Before the Winston Cup got changed to the Nextel Cup, Matt Kenseth won the title, thereby making him the last person to officially win the Winston Cup. Matt Kenseth is a 35 year old Roush Fenway professional race car driver who was born in Wisconsin and has been racing since he was 16. How Matt Kenseth got started with his racing career was through his own initiative to get his father to buy a car and to have him race it as soon as he was old enough to do so.
Matt Kenseth won his first race at the same age when he won on the third night of his debut in stock car racing. Finishing high school, Kenseth would then work for a race car chassis manufacturer and went back to racing in 1994. He won a few races between 1994 and 1996 and soon entered the arena of Busch Series racing. Matt Kenseth started his NASCAR racing career as a part time driver. He soon became a replacement driver for injured Tim Bender and drove the #17 Ford Fusion to 2nd place in the series in 1998.
In the same year, 1998, he debuted for the Nextel Cup which was then called the Winston Cup, and by the year 2000 with his whole team under the Roush racing team's organization, he got for himself the Rookie of the Year Award for the Winston Cup. Matt Kenseth was getting there and in 2003 he did get there by winning the Winston Cup for that year. While Matt Kenseth has quite a number of critics for the way he drives, which a lot of racing fans and critics call too conservative, Kenseth still manages to do good on the track with an impressive 4th place finish in the 2007 Nextel Cup.
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