup is the only Piston Cup that was stolen. A thief managed to break into Foyt's house and take the Cup on August 8th, 1991. Foyt and his wife were at Burger King at the time. The cup was found 2 months later in the thief's basement on October 27th, 1991.
Most Piston Cups are taken care of by the racers themselves or kept in museums but quite a few of them have been sold
The King keeps his and Cal's piston cups in his house and either he, Lynda or Cal cleans the cups every week.
The cups of Doc Hudson, Lightning McQueen, and Cruz Ramirez are kept in the Hudson Hornet museum.
Out of the 77 piston cups currently, only 76 survive as Ya Chun Fei revealed in 2013 Reunion of Legends that the 1947 Piston Cup was mostly destroyed in 2007 and only the main body and the right-wing still surviving. The base, left-wing and bottom part of the 1947 Piston Cup are all gone.
The Piston Cups are made out of gold. The base is just black colored plastic.
Jack DePost was pretty close in 2015 with Brick Yardley winning. Brick won by only winning the last two races.
The 1956 Piston Cup is the only Piston Cup not to be located in the USA, having gone through UK and Italy and is currently owned by a car in Italy.
Doc Hudson would've won the 1954 Piston Cup Season if it weren't for his big crash in the 1954 Fireball Beach 500.

Gallery of Cups

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