Career statistics of the NASCAR driver who won 2001 Talladega 500 and was the 2004 Craftsman Truck Series champion, Hamilton died Sunday of cancer.
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%% CIRCUIT,YEARS ST TITLES WINS T5 T10 AVG. ST AVG. FIN EARNINGS
Nextel Cup (’75-’05) 371 0 4 20 67 23.7 21.3 $14,384,415
Busch Series (’82-’05) 87 0 1 11 22 20.6 18.5 $413,218
Trucks (’96-’06) 102 1 10 33 54 — — $1,828,480
Grand National (’88-’01) 79 0 1 11 21 — — $337,068
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Four career NASCAR Winston Cup Series victories at 4 distinctly different tracks: Phoenix (Oct. 27, 1996); Rockingham, N.C. (Oct. 27, 1997); Martinsville, Va. (April 20, 1998) and Talladega, Ala. (Apr. 22, 2001).
Hamilton earned his first Winston Cup victory in 1996. The victory at Phoenix International was the same site of his first Winston Cup start (Nov. 5, 1989) as part of the filming of the “Days of Thunder” stock car racing movie
ST–starts; FIN-finishes
