T. Taylor Warren NMPA Picture of the Year Award

National Motorsports Press Association

T. Taylor Warren NMPA Picture of the Year Award

This annual award is named after Thomas Taylor Warren, affectionately known as “T.” to his friends, who started his automobile racing photography career in the 1940s. NASCAR officials declared Lee Petty the winner of the inaugural Daytona 500 after viewing Warren’s photo of the finish. One of the few people to have witnessed every Daytona 500 before his death in 2008, Warren was perhaps the best known photographer on the NASCAR circuit. He was inducted into the NMPA Hall of Fame in 2009.

wdt_ID Year Recipient
1 2022 Will Lester
2 2021 John Harrelson
3 2019 Marc Gewertz
4 2018 Chris Anderson
5 2017 John Harrelson
6 2016 Mark Rebilas
7 2015 Mark Rebilas
8 2014 John Harrelson
9 2013 David Griffin
10 2012 Mark Rebilas
11 2011 Phil Abbott
12 2010 Michael Levitt
13 2009 Ladon George
14 2008 Mark Rebilas
15 2007 Tom Copeland
16 2006 Mark Sluder
17 2005 Worth Canoy
18 2004 Mark Sluder
19 2003 Walter Arce
20 2002 Tom Copeland
21 2001 Phil Cavali
22 2000 Tom Copeland
23 1999 Chad Fletcher
24 1998 Phil Cavali
25 1997 Phil Cavali