All of those little mistakes and little moments gave me a sense of the car and helped me feel really how to drive this car, how to create speed. To be able to get enough laps in the race, to feel the tires from start to finish, green flag stops, being in dirty air, just how uncomfortable and treacherous that is. He finished fifth overall in 2005 before starting his dominant run the following season.“What a two-day adventure this has been. He finished second in the standings in 2003, with three victories, and did the same in 2004, when he won a series-best eight times. Two of those victories came at Dover International Speedway in Delaware, making him the first rookie in series history to sweep both races at a track and the first to lead the point standings (for one week). In 2002 he began his rookie season in the Cup Series, winning three races and ending the season ranked fifth. (The series was subsequently renamed, in 2004, the Nextel Cup Series and, in 2008, the Sprint Cup Series.) He also earned his first Busch Series win in 2001, at Chicagoland Speedway, winding up eighth in that series’s point standings. On October 7, 2001, Johnson finished 39th (out of 43 drivers) in his first appearance in NASCAR’s top series, the Winston Cup Series.
When Herzog Motorsports lost its sponsor in 2000, Johnson was recommended to Hendrick Motorsports by NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon.Īre you game? Go beyond basketball, baseball, and football to see what you know about chukkas, arnis, and batsmen. That same year, he began to race in NASCAR’s Busch Series and by 2000 was a member of Herzog Motorsports’ Busch team, finishing third in that season’s Rookie of the Year standings. He won six championships and was named Rookie of the Year in each of those leagues before moving on to the American Speed Association, where he took Rookie of the Year honours in 1998.
Eventually he turned to four-wheel vehicles and took up offroad racing, competing in leagues that included Short-Course Off-Road Drivers Association, SCORE International, and Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group. Johnson, who started competing in motor sports at age five, won his first championship in motorcycle racing at eight years old.
Jimmie Johnson, in full Jimmie Kenneth Johnson, (born September 17, 1975, El Cajon, California, U.S.), American race-car driver who won seven National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing ( NASCAR) championships and was the first driver to win the title in five consecutive years (2006–10).
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