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Jimmie Johnson was voted fourth quarter Driver of the Year 2009 by a panel of broadcasters and journalists. Johnson, the Driver of the Year in 2006 and 2007, wrapped up his fourth- straight NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship then took 12 out of the 16 first-place votes and was the only driver on all ballots. He [...]
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December 04, 2009
Friday night at the annual NASCAR awards banquet, Jimmie Johnson will deliver a really boring speech. He'll thank his team, his family, his myriad sponsors, Rick Hendrick and Jeff Gordon. Ten seconds after it's over, people will forget that he gave a speech in the first place and the legend of the Vanilla Racer will live on. Want to punch up your image, Jimmie? Here's the speech...
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December 02, 2009
They couldn't derail the four-time Cup champ on the racetrack. But the Chase drivers did make Jimmie Johnson squirm plenty at the celebrity roast Wednesday in Vegas.
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December 04, 2009
NASCAR drivers tell jokes at the expense of four-time defending Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson. (NBC Sports)
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December 03, 2009
Jimmie Johnson will step in front of the cameras again on Friday night, capping a two-week, whirlwind publicity tour. But, Tom Bowles wonders, is too much JJ really a good thing?
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December 04, 2009
Juan Pablo Montoya and Tony Stewart appear to have put their Homestead feud behind them. During a panel discussion this week in Las Vegas, Jimmie Johnson suggested that Montoya and Stewart hug it out. Montoya posed sarcastically for a hug, Tony offered him a hand and they gave each other a brief shake. Then Stewart snuck in the line of the day...
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December 02, 2009
Four-time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson will compete in the Rolex 24 at Daytona, officials announced on Wednesday.
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December 03, 2009
Four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson will kick off his 2010 racing season at Daytona International Speedway in the Rolex 24 At Daytona on Jan. 30-31, the prestigious twice-around-the-clock challenge and the ultimate test of driver and machine.
For the third straight year, Johnson will co-drive the # 99 GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing entry [...]
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December 02, 2009
[Editor's note: Reader Trevor Brownell attended Monday night's "Jimmie Jam" in Santee, California, celebrating Jimmie Johnson's fourth championship. Here's his report. -JB] At first, all I knew about "Jimmie Jam" was that Jimmie would be attending an event
at his hometown Lowe's store after visiting his elementary school in
Crest, where he...
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December 02, 2009
Baseball has Peter Gammons. Football has Peter King. NASCAR had David Poole, until April 28, 2009. WHAT HAPPENED?A heart attack took the life of Poole, who spent 13 years covering the sport for the Charlotte Observer. Poole also hosted a radio show on Sirius/XM. While there are dozens of writers who pull double duty, few if any earn comments like this one from an athlete as...
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December 04, 2009
They said Jimmie Johnson was boring. Didn't like to put on a show.
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December 03, 2009
Despite winning a record four straight NASCAR championships, Jimmie Johnson is still, in the words of friendly rival Denny Hamlin, “underappreciated” in some circles.
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December 05, 2009
Rick Hendrick capped a record-making season Friday night with NASCAR's highest award, and the car owner had to stop to compose himself during the annual awards ceremony that honored driver Jimmie Johnson's fourth consecutive title.
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December 03, 2009
Now that the NASCAR season is done and everyone can relax a bit, we're starting to have a little more fun from our loosened-up drivers. Normally welded-down, they're starting to enjoy themselves with the grind of weekly racing done for a couple months.Case in point: Wednesday night's roast of Jimmie Johnson, one which -- if we can judge by this article by Terry Blount -- was more...
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December 05, 2009
Rick Hendrick capped a record-making season Friday night with NASCAR's highest award, and the car owner had to stop to compose himself during the annual awards ceremony that honored driver Jimmie Johnson's fourth consecutive title.
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December 02, 2009
Let me start off with what we call a disclaimer. Just before the season finale for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Homestead-Miami Speedway, I was asked by a PR guy with NASCAR to do a NASCAR giveaway here on RaceDriven.com, the two prizes were a subscription to NASCAR Trackpass that was good for one year from activation and the second prize was a NASCAR Prize Pack that included...
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