[The Champ]

Originally Posted by The Boss

But....what happens when Jimmy Johnson gets his 7th championship? Does it get an * like the home run records during the roid years since NASCAR monkeyed with the points system every ****ing year???

It should...

The old points scheme worked fine. It promoted both winning races and consistency.

Petty won 7 Championships and in those years won 93 of his 200 Cup wins. He also had 4 seasons where he had 10 or more wins that he didn't win the Championship.

Example - 1970 he had 18 wins and finished 4th. Bobby Isaac won that year with only 11 wins. Bobby had 32 top 5's compared to Richards's 27. Bobby also finished a lot more races - completing 11,253 miles of competition compared to Richard's 9,813.