Which driver won the 2011 Cup title by tiebreaker over Carl Edwards?

Tony Stewart won the 2011 NASCAR Cup title by tiebreaker over Carl Edwards.

Stewart and Edwards finished the season tied at 2,403 points, producing the first points tie in modern NASCAR Cup history. NASCAR’s tiebreaking procedure then awarded the championship to Stewart because he had more victories: five wins compared with Edwards’ one.

The result was especially dramatic because Stewart entered the Chase for the Sprint Cup without a victory, then won five of its ten races. Edwards had led the standings for much of the regular season and finished second in the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, but Stewart won the race and erased the deficit.

The championship was Stewart’s third as a driver and his first as an owner-driver for Stewart-Haas Racing. It was also the final Cup championship decided under that points-and-Chase format before NASCAR introduced its elimination-style playoff system in 2014.