Do you think championships are won mostly due to driver skill or crew chief?

May be...

Combination of the 2. Like they all say its a "total team effort"

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You gotta have both and Johnson and Knaus are both great............Teams better start doing thier homework or they are going to keep winning it.

Both you have to be good at both and have to work well together and Jimmie and Chad are a prefect example of that!

Both. No matter how good the crew Chief is if the driver is not an excellent driver.
Go down the list of drivers that have crew chiefs that have won championships with other drivers, yet they can't win with this driver. Sometimes barely stay in the top 15. Why?
Combination of things. Also has to do with the particular organization. What do they do and what people do they have behind the scene? It is a total package.

It is a mix of driver skill, crew chief and the entire pit crew.

Crew Chief matters mostly. You can have the best driver in the world BUT if that car isn't setup right he isn't going to win anything.

A combination of driver, car manufacturer, team owner, crew chief, pit crew, mechanics, spotter, timing and good old fashioned luck.

combination...
driver, crew, crew chief, and LUCK!!!

It takes both, just ask any driver OR crew chief that question and they will say it's because of the other. It's a true team effort that even goes beyond those two dynamics. Do you discredit Zippy because Smoke is an awesome driver or vice versa? How about Jeff and Ray? How about the King and Dale Inman? The list of examples can go on and on if you would like but what is your point? Both Jimmie and Chad are at the top of their craft and they are not going to fade anytime soon.
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