{"id":28350,"date":"2020-12-05T18:18:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T18:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/drivers\/jimmie-johnson\/"},"modified":"2023-11-08T13:44:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T13:44:26","slug":"jimmie-johnson","status":"publish","type":"driver","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/drivers\/jimmie-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmie Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n<section class=\"hero hero--small-image\">\n    \n            \n<section class=\"c-site-breadcrumbs site-breadcrumbs proxima \">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <nav class=\"breadcrumbs\"><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/\">Home<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/nav>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n    \n    <div class=\"hero__content\">\n        <div class=\"container\">\n                            <div class=\"circular-image\">\n                                            <picture>\n            <source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"\" >\n            <img decoding=\"async\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" alt=\"johnson2\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/johnson2-200x200.jpg\" srcset=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\"  \/>\n        <\/picture>\n                                    <\/div>\n                        <h1 class=\"hero__title sanomat\"><\/h1>\n                                <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"anchor-menu container-no-breakpoints proxima\">\n    <ul>\n                    <li><a href=\"#biography\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Biography<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#championship-seasons\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Championship Seasons<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#non-championship-races\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Non-Championship Races<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#teams\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Teams<\/a><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n<\/section>\n\n<div class=\"container\" id=\"biography\">\n            <div class=\"post__item\">\n                <div class=\"js-react\" data-behaviour=\"driver-data-box\" data-driver-id=\"28350\"><\/div>\n                <\/div>\n        <aside class=\"sidebar\" data-target=\"ad-container\">\n            <aside class=\"broadcast-space \">\n            <div class=\"broadcast-space__element\" id=\"div-gpt-ad-1563288058060-3\" data-behaviour=\"ad-target\"><\/div>\n    <\/aside>\n        <\/aside>\n    <\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" id=\"full-biography\">\n    \n        \n        <section class=\"c-expanding-content expanding-content expanding-content--expandable content-section toggle\">\n            <p>Stock car racing\u2019s\u00a0most recent\u00a0superstar,\u00a0New York based Californian\u00a0Jimmie Johnson became the first driver to win five NASCAR Cup titles in a row in 2010. He then\u00a0tied Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt as a seven time champion\u00a0before announcing his retirement at the end of the 2020 season.\u00a0The introduction of the Chase for the Cup\u00a0saw\u00a0Johnson come alive as soon as that 10-race championship shoot-out began.<\/p>\n<p>From motocross at the age of five and six off-road championship victories, the young Johnson was also always competitive. He made his debut in the second division Busch Series in 1998 and won for the first time at Chicagoland in 2001.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NASCAR debut for Hendrick Motorsports\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He also made his first three Cup starts that year in Rick Hendrick\u2019s Chevrolet Monte Carlo and he continues with the team today. His 2002 campaign began with pole position for the Daytona 500 in only his fourth start and he scored the first of three victories at Fontana in round 10. The first rookie to lead the championship since 1965 and fifth in the final standings was not enough to be named as 2002 Rookie of the Year however for Ryan Newman beat him to that accolade.<\/p>\n<p>The arrival of a new superstar was confirmed at the following May\u2019s Charlotte meeting when he won both the non-championship All-Star race and rain-shortened Coca-Cola 600. He won more races and pole positions than 2003 champion Matt\u00a0Kenseth\u00a0but Johnson finished as runner-up.<\/p>\n<p>He lost out to Kurt Busch by just eight points (the equivalent of a 36th-place finish) a year later despite eight victories that included another Coca-Cola 600 win and victory in Darlington\u2019s Southern 500. Team-mate to four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon, Johnson gradually eclipsed his friend and colleague.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NASCAR champion five years in a row\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Victory in the Coca-Cola 600 for a third year in 2005, Johnson added the blue ribbon Daytona 500 to his c.v. at the start of 2006. That was the prelude to his first NASCAR Cup title as he beat Kenseth and Denny Hamlin to the championship. Success breeds success and Johnson\u2019s 2007 campaign gathered momentum as the year wore on \u2013 10 victories ensured that he overhauled Gordon in the Chase to retain the Nextel Cup for the first time.<br \/>\nThere was a perceived inevitability to the next two seasons as Johnson repeated his championship success in the renamed Sprint Cup. First he\u00a0equalled\u00a0Cale Yarborough\u2019s then record three-in-a-row before he bettered it in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>He scored his 50th NASCAR victory during 2010 but cracks in the apparent\u00a0Johnson\/Gordon partnership showed later that year when they clashed in successive races. Hendrick shut down a\u00a0public war of words and Johnson withstood pressure from Hamlin and Kevin Harvick to win NASCAR title number five.<\/p>\n<p>Every run has to come to an end and Johnson won just twice during 2011 to finish only sixth in the championship as Tony Stewart claimed the title. Back on form in 2012, Johnson battled Penske\u2019s Brad Keselowski for the title. He scored back-to-back wins during the Chase (both from pole position) to lead the championship with two rounds to go. However, a puncture at Phoenix and engine failure in the Homestead finale dropped him to third in the final points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Johnson&#8217;s sixth\u00a0and seventh\u00a0titles\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having missed out on the title for the past couple of seasons, Johnson won six times during 2013 to\u00a0beat\u00a0Kenseth\u00a0and\u00a0clinch his sixth NASCAR title\u00a0at the final race at Homestead.\u00a0He recovered from a slow start to 2014 to win the Coca-Cola 600 for a fourth time and register his first victory at Michigan.\u00a0A new knockout Chase for the Cup was introduced that year and he\u00a0dominated at Texas. But\u00a0Johnson\u00a0was eventually eliminated from that end-of-season title decider\u00a0and\u00a0officially classified 11th in what was his lowest championship position since he had raced fulltime.