List of NASCAR Panasonic Cup Series champions (Johnsonverse)

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The NASCAR Panasonic Cup Series Drivers' Championship is awarded by the chairman of NASCAR to the most successful NASCAR Panasonic Cup Series racing car driver over a season, as determined by a points system based on race results. The Drivers' Championship was first awarded in 1949 to Red Byron. The first driver to win multiple Championships was Herb Thomas in 1951 and 1953. The current Drivers' Champion is Tony Stewart, who won his sixth NASCAR Panasonic Cup Series championship in 2020.

The NASCAR points system has undergone several incarnations since its initial implementation. Originally, races awarded points by a complicated system based upon final positioning and weighted by prize money purses, such that higher-paying events gave more points. Soon after the advent of the modern era in 1972, the championship was decided by a more basic cumulative point total based solely upon a driver's finishing position in each race. In order to reduce the possibility of a driver clinching before the final event, NASCAR implemented the "Chase for the Cup" in 2004 which, with minor modification from 2004 to 2013 stood as the format. It reverted to the previous format in 2014.

Overall, thirty-four different drivers have won the Championship, with Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt holding the record for most titles at seven. Jimmie Johnson has the record for most consecutive Drivers' Championships, winning five from 2006 to 2010. Thus far, every champion has originated from the United States.