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Ernie Irvan
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NASCAR Winston Cup
Career: 1987-99
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Irvan began his full-time career in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series in 1989 and won the first of his 15 series events just one year later. The winner of the 1991 Daytona 500, Irvan finished a career-best fifth in the series points race. Three years later, he suffered life-threatening injuries from a crash during practice in August at Michigan Speedway. Despite missing the last 11 races of the 1994, Irvan still won the True Value Hard Charger Award for most laps led in a season. Irvan returned to the cockpit in 1995, just 37 races later, finishing sixth in the October race at North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway. Irvan won the 1993 Super Ford Magazine Driver of the Year award (voted by its readers), and in 1994 and 1995 won the Maxwell House Spirit Award (voted by the National Motorsports Press Association). Irvan retired from racing in September 1999 after sustaining head injuries in a second crash, this time in Busch Series practice, at Michigan.
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| Starts |
Wins |
Poles |
Top 5 |
Top 10 |
| 262 |
15 |
19 |
68 |
108 |
| Laps |
Laps Led |
Races Led |
Miles |
Winnings |
| 75,079 |
5,707 |
132 |
91,817 |
$8,951,590 |
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