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Top 5 Roush Fenway Racing Sprint Cup Drivers

By Steve McCormick, About.com

Roush Fenway Racing team drivers won back-to-back NASCAR Sprint Cup Championships as Matt Kenseth won it all in 2003 and then teammate Kurt Busch won the 2004 crown. With one former Champion, one smoking fast veteran and three promising young faces on the team Roush Racing is positioned for NASCAR success now, and well into the future.

1. Matt Kenseth

Matt Kenseth's #17 DeWalt Ford is technically owned by his former teammate Mark Martin. Let there be no mistake though, the 2003 NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion is purely a Roush Racing star. Matt came off back-to-back second place Busch Series points finishes in 1998 and 1999 to score one win and eleven top ten finishes in 2000 on his way to beating out Dale Earnhardt Jr. for the 2000 Sprint Cup Rookie of the Year title.

2. Greg Biffle

Greg Biffle joined Roush Racing in 1998 as a rookie in the Craftsman Truck Series. He won the Rookie of the Year honors that year and then won the Truck Series Championship in 2000. 2001 saw him move up to the Busch Series and win Rookie of the Year honors again. He backed that up with a Busch Series Championship in 2002. He moved to Sprint Cup in 2003 and scored his first win under the lights in Daytona in July. Greg knows how to win NASCAR Championships and likely isn't done yet.

3. Carl Edwards

Carl Edwards joined Roush Racing as a Truck Series driver in 2003 and quickly added the Truck Series Rookie of the Year honors to his already impressive resume. He was the heir-apparent to the #6 car but when Jeff Burton left for another team in the middle of 2004 Jack Roush brought him up to drive the #99. Carl scored his first Sprint Cup win in March of 2005 in Atlanta.

4. Jamie McMurray

Jamie McMurray joined Roush Racing in 2006 to take over the ride vacated by Kurt Busch. The car number changed from #97 to #26 but this is the same team that won the 2004 Sprint Cup Championship.

McMurray hasn't yet lived up to his full potential at Roush Racing. Jack Roush is known to be patient with his drivers and will give Jamie some time to settle in. However, Jack is also used to winning. Jamie has the best equipment he will ever drive. It is time for him to prove himself.

5. David Ragan

David Ragan comes to Roush Racing without having ever run a full season in any of NASCAR's top three series. Ragan was the winner of the 2005 Roush Racing Gong Show where he impressed Jack Roush and the team enough to leapfrog his way into the Sprint Cup series. Ragan was tapped to replace the legendary Mark Martin in the number 6 car beginning in 2007.

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