In NASCAR Cup Series competition the #01 car has started 501 races and has 1 win, 7 poles, 13 top 5s, 45 top 10s, and 191 DNFs.
Joe Nemechek has the most starts in #01 with 112 from 2003-2006 and claims ownership of the only win the number has with his defeat of Ricky Rudd at Kansas in 2004. It was Nemechek’s 4th Cup win, each coming with a different team.
Earle Canavan started #01 in 64 races from 1981-1986 without a win.
Paul Dean Holt started 53 races in the #01 from 1967-1968.
Regan Smith started 41 races in the #01 from 2007-2008. In 2008, Smith won the AMP Energy 500 at Talladega , but was stripped of the win for violating the “Out-of-Bounds” rule on the final lap. This is only the 2nd time in the modern era of Cup Series history that a race winner has been stripped of a victory, the first being Ricky Rudd at Sonoma in 1991.
In 2001, the late Jason Leffler drove the #01 Cingular Wireless car for Chip Ganassi Racing. LEFturn made 30 starts that year.
Mark Martin started #01 a total of 25 times in his career. 24 of those starts came in the 2007 season, where he almost won the Daytona 500 . In 1983, Martin made 1 start driving the #01 Activision car.
Other notable drivers in #01:
Ted Musgrave , 12 starts
Mike Skinner, 11 starts
Jerry Nadeau , 10 starts
Mike Wallace, 8 starts
Curtis Crider, 6 starts
Aric Almirola, 5 starts
Boris Said, 2 starts
Ron Fellows, 2 starts
Scott Pruett, 1 start
