NASCAR’s history is full of dominant stretches, but very few drivers have managed to win multiple races season after season without pause. Earlier this week, NASCAR highlighted those rare feats in a table ranking drivers with the longest streaks of consecutive years with multiple victories. At the top of the list was Richard Petty, who strung together 18 straight seasons of at least two wins between 1960 and 1977. The next one behind was Jimmie Johnson. The veteran’s 16-year run from 2002 to 2017 defined NASCAR’s modern era, with some considering his run even better than Petty’s. But the comparison isn’t that simple.

One cannot rule out the fact that not all wins came in the same competitive environment. Petty raced in an age when Cup schedules often featured more than 50 races. This gave

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