A WINNING END FOR THE JIMMIE/HENDRICK EXPERIENCE?
After seven titles in 18 years at the top level, Jimmie Johnson starts his last full-time NASCAR Cup campaign at Daytona this weekend. It hasn’t all gone to plan over the past two seasons, where the now-44-year-old has gone winless. But he is hell-bent, convinced that a record-breaking eighth title is on the table this year, however unlikely that may sound.
Stadium Trophy Truck driver-turned-NASCAR dominator Johnson burst onto the scene full-time in 2002 and just a year later he finished second in the Cup standings, hailed as the young challenger to threaten superstar Jeff Gordon. Gordon himself helped Rick Hendrick set up the #48 team to launch Johnson
