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Jimmie Kenneth Johnson is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 84 Toyota Camry XSE for Legacy Motor Club, and part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 1 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro for Tricon Garage. Johnson has won seven Cup championships, including five consecutive titles, tying him with…
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entertainment · American racing driver (born 1975) · racing automobile driver · film actor · also Jimmie Johnson, Jimmie Kenneth Johnson, Johnson
Born 17 September 1975 · Q217238
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s home is in Charlotte, N.C., and visits to Manhattan are sporadic, so one-on-one time with his trainer is rare. Typically, Johnson e-mails or faxes his training logs to Sitaras in New York, with detailed feedback on the ease or difficulty of each set, the number of repetitions completed and any observations as to his performance. Mark Martin , whose demanding fitness regimen has long been the Sprint Cup Series
If you look through the garage area, the majority of the drivers, if not all, are on some type of training program. What I was doing [before] was working for where I wanted to be at that point. But to be the best and to stay on top, I had to find a way to step it up.
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“s home is in Charlotte, N.C., and visits to Manhattan are sporadic, so one-on-one time with his trainer is rare. Typically, Johnson e-mails or faxes his training logs to Sitaras in New York, with detailed feedback on the ease or difficulty of each set, the number of repetitions completed and any observations as to his performance. Mark Martin , whose demanding fitness regimen has long been the Sprint Cup Series”
“If you look through the garage area, the majority of the drivers, if not all, are on some type of training program. What I was doing [before] was working for where I wanted to be at that point. But to be the best and to stay on top, I had to find a way to step it up.”
“s proof that nobody has any idea who will win the title.”
“Kurt knocked me out of the way. At that point, I thought, I don”
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Published video “Back Where It All Started...and Back Behind The Wheel”.
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Published video “Inside My Indianapolis 500 Weekend | Alec Pierce, Terry Crews, and the Fastest Seat in Sports”.
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Published video “Built for San Diego: Revealing My Special No. 84”.
Published video “Stuck In The Desert For 20 Hours...and other stories from my racing roots!”.
Published video “We Roasted Dario Franchitti Before His Race”.
Published video “Surprise Roast”.
Published video “My Debut At The Mint 400”.
Published video “Mint 400 Finish Line”.
Published video “2026 Mint 400 - LIVE In Car Experience”.
Published video “Mint 400 Driver Swap”.
Johnson was named majority owner of Legacy Motor Club, with Knighthead Capital Management purchasing a minority stake and former co-owner Maury Gallagher stepping back into an ambassador role
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Legacy Motor Club announced they would withdraw his entry from the race due to the tragedy
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Johnson's in-laws were involved in a possible murder-suicide at their house in Muskogee, Oklahoma
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Johnson made the Daytona 500 entry field by scoring the fastest lap among the non-chartered teams
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The team was rebranded under the name Legacy Motor Club, with Johnson announced to be running the No
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Starting with an attempt to make the 2023 Daytona 500
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Johnson purchased an ownership stake in Petty GMS Motorsports
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Johnson announced that he would be stepping back from racing full-time
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“s first ever MLS draft pick, and the first overall draft pick of the 2022 MLS SuperDraft, when Charlotte drafted Ben Bender out of the University of Maryland, College Park. In popular culture Film and television appearances Johnson appeared as a moonshine runner along with Ryan Newman in the opening scene of the 2004 NASCAR 3D: The IMAX Experience. Johnson made an appearance as himself in the 2005 film Herbie: Fully Loaded, commenting on Herbie”
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Johnson announced that he would contest the full 2022 IndyCar schedule driving the No
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Ganassi's NASCAR operations were sold to Justin Marks and absorbed into the Trackhouse Racing Team the following year
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Johnson announced that he would join Chip Ganassi Racing on a part-time basis in 2021 and 2022 to drive the road and street courses on the IndyCar circuit
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It was overseen by CGR owner Chip Ganassi and five-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon (who is, along with Johnson, considered to be one of the best in their respective series) to discuss the car
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After testing negative twice, and he received a waiver that allowed him to remain playoff eligible should he qualify
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Two days before the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis, Johnson announced he had tested positive for the coronavirus, forcing him to miss the race and Justin Allgaier to take over the No
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Johnson participated in a test with IndyCar Series team Chip Ganassi Racing
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Johnson announced that the 2020 Cup season would be his last full-time season of racing, although he did not rule out a part-time schedule after that
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Following a string of disappointing finishes during the season, Hendrick Motorsports announced that race engineer Cliff Daniels would replace Meendering as the crew chief of the No
