In NASCAR Cup Series competition the #37 car has started 591 races and has 1 win, 2 poles, 18 top 5s, 83 top 10s, and 214 DNFs.

John Andretti drove the #37 in 54 races from 1995-1996. Andretti drove the #37 Kmart/Little Caesar’s Ford for Michael Kranefuss.


Toward the end of 1996 Andretti left the #37 to drive the #98 RCA Ford for Cale Yarbrough. Jeremy Mayfield  was driving the #98 at the time and basically swapped rides with Andretti. Mayfield drove #37 for Kranefuss for 39 races from 1996-1997.


From 2002-2003 Derrike Cope  drove the #37 in 20 starts as an owner/driver.


Front Row Motorsports began running part-time in 2004 as Means-Jenkins Motorsports under a partnership with Jimmy Means and restaurant entrepreneur Bob Jenkins, with Jenkins becoming the full team owner in 2005. Front Row fielded #37 as a part time car along with it’s full time #34 & #38. Drivers included Tony Raines  with 29 starts, Kevin Lepage  with 22 starts, David Gilliland  19 starts, Travis Kvapil 6 starts, Scott Speed  3 starts, Josh Wise  3 starts, and Bill Elliott  3 starts.


In 2013 & 2014, Tommy Baldwin Racing used #37 in limited starts as a teammate to the normal #36 car. Mike Bliss , J.J. Yeley , Dave Blaney, and Bobby Labonte  have all made starts.


For 2017, Chris Buescher got behind the wheel of a second entry by JTG Daugherty Racing, car #37. Buescher had a rough start to the season, but he seemed to hit his stride in the late summer, earning 4 top-10 finishes at Daytona, Indianapolis, Michigan, and Kansas.

In 2018, Chris Buescher would score two Top 5 at both the February Daytona 500 race, and the July Daytona night race. These 2 top 5  would be his only top 10 finishes in 2018, finishing 11th-13th position 4 times. He would DNF 3 times in 2018, once due to transmission failure. Chris would finish 24th in Monster Energy Cup Series points, 2 positons behind JTG teammate A.J. Allmendinger.

In 2019, Buescher scored the first consecutive Top 10 finishes of his Cup Series career, as he followed up a 10th-place finish at the 2019 Digital Ally 400 at Kansas Speedway with a sixth-place result at the 2019 Coca-Cola 600. On September 25, 2019, Roush Fenway Racing announced that Buescher would replace Ricky Stenhouse Jr. in the No. 17 Ford in 2020. Buescher started 108 races in #37.


In 2020 Ryan Preece  took over the #37 car, after moving over from the JTG #47. Preece had a difficult season, scoring only 2 top-10s (Fall Bristol and Fall Talladega) but 4 last place finishes.


Don Tarr  made 24 starts in #37 from 1979-1981.


Tiny Lund  found his success driving #55 and the Wood Bros #21, but early in his career he made 20 starts in #37 from 1955-1958.


Mike Alexander  stared the #37 car 19 times in 1981. Larry McReynolds was a crew member on Alexander’s car before landing his first crew chief gig in 1985.


Bobby Isaac  only made 7 career starts in #37 from 1967-1968, but in those 7 starts he earned the only win the number claims. He won at Columbia Speedway in South Carolina in 1968.


Other notable names in #37

  • Mike Skinner, 8 starts

  • Kevin Conway, 6 starts.

  • Donnie Allison, 5 starts.

  • Charlie Glotzbach , 5 starts

  • Neil Bonnett, 3 starts

  • Rick Carelli, 3 starts

  • Wally Dallenbach Sr. , 2 starts

  • Patty Moise, 2 starts

  • Todd Bodine, 2 starts

  • Jim Paschal, 1 start.

  • Mark Martin, 1 start.

  • Jimmy Spencer, 1 start.

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