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Career Highlights
  • Four-time Indy Car National Champion (1965, 1966, 1969, 1984)
  • Formula One World Champion (1978)
  • Daytona 500 winner (1967)
  • Indianapolis 500 winner (1969)
  • Three-time Indianapolis 500 pole winner (1966, 1967, 1987)
  • Pikes Peak Hill Climb winner (1969)
  • Three-time 12 Hours of Sebring winner (1967, 1970, 1972)
  • USAC National Dirt Track Champion (1974)
  • International Race of Champions (IROC) Champion (1979)
  • Only driver to be named Driver of the Year in three different decades (1967, 1978, 1984)
  • Named Driver of the Quarter Century (1992) by vote of past Drivers of the Year and a panel of 12 journalists
  • Named Driver of the Century by The Associated Press (December 10, 1999)
  • Named American Driver of the Century by RACER magazine (January, 2000)
  • All-time leader in Indy Car pole positions won (67)
  • All-time Indy Car lap leader (7,595)
  • All-time leader in Indy Car race starts (407)
  • All-time leader in wire-to-wire Indy Car victories (14)
  • Second all-time in Indy Car victories (52)
  • Only driver ever to win Indy Car races in four decades
  • Oldest race winner in Indy Car history, with 1993 victory at Phoenix at age 53
  • Only driver to win the Indy 500, Daytona 500 and the Formula One World Championship
  • From 1961 to 2000, competed in 879 races, had 111 wins and 109 poles (includes all forms of motorsports)
Career Wins / 111 total

  • 52 Indy Car victories (USAC and CART)
  • 12 Formula One victories (FIA)
  • 9 Sprint car victories (USAC)
  • 9 Midget victories (ARDC, NASCAR and USAC)
  • 7 Formula 5000 victories (SCCA/USAC)
  • 7 World Sports Car victories (FIA)
  • 5 Dirt Track victories (USAC)
  • 4 Three-Quarter Midget victories (ATQMRA)
  • 3 IROC victories
  • 2 Stock car victories (NASCAR and USAC)
  • 1 Non-championship race