When people think of NASCAR's rich history, most think of numbers like 43, 3, 24, 11, or maybe even 21. The #43 has won a total of 198 races in the history of the sport, 194 of them being won by Richard Petty. With over 1700 starts, no other car number has been used more frequently in the sport's history.Many people associate the #3 with the late, great Dale Earnhardt, who won 67 of his 76 career victories in cars bearing the number. However, the #3 was tearing up NASCAR long before the Intimidator was dominating in the '80s and '90s. Ray Fox owned some of the fastest cars of the 1960s under the #3 banner. Drivers like Junior Johnson, Buck Baker, and Buddy Baker all graced victory lane in Ray's #3s.The #24 was made famous by Jeff Gordon, and the #11 has been to victory lane with numerous drivers. So has the #21.Of all the many legendary numbers used in the history of the sport, I would bet that very few people think of the #70. It is, in fact, the forgotten number in NASCAR. The #70 has been on a NASCAR Cup car in 759 races during the sport's 61 year history, but not once has a driver visited victory lane with it. In fact, no other car number has been used in more races without winning at least one of them.Buck Baker was the first driver in history to use the number when he started, and finished, ninth on the Daytona Beach course on February 5, 1950. Since then, at least thirty-four other drivers have taken their turn using it. Drivers like nine-time race winner Cotton Owens, 1960 NASCAR champ Rex White, LeeRoy Yarbrough, Ralph Earnhardt, and more recently, Johnny Sauter, Ken Schrader, and Tony Raines have all tried to remove the '0' from the win column for #70... all have failed.The driver most associated with #70 is the legendary J.D. McDuffie. McDuffie first wore the number in a NASCAR race at Rockingham in 1966, and carried it for most of the rest of his career. For twenty-five years, J.D. was the symbol of what racing was used to be. He was an independent driver who raced for the love of the sport, doing the best he could with what he had every week. Against all odds, McDuffie soldiered on to record 653 career starts, never winning. His shining moment in NASCAR came when he won the pole for the 1978 Deleware 500 at Dover.When McDuffie lost his life in a crash at Watkins Glen in 1991, the number set dormant for twelve years, before West Coast driver Rick Bogart dusted it off and used it twice in 2003. It wouldn't be used again until 2006, when it was picked up by Haas Racing with Johnny Sauter at Lowe's Motor Speedway. He ran the entire 2007 season, with limited success. The bright spot to a dismal season was his fifth place finish at Richmond in September. That top five was just the fourteenth ever by a #70 car, and the first since McDuffie finished fifth at Nashville in 1979. In 2008, the Haas Racing team fielded several drivers in the #70 throughout the year, but none even came close to winning. When sponsorship dried up at the end of the season and the team was sold to Tony Stewart, the #70 was once again put up on blocks, leaving us to wonder when, or if, it will ever visit the elusive winner's circle where it belongs.