Jimmie Johnson’s swan song in NASCAR hasn’t exactly long gone consistent with thought thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic hasty shutting down carrying events, but for the total fetes he’s passed over alongside the ability up to now, there’s no suspending the calendar.
It’s 4/8, Jimmie Johnson Day for the athlete who has introduced primarily the most status to the amount 48.
For Johnson, Texas Motor Speedway has been a playground of sorts. His seven Cup Series wins, 1,152 laps led, 16 top fives, and 22 top 10s are all monitor data, and each take hang of has held a new significance for the 44-twelve months-dilapidated.
Dickies 500 – Nov. 4, 2007
On the rush’s closing pit pause, Johnson crew chief Chad Knaus known as for four tires to Matt Kenseth’s two. Johnson drove by with two laps to fling to protect conclude the take hang of, grabbing the Trot for the Championship lead over teammate Jeff Gordon on his ability to back-to-back Cup Series titles.
Quotable: “I expected a upright battle. I didn’t judge his two tires would last that lengthy or he’d be that upright. I’m correct happy I used to be as soon as in a position to win by. There wasn’t well-known time left to win it done.”
AAA Texas 500 – Nov. 4, 2012
Five years to the day after his first triumph at TMS, Johnson led 168 laps and took earnings of a warning with five to fling to actual the take hang of over Brad Keselowski. Correct treasure in 2007, Johnson’s crew took four tires on the last pause while Keselowski’s opted for 2, and it made the total dissimilarity.
Quotable: “It was as soon as an true rush. The gloves are off, and it’s bare knuckle fighting … warning came out and got an infinite restart and got by him. Knew we had the velocity if I may per chance per chance additionally correct win by him.”
AAA Texas 500 – Nov. 3, 2013
He was as soon as as dominant as he’d ever been at Texas in a success back-to-back in the monitor’s tumble playoff rush, main 255 laps and a success by more than four seconds. He increased his championship lead from two to seven over Matt Kenseth, and would actual Cup Series title amount six two weeks later.
Quotable: “I hope history doesn’t repeat itself. That’s the suited instance that this thing isn’t over till it’s over. Final twelve months we had eight huge races and two homely ones and didn’t win the championship. Important to enact stable and there are two critical races left.”
AAA Texas 500 – Nov. 2, 2014
The rush will consistently be remembered as the time Jeff Gordon and Brad Keselowski threw fingers in Texas, but it absolutely was as soon as the already-eliminated-from-the-playoffs Johnson who won, main 191 laps in the technique. Johnson took the lead on the Inexperienced-White-Checkered enact that saw Keselowski and Gordon make contact, ending Gordon’s day. JJ no longer the least bit regarded back, becoming the monitor’s Cup Series leader in wins and laps led. He also grew to turn out to be primarily the most crucial driver to take hang of the the same rush at Texas three straight times.
Quotable: “It was as soon as a Trot that was as soon as advanced for us but with the map to redeem ourselves and attain out of here with a victory is if truth be told, truly cool.”
Duck Commander 500 – Apr. 11, 2015
In the spring of 2015, Johnson eventually did something he hadn’t done at Texas Motor Speedway: take hang of in the spring. He had Kevin Harvick, and to a diploma Dale Earnhardt Jr., in hot pursuit in the closing 14 laps, but neither driver may per chance per chance additionally make a lag on the now five-time TMS winner. Johnson led 128 laps for the take hang of.
Quotable: “I lost my teach. I wakened with a cold this morning. We’ve had an true, true open to the twelve months. I know the outcomes don’t present it, but huge increase from our fans and our sponsors. We kept plugging away at it.”
AAA Texas 500 – Nov. 8, 2015
Four straight years he came to Texas Motor Speedway for the tumble playoff rush, and four straight years he left with the trophy. Johnson was as soon as handiest the seventh driver in NASCAR history to enact the feat, and he did it by spoiling primarily the most dominant performance in monitor history. Brad Keselowski led 312 laps, a amount quiet unmatched at No Limits, Texas, but the 48 reeled him in with four laps to fling and ran some distance flung from him for a 1.082-2nd margin of victory. He led correct six laps in the rush.
Quotable: “He got valid free off of two, I had a gargantuan rush off the tip, and I went for a gargantuan fling job into 3 and 4 more or much less treasure the Eldora stuff I learned and I got the take hang of.”
O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 – Apr. 9, 2017
The seven-time Cup champion formally grew to turn out to be seven-time a 2nd time alongside with his seventh take hang of at Texas, his first on the repaved and reconfigured surface on the monitor. The hydration procedure in Johnson’s automobile went out early in the rush forcing him to protect conclude three IV bags after the checkered flag, but he led the closing 17 laps for his most modern take hang of on the monitor.
Quotable: “I wager I remembered suggestions to pressure. Correct valid delighted with this crew. Refined monitor and stipulations. We had been truly in our wheelhouse and we had been in a position to carry out all day lengthy.”
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