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- Kurt’s 2004 championship was the closest in the history of NASCAR.
- Kurt led all but one of the ’04 season’s last 10 events at one time or another, and finished in the Top 10 nine times.
- Kurt's 2004 title was the second straight for Ford. The last time Ford won two straight NASCAR championships was in 1968-69, when David Pearson was the top driver twice in a row.
- Kurt won $5.2 million as NASCAR’s 2004 champion.
- When Kurt’s engine blew in Atlanta and Jimmie Johnson won the race, NASCAR conspiracy theorists claimed it was the organization’s way of tightening up the season-ending Nextel Chase.
- Kurt once drew the ire of the fans when he described Jimmy Spencer as a “loveable loser.”
- Kurt graduated from high school with a 3.6 GPA.
David Pearson, 1991
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