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Competed in the Boston Marathon, finishing with a time of 3:09:07 and 4,155th overall (3,746th among males and 641st in the Male 40–44 class)
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Johnson participated in a motorsports cultural exchange with two-time F1 champion Fernando Alonso at Bahrain International Circuit, where both drivers compared their respective race cars
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Lowe's announced it would no longer sponsor the No
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Johnson won his seventh championship, tying Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt for the most Cup Series championships of all time
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Johnson joined the Ban Bossy campaign, as a spokesperson advocating leadership in young girls
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Johnson began his season with a fourteenth-place finish in the 2013 Sprint Unlimited when he crashed on lap 14 along with Kyle Busch, Kurt Busch, Mark Martin, Jeff Gordon, and Denny Hamlin
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His highest finish in the Next Gen cars; his previous best was 26th at the 2024 season finale at Phoenix; and his highest finish since the 2020 Drydene 311 doubleheader at Dover
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Johnson started nnieteenth in the Aaron's 499 at Talladega, but finished 35th after suffering a broken oil pump belt on lap 62
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And a sixth-place finish in the Capital City 400 at Richmond one week later
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Johnson and his wife Chandra self-published a coffee table book titled On the Road, with photographs taken by Missy McLamb
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Before winning his sixth championship in 2013
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Had an engine failure early while leading at Talladega in the spring and was part of a crash on the last lap in the fall
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Johnson began the season with a fourth-place finish in the Budweiser Shootout, after starting from the 23rd position
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Included Auto Club, Las Vegas, where he passed Jeff Gordon with sixteen laps to go for the lead, Bristol, Sonoma, his first and only road course win, New Hampshire, and Dover
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To race in the Rolex 24 and Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen
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Awarded Associated Press Athlete of the Year (2009).
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Johnson moved to Bob Stallings Racing with Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty to race in the 2008 Rolex 24 at Daytona, where the team finished second
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Johnson opened Jimmie Johnson's Victory Lanes in Randleman, North Carolina, which is a four-lane bowling alley for campers at Pattie and Kyle Petty's Victory Junction Gang Camp
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And with further wins in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010, he became the first and only driver in NASCAR history to win five consecutive championships
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Johnson began the season by winning the Daytona 500
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Johnson won at Las Vegas, Lowe's Motor Speedway, Dover International Speedway, and then again at Lowe's
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Johnson started racing in Grand-Am with the 24 Hours of Daytona, where he finished eighth
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Following the plane crash that killed the son of Rick Hendrick, Ricky, along with nine others, the tail number of the Hendrick plane that crashed was added alongside Alexander's initials
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Johnson started slowly at Rockingham Speedway and Las Vegas Motor Speedway with results of 41st and sixteenth, after a top-ten finish in the Daytona 500
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Johnson finished ninth on the all-time list for consecutive weeks ranked in the top ten in points with 69
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Winless for the first time in his career, along with equaling a career-low eleven top-ten finishes for the second season in a row
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Which prompted NASCAR as a sanctioning body to require the use of the HANS device by every driver in its top three series, Johnson's car has had a flame decal with Alexander's initials inside of it at every race
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Johnson recorded one win at Chicagoland Speedway, and finished eighth in the point standings; his win at Chicagoland was his only win throughout his career at the track
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And Herzog moved their operations to the NASCAR Busch Series (now O'Reilly Auto Parts Series)
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With Herzog Motorsports before moving to a full-time schedule in 2000
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Johnson and his team, Herzog Motorsports, began stock car racing
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Johnson began racing on asphalt ovals when he ran three races in the American Speed Association (ASA), making his debut at Hawkeye Downs Speedway
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Johnson was given the opportunity to drive for Herb Fishel
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Born 1975-09-17.
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In El Cajon, California, the son of Catherine Ellen "Cathy" (née Dunnill) and Gary Ernest Johnson
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s first ever MLS draft pick, and the first overall draft pick of the 2022 MLS SuperDraft, when Charlotte drafted Ben Bender out of the University of Maryland, College Park. In popular culture Film and television appearances Johnson appeared as a moonshine runner along with Ryan Newman in the opening scene of the 2004 NASCAR 3D: The IMAX Experience. Johnson made an appearance as himself in the 2005 film Herbie: Fully Loaded, commenting on Herbie
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