In NASCAR Cup Series competition the #0 car has started 351 races and has 2 wins, 2 poles, 16 top 5s, 47 top 10s, and 153 DNFs.
In 2003, Gene Haas (now of Stewart-Haas racing) launched his own Cup series team with 3 time Truck Series Champion Jack Sprague behind the wheel. The team, with a Hendrick alliance, fielded the #0 Pontiac to promote Spraque’s longtime sponsor NetZero. After 18 starts and a best finish of 14th at the Daytona 500, Sprague was released from the team.
John Andretti replaced Sprague midway through 2003, but Andretti had a previous commitment with DEI to race in the Brickyard 400. Lacking a driver, The Haas team tapped Jason Leffler to drive the car in a one-race deal at Indianapolis. However, Leffler at the time was driving for Jim Smith’s #2 Truck team that received a substantial support from Dodge. Leffler’s drive in the NetZero Pontiac would breach his contract and result in his firing from from his truck team. After Andretti raced the following week at Watkins Glen, Leffler was hired by Haas to complete the season in #0. When Ward Burton was hired by Haas for the 2004 season, Burton replaced Leffler for the final 4 races of the 2003 season. Leffler was reassigned to drive the #00 Busch Series (XFINITY) car for Haas where he would earn his first win in NASCAR’s second-tier series. Ward drove the car for the 2004 season, but struggled. Andretti started the #0 car 3 times, Leffler 10 times, and Buron 38 times.
Mike Bliss replaced struggling the Ward Burton in the #0 for the final 2 races of the 2004 season where his 10th place finish at Darlington earned him the seat for the 2005 season. Bliss nearly won the 2005 All Star Open, but contact with Brian Vickers would cause him to finish 2nd. Bliss earned 2 top 10 finishes in 2005, but was released at the end of the year. For the 2006 season the car was renumbered #66, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Best Buy.
From 1981-1992 Delma Cowart started #0 in a handful of races each season, mostly at the superspeedways of Daytona and Talladega. Cowart has a total of 20 starts in the number. Cowart was a notorious for throwing extravagant parties when he qualified for races. Hefamously stated "I ain't never won a race, though I ain't lost a party."
Jim Cook started only 7 Cup races in the number ZERO car, earning 1 win in 1960. Cook was also a car owner for dirt track driver J. Wvatt who piloted Cook’s ZERO car.
Darel Dieringer started 4 races in #0 in 1966 including 1 win at New York’s Starlite Speedway.
Other notable names in #0
EJ Trivette, 6 starts
Tiny Lund, 5 starts
Dan Gurney , 4 starts
Curtis Crider, 2 starts
Cale Yarborough, 1 start
Johnny Rutherford, 1 start
Buck Baker, 1 start
Jim Inglebright , 1 start
Jeff Burton, 1 start
