Jimmie Johnson (born September 17, 1975 in El Cajon, California) is a NASCAR Nextel Cup race car driver who presently causes a #48 Lowe's Kobalt Chevrolet Monte Carlo owned by teammate Jeff Gordon and operated by Rick Hendrick's Hendrick Motorsports.

Background
Jimmie Johnson began his racing career around many off-road leagues including SODA, SCORE International and MTEG. He accumulated concluded Xxv wins & Centred top-3 ends & standard Cub of the Season honors all told triplet leagues.

Around 1998, Johnson joined the ASA circuit, finishing fourth in the Season when picking higher Greenhorn of the Year honors. When you took this instance, Johnson as well began racing in the NASCAR Busch Series, driving inside trio cases. Within 1999, Johnson continued to run around each a ASA & a Busch Series, winning twice & finishing third in the ASA point race. By 2000, Johnson became a Busch Series driver, finished 10th in the points standings & third in the Greenhorn of the Season standings. He won his foremost Busch Series race within 2001 at the Hills Brothers Coffee 300 at Chicagoland Speedway.

NASCAR NEXTEL Cup
2002 Season
By 2002, Johnson joined the Winston Cup series and within his cub campaign, he won threefold. He became a 1st cub around Winston Cup history to ever lead the point standings (he yet finished fifth overall). He too finished 2nd inside Cub of the Season honors to Ryan Newman.

2003 Season
For the 2003 campaign, Johnson had tierce triumph, Fourteen top-5 ends & Xx top-ten ends. He finished a year 2nd in the points standings to Matt Kenseth.

2004 Season
Within 2004, Johnson started slowly, using a select few early disappointments around weeks two and 3 at Rockingham and Las Vegas. Nevertheless, he quickly rebounded by having a week 5 win at the Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 at Darlington Raceway. Subsequent triumph at a Coca-Cola 600 and the Pocono 500 helped solidify his place in the NASCAR Chase for a Cup towards the prevent of the year. Even so, unfortunate ends at Talladega (37th) and Kansas (32nd) nearly sank his chances to win a Nextel Ventral suction cup, however quadruplet subsequent triumph put him Xviii points behind leader Kurt Busch going into the final race. A 2nd triumph at a Subway 500 in Martinsville, Virginia on October 24, 2004, was marred by tragedy when Rick Hendrick's boy, Ricky Hendrick, nieces and brother were flushed around an plane crash en route to the race. Tons eight rider & each pilots died in the incident. He finally finished 2nd in the Nextel Ventral suction cup, losing to Kurt Busch by just Eighter points.

Wins Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 at Darlington Raceway Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe's (Charlotte) Pocono D at Pocono Pennsylvania Five hundred at Pocono UAW-GM Quality 500 at Lowe's (Charlotte) Subway 500 at Martinsville, Virginia Bass In favor Shops/MBNA D at Atlanta Mountain Dew Southern D at Darlington

2004 Statistics 2nd Place within NASCAR Nextel Chase for the Cup Wins - 8 Top Five - 20 Top 10 - 23 Average Finish - 12

Hendrick Motorsports
Jimmie Johnson's car is operated by Hendrick Motorsports, a powerhouse around NASCAR throughout the 1990's & continuing now. His Crew Chief is Chad Knaus, who is around charge of working on a car on the day-after-day-to-day basis, & is around charge of all about that happens using the Lowe's #48 Team at the track.

Other Recent Events
Johnson has besides participated inside a select few extra-recent off-road cases, including a winning cause using Team America at the 2002 Race of Champions. Johnson appeared there over agaaround in 2004.