1,000 Greatest Drivers: Louis Chevrolet

Today, we salute the man who made William Byron backing into the Championship 4 possible.

Today in celebration of NASCAR’s decision to penalize Christopher Bell for his illegal wall ride thereby allowing Chevrolet driver William Byron to back into the Championship 4 in the NASCAR playoffs, we commemorate the man who helped make all this possible. I kid, I kid. I’m not going to say Bell’s penalty was unjustified, but there were so many shenanigans at the end of that race that I don’t really want to think about it anymore. I planned on releasing this on the anniversary of the foundation of the car company. I had this mostly written last night but I didn’t quite finish, so I will try to write this post and finish the Kevin Harvick post later today. I have to do a lot more research into this era so I might change the season grades a lot, but what I will say is that as far as this list is concerned, he’s lucky that he peaked in 1917 and 1918 when there was no racing in Europe due to World War I, which is why I rated him as highly as 2nd and 3rd in those years.