Car #50 has 324 total starts with 76 drivers, 0 wins, 5 poles, 11 top 5s, and 41 top 10s in the NASCAR Cup Series.

For the 1998 season Hendrick Motorsports changed the number of the #25 Budweiser Chevy to #50 in honor of NASCAR’s 50th anniversary. Ricky Craven  drove the #25 car the previous year and began 1998 in the seat. After 4 races Wally Dallenbach  and Randy Lajoie filled in for Craven when he missed several races due to concussion complications. Craven drove the car in 4 more races and won a pole at New Hampshire, but was permanently replaced by Dallenbach due to poor performance.

Ricky Craven  would return to the #50 midway through 1999, the number now fielded by Midwest Transit Racing. When Craven moved to the #32 for the 2001 season, Rick Mast would take over driving duties for car #50. Mast made 8 starts in 17 attempts in 2001. The team’s last start came at the 2001 Brickyard 400 with Rich Bickle behind the wheel. The team would suspend operations following the race.


Geoff Bodine  drove #50 in the 1982 season for 24 starts.


Greg Sacks  drove #50 for 24 starts between 1987-1988


Bruce Hill  has 19 starts in #50 from 1979-1981.


In 2012 Bill Elliott  drove the #50 in a one off race at the July Daytona event for Turner Motorsports. It did not go well .


In 2005 Jimmy Spencer  made 9 starts driving part time for Arnold Motorsports. Derrike Cope, Todd Bodine, and P.J. Jones also drove for the team.


AJ Foyt  drove the 50 Car in 6 Cup races, the most recent being 1994 at the inaugural Brickyard 400.

Daly returned to the team in 2023 for 2 races- The Daytona 500 and Circuit of the Americas, the teams only 2 starts of the season.


In 2022, The Money Team fielded car #50 in 4 races, 3 with Kaz Grala and one with IndyCar driver Conor Daly.


Other notable names in #50:

  • Gober Sosebee, 12 races.

  • Fred Lorenzen, 7 races

  • Joe Millikan, 6 races

  • Larry Foyt, 3 races

  • Mike Wallace, 3 races

  • Wendell Scott, 1 race

  • Johnny Beauchamp, 1 race

  • Al Unser, 1 race

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