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The only time the Formula 1, IndyCar, and NASCAR Cup Series champions in a given season have all won the title in the same season together before was back in 1957. Kyle Larson can change that.
Hendrick Motorsports’ Kyle Larson is one of four drivers set to compete for the NASCAR Cup Series championship in this Sunday afternoon’s season finale at Phoenix Raceway.
The driver of the No. 5 Chevrolet is set to compete against teammate William Byron, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell, and Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney for the right to be crowned 2023 champion.
Larson secured his Championship 4 spot by winning the round of 8 race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Bell won the following weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway, and Blaney won last weekend at Martinsville Speedway. Byron got in on points.
Should Larson finish higher than these other three drivers in this Sunday’s 312-lap race around the four-turn, 1.058-mile (1.703-kilometer) Avondale, Arizona oval to become a two-time champion, he will end a streak that dates all the way back to 1958.
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Back in 2021, Max Verstappen won the Formula 1 world championship, Alex Palou won the IndyCar championship, and Larson won the Cup Series championship. Verstappen has already clinched this year’s Formula 1 world title, while Palou won the IndyCar title.
A Larson Cup Series championship would make the 2023 season the second season in which all three champions are the same as they were in a previous season, something that hasn’t happened since 1957.
It has never happened with more than a season in between.
In 1956, Juan Manuel Fangio won the Formula 1 world championship, Buck Baker won the Cup Series title, and Jimmy Bryan won the USAC Championship Car (IndyCar) title. These same three drivers all won their respective championships in 1957 as well.
Considering the fact that all three of these series have seen seven-time champions emerge over the last six and a half decades, the fact that this 65-year streak could end in 2023 with three drivers who had never won championships before 2021 makes it seem that much more improbable.
