List of Piston Cup Champions

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

List

1. 1940: Jay Roper
2. 1941-1945 seasons cancelled due to World War 2
3. 1946: Blue Byron
4. 1947: Ya Chun Fei
5. 1948: Percy Barbel
6. 1949: Jack Ford
7. 1950: Ya Chun Fei
8. 1951: Doc Hudson
9. 1952: Doc Hudson
10. 1953: Doc Hudson
11. 1954: LeRoy Heming
12. 1955: Rusty Dipstick
13. 1956: River Scott
14. 1957: Louise Nash
15. 1958: Junior Moon
16. 1959: Slide Powers
17. 1960: Morris Axler
18. 1961: Kurt Shiftright
19. 1962: Mario Andretti
20. 1963: Bobby Carsac
21. 1964: Joe Allen Foyt
22. 1965: Ronald Oaks
23. 1966: Mario Andretti
24. 1967: Morris Axler
25. 1968: Slide Powers
26. 1969: Joe Allen Foyt
27. 1970: Bobby Carsac
28. 1971: The King
29. 1972: Thomas Tireson
30. 1973: Thomas Tireson
31. 1974: Alloy Wilson
32. 1975: The King
33. 1976: Andrew Axler
34. 1977: Kraig Shiftright
35. 1978: Kraig Shiftright
36. 1979: Bill Brady
37. 1980: The King
38. 1981: Darrell Cartrip
39. 1982: Don Chapcar
40. 1983: Alloy Wilson
41. 1984: Dale Earnhardt Sr
42. 1985: Don Chapcar
43. 1986: Dale Earnhardt Sr
44. 1987: The King
45. 1988: The King
46. 1989: Murray Clutchburn
47. 1990: Klint Shiftright
48. 1991: Klint Shiftright
49. 1992: Haul Inngas
50. 1993: Klint Shiftright
51. 1994: Ernie Gearson
52. 1995: Larry Smith
53. 1996: Eugene Carbureski
54. 1997: James Cleanair
55. 1998: The King
56. 1999: Murray Clutchburn
57. 2000: Chuck Armstrong
58. 2001: The King
59. 2002: Billy Oilchanger
60. 2003: Ruby Oaks
61. 2004: Dale Earnhardt Jr
62. 2005: Chick Hicks 
63. 2006: Lightning McQueen
64. 2007: Lightning McQueen
65. 2008: Cal Weathers
66. 2009: Lightning McQueen
67. 2010: Lightning McQueen
68. 2011: Cal Weathers
69. 2012: Lightning McQueen
70. 2013: Lightning McQueen
71. 2014: Lightning McQueen
72. 2015: Brick Yardley
73. 2016: Jackson Storm
74. 2017: Cruz Ramirez
75. 2018: Cruz Ramirez
76. 2019: Jackson Storm
77. 2020: Cruz Ramirez
78. 2021: Daniel Swervez
79. 2022: TBA
80. 2023: TBA

Winners

Strip Weathers (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) (1960 and 1967)

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)

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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)

Danny 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 the UK 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.