<\/p>\n<p>He won five times during\u00a0both\u00a02015 and\u00a02016 as he continued his unbroken run of qualifying for the\u00a0end-of-season\u00a0Chase. His 2015 hopes ended when he retired at Dover but he prevailed in the following year&#8217;s Homestead decider to match Petty and Earnhardt&#8217;s seven Cup titles.\u00a0That outcome had seemed unlikely during a mid-season 24-race winless streak and when forced to start the finale from the back of the grid. But he worked his way through the field and he took the lead on the final restart to snatch the spoils.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent seasons and retirement plans\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He remained with Hendrick for 2017 and won three times to take his tally to 83 victories. However, he crashed into Jamie McMurray after his brakes failed at Pocono with his rival&#8217;s car engulfed in flames. Johnson\u00a0qualified for the Chase once more but was classified tenth after a couple of costly accidents. Winless in 2018 and 2019, Johnson announced that 2020 would be his last NASCAR season before retirement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IndyCar\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Johnson announced in 2020 that he would be driving in IndyCar on a part-time basis for Chip Ganassi Racing in 2021 and 2022. He will be competing in street and road courses.<\/p>\n\n                            <div class=\"expanding-content__buttons\">\n                                            <a href=\"#\" class=\"button button--outline button--chevron-down expanding-content__more\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Read full bio<\/a>\n                        <a href=\"#\" class=\"button button--outline button--chevron-up expanding-content__less\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Read Less<\/a>\n                                    <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n\n                                \n   <\/div>\n\n<section class=\"content-section content-section--no-padding-bottom database-table-collapsible toggle open\" id=\"championship-seasons\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"js-react\" data-behaviour=\"driver-seasons-table\" data-driver-id=\"\"><\/div>            <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"content-section content-section--no-padding database-table-collapsible toggle open\" id=\"non-championship-races\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        \n<header class=\"content-header content-header--alt\">\n\n    <h2 class=\"content-header__small-title sanomat u-bold \">\n                Non Championship Races\n    <\/h2>\n\n    <div class=\"content-header__dropdown database-table-collapsible__toggles proxima\">\n        <a href=\"#\" class=\"database-table-collapsible__more\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Show<\/a>\n        <a href=\"#\" class=\"database-table-collapsible__less\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Hide<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/header><div class=\"js-react\" data-behaviour=\"driver-races-table\" data-driver-id=\"\"><\/div>            <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"content-section content-section--no-padding database-table-collapsible toggle open\" id=\"teams\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        \n<header class=\"content-header content-header--alt\">\n\n    <h2 class=\"content-header__small-title sanomat u-bold \">\n                Teams\n    <\/h2>\n\n    <div class=\"content-header__dropdown database-table-collapsible__toggles proxima\">\n        <a href=\"#\" class=\"database-table-collapsible__more\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Show<\/a>\n        <a href=\"#\" class=\"database-table-collapsible__less\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Hide<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/header><div class=\"js-react\" data-behaviour=\"driver-teams-table\" data-driver-id=\"\"><\/div>            <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n                            <section class=\"c-broadcast-space content-section block_5fc172d85c387_leaderboardtop div-gpt-ad-1563288058060-1\" data-target=\"ad-container\">\n            <div class=\"container container--full-mobile\">\n                <aside class=\"broadcast-space \">\n            <div class=\"broadcast-space__element\" id=\"div-gpt-ad-1563288058060-1\" data-behaviour=\"ad-target\"><\/div>\n    <\/aside>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n    \n\n    <section\n        class=\"c-latest-products latest-products content-section\"\n        data-behaviour=\"tag-automation\"\n        data-automation-type=\"related-products\"\n        data-tags=\"[&quot;Jimmie Johnson&quot;]\"\n        data-current-post=\"28350\"><\/section>\n\n\n        <section class=\"c-article-listing article-listing content-section\">\n        <div class=\"container\">\n            <header class=\"content-header\">\n    <div class=\"content-header__intro user-content\">\n        <h1 class=\"content-header__title sanomat\">Related articles<\/h1>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"content-header__button\">\n            <a class=\"button button--outline button--full\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\">\n                View all\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"content-section__inner-content container\">\n            <div class=\"article-grid article-grid--no-ads\">\n                <div class=\"article-grid__wrapper\">\n                    <div class=\"article-grid__nested-grid\">\n                        <div class=\"article-grid__column\">\n                                                            \n\t\n\n<article class=\"article-item \">\n\n\t\n\t\t<a class=\"article-item__link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/articles\/single-seaters\/f1\/mph-antonelli-vs-russell-is-this-f1s-next-epic-title-battle\/\">\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"article-item__image article-item__image--cropped\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<picture>\n            <source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/George-Russell-and-Kimi-Antonelli-look-across-at-each-other-at-the-2026-F1-Japanese-Grand-Prix-450x253.jpg.webp 450w\" >\n            <img decoding=\"async\" height=\"253\" width=\"450\" alt=\"MPH: Antonelli vs Russell &#8211; 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The circuit attracted celebrities, vast concerts and a record-breaking Evel Knievel jump but, laments <strong>Matt Bishop<\/strong>, the 1971 Questor Grand Prix would be the only F1 event before the bulldozers moved in<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"article-item__meta proxima\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"article-item__date\" datetime=\"2026-03-31\">31st March 2026<\/time>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"article-item__author\">By\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Bishop<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\n<\/article>\n                                                                                            \n\t\n\n<article class=\"article-item \">\n\n\t\n\t\t<a class=\"article-item__link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/articles\/single-seaters\/f1\/bearman-crash-has-cornered-the-fia-into-action-but-what-can-it-do\/\">\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"article-item__image 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