Can Jimmie Johnson recover from his slump?

Slumping Johnson Welcomes Tricky Triangle This is strange territory for Jimmie Johnson, winner of four consecutive series championship. Johnson’s last three finishes – and four of the last five – have been outside the top 15. The slump has dropped Johnson from the points lead after Talladega, to his current seventh-place position. A turn-around could [...]

Alan Gustafson and Chad Knaus re-ink with Hendrick

RICHMOND, Va. (April 30, 2010) – Crew chiefs Alan Gustafson and Chad Knaus have signed multi-year contract extensions with Hendrick Motorsports, the organization confirmed Friday. During their tenure with Hendrick Motorsports, Gustafson and Knaus have become established crew chiefs in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Their teams finished the 2009 season ranked one-two in the [...]

Bristol Recap: Johnson Wins 50th Career

By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service BRISTOL, Tenn.—In a milestone race Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway, Jimmie Johnson—the last driver third-place finisher Kurt Busch wanted to see win the race—took the checkered flag for the 50th time in his NASCAR Sprint Cup career in the Food City 500. Taking four tires on his [...]

Video: 48 Car almost falls on Jimmie Johnson, Chad Knaus

Check out this video of Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus shooting a TV commercial, when suddenly the 48 car in the background falls.  Jimmie and Chad narrowly escape injury.  Or, this could all be contrived and purposely done to increase web traffic and to promote this weekends Kobalt Tools 500 in Atlanta.  That’s why we [...]

Jimmie Johnson’s 48 still THE team to beat

Johnson Back In Top 5 Well, that didn’t take long. After yet another year of Daytona 500 disappointment, Johnson righted his ship and has sailed into the point standings’ top five, on the strength of consecutive victories at Auto Club Speedway and Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Whenever Jimmie Johnson wins next, it’ll be his 50th [...]

Quick Cap: 48th Win for Driver 48

QUICK RECAP | AUTO CLUB SPEEDWAY 10 Greg Biffle 9 Tony Stewart 8 Clint Bowyer 7 Matt Kenseth 6 Kurt Busch 5 Joey Logano 4 Mark Martin 3 Jeff Burton 6th career top 5 at California 2 Kevin Harvick hit the wall in the closing laps, giving up the win, but takes over the points [...]

Media Picks Johnson to win 5th Championship

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Feb. 4, 2010) – It only took an unprecedented fourth consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship, but the media finally thinks Jimmie Johnson will defend his crown, according to a preseason media poll. Incredibly, this isn’t a typical outcome. Only once in the previous five preseason polls has Johnson been tapped as [...]

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