The apex of any sport is a championship, and to claim the title in the Sprint Cup Series is to earn the highest reward there is in NASCAR. But championships alone do not necessarily equal greatness, as the ranks of those enshrined in and nominated for the NASCAR Hall of Fame will surely attest. In more recent times, there have been plenty of great drivers who never won a championship because of circumstances, or misfortunate, or because they had the bad timing of going up against the likes of Dale Earnhardt or Jimmie Johnson at their peak. The lack of one certainly didn't hurt Junior Johnson or Fireball Roberts from getting into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. More...