On the media tour one year (I'm not sure which year exactly) Rusty told us that his team's pit crew was going to set series records for pit times. I'm not sure we believed him, but he was right. And he won big.
Overall, Rusty ran in 522 races and won 37 of them in the 2 car and posted 145 top-5 finishes and 252 top-10s. He never won a NASCAR championship in the 2, but he did just about everything else.
Brad Keselowski is the second most successful driver in the 2, running 324 races and posting 29 wins, 114 top-5s and 180 top-10s. He won the 2012 NASCAR championship driving Penske's 2 car.
Other prominent drivers have won in the 2, including Kurt Busch (8 wins), Bobby Allison (7 wins), Dale Earnhardt (6 wins overall and a championship in 1980), Bill Blair (3 wins) and Tim Richmond (2 wins). Jim Paschal and all-time greats David Pearson and Herb Thomas each scored one win in the 2.
But Rusty was No. 1 when it came to the 2.
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