9 drivers who graced Victory Lane for Roush Fenway Racing

The history of Roush Fenway Racing in the Premier Series started in 1988 with Mark Martin as the team’s only driver in the No. 6 Ford. Over the years, Roush expanded to house as many as five teams at once and has won 136 races in the top tier of NASCAR.

The organization pared back to a two-car operation in 2017 with Trevor Bayne and Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. -- and Stenhouse earned the first Cup victory of his career last Sunday in the GEICO 500 at Talladega.

Roush's driver loyalty is a large part of the reason why there have only been nine different drivers who accumulated those 136 wins. Here they are: 

Stenhouse started from the pole at 'Dega, but had to come from behind -- pulling off a sweet last-lap pass of Kyle Busch -- to earn his first Cup victory in his 158th career start.

Stenhouse did earn eight race victories and back-to-back championships in what is now the NASCAR XFINITY Series while driving for Roush in 2011 and 2012 -- before he turned his full-time attention to Cup.

Ragan participated in 182 races with Roush Fenway Racing, making it to Victory Lane in 2011 at Daytona in the Coke Zero 400. The win came in Ragan’s final season driving the No. 6 for Roush. He’s the only other driver than Mark Martin to win in the 6-car for Roush.

Behind the wheel of the No. 26 Ford, McMurray captured two wins for Roush Fenway Racing, both at superspeedways. He first won the Pepsi 400 at Daytona in 2007 and then won the fall race at Talladega in 2009.

It was announced in 2000 that Busch would replace Chad Little in the No. 97 for Roush Racing. It took until his second full-time season in 2002 to find Victory Lane. After that Busch took off, winning 14 races in the next four seasons, including the 2004 Premier Series championship.

Burton found success quickly in the No. 99 with Roush and put together a stretch of top five points standings finishes from 1997 to 2000. He’d win 15 races over that stretch and add his final two with Roush in 2001.

Greg Biffle mutually parted ways with the team at the end of the 2016 season. Biffle is the only driver to win in the No. 16 for Roush, which will sit vacant in 2017. He finished in the top 10 in points six times while with Roush.

Along with Burton, Edwards helped elevate the No. 99 to the winningest car in the Roush stable. Edwards won four races in his first full-time season at Roush and posted a career-high nine wins for the team in 2008. He departed from Roush at the end of 2014.

Kenseth brought the No. 17 car back to relevance in NASCAR when he took the wheel full-time in 2000. In 2003, he won the NASCAR Premier Series championship while only winning one race. Like Edwards, Kenseth departed from Roush Fenway Racing for Joe Gibbs Racing after the 2012 season.

The first driver to win a race for Roush Fenway Racing also won the most races for Jack Roush. In 1988, the one-car team started with Martin as the driver and altogether raced in 617 races with 230 top fives and 361 top 10 finishes. Martin never captured a championship for Roush but posted top 10 finishes for 12 consecutive seasons in the points standings from 1989 to 2000.