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JIMMIE JOHNSON 2011

STARTS: 31 WINS: 2 TOP 5: 13 TOP 10: 20
CURRENT DRIVER POINT STANDINGS: 8th (-35)
FINISH IN CHARLOTTE: 34th 2010 FALL FINISH AT TALLADEGA: 7th

NEWS

Johnson will drive the No. 48 MyLowe’s paint scheme in Talladega. MyLowe’s is an integrated online tool on Lowes.com that helps keep track of everything in your home. Users will never have to remember paint colors, warranty information or room dimensions again. When using the My Lowe’s card, purchases will all automatically upload to the users MyLowe’s site and can be customized from there. Johnson also will run the scheme in Martinsville and Texas.

RACE NOTESTalladega Superspeedway

•	Johnson has made 19 Sprint Cup Series starts at Talladega Superspeedway, where he has two wins, five top-five and nine top-10 finishes.
•	Johnson has completed 96.3% (6468 of 3601) of competition laps at the 2.66-mile track and has led 217.
•	He has an average start and finish of 9.8 and 16.4.

Chassis

•	Johnson will drive chassis No. 628 in Sunday’s restrictor-plate race. He won the April race at Talladega Superspeedway in that chassis.
•	Johnson finished fourth in backup chassis No. 618 in February’s Budweiser Shootout at Daytona International Speedway on Oct.

Primary Car History – Chassis No. 628

Date	Event	Start	Finish
02/20/2011	Daytona	23	27
04/17/2011	Talladega	2	1
07/02/2011	Daytona	8	20

Backup Car History – Chassis No. 618

Date	Event	Start	Finish
10/31/2010	Talladega	19	7
02/13/2011	Bud Shootout	17	4

JIMMIE JOHNSON QUOTES
YOU WON AT TALLADEGA SO DID YOU NOT WANT THE RULE TO CHANGE?
“I think with the new rules it’s a step to make us pass more. I don’t think we are going to be able to stay connected as long. Any time you put a bigger plate on the cars it allows for a larger closing rate with more opportunities to pass with more power. With that said, I don’t think the changes are large enough to have us not push. That threshold for pushing, the grip level is still so high at the race track that I don’t think it’s going to separate us yet but it should make for more passing. We see that more with a larger plate and then the fact that we can’t stay together we’re going to be changing, I don’t think we’ll be staying together as long we’ll be changing out more often which could lead to us being in a big pack like some of the fans want to see. We’ll get down there and see what happens. I don’t care what the rules are. I learned a long time ago to stop worrying about that stuff. I just go.”

SPRINT CUP SERIES CAREER NOTES
Career Wins

•	Johnson has 55 wins in his Sprint Cup Series career, his most recent coming at Kansas Speedway on Oct. 9, 2011.
•	The El Cajon, Calif.-native is currently tied with Rusty Wallace for eighth on NASCAR’s all-time wins list.
•	He is second in total wins among active drivers, behind Jeff Gordon (85).
•	Johnson needed only 296 starts to hit the 50 mark. Only three drivers have reached 50 victories quicker – Gordon (232), Darrell Waltrip (278) and David Pearson (293).
•	Johnson has won at least three Cup races a season since he posted his first victory in 2002. He is the only driver in the modern era to win at least three races in each of his first eight full-time seasons.
•	Johnson has won Sprint Cup Series races at all but five (Michigan, Chicago, Watkins Glen, Homestead, Kentucky) of the 23 tracks on which the series competes.
•	Johnson’s 10 wins in 2007 was the highest number recorded in a single season since Jeff Gordon posted 13 victories in 1998.
•	The four-consecutive wins scored by the No. 48 team in the 2007 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup ties a modern-era NASCAR record.

Career Poles

•	Johnson has collected 25 poles in his Sprint Cup career.
•	The championship driver has earned at least one pole a year since his first full-time season in 2002.
•	He had a career-high six poles in 2008.
•	Johnson’s most recent pole position was at Dover International Speedway on Sept. 24, 2010.

Career Starts

•	Johnson has finished in the top five in the Sprint Cup Series point standings each year since his first full season in 2002.
•	Johnson is the only driver to qualify for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup every year since the format was adopted in 2004.
•	In 358 Sprint Cup Series starts, Johnson has posted 147 top-five and 223 top-10 finishes.
•	He has a top-five finish at every track on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series circuit.
•	Johnson has led a total of 12,047 laps (of 103,194) in his Sprint Cup career, covering over 138,401 miles.
•	He has finished on the lead lap 279 times.

Career Recognition

•	Johnson was named by Forbes as the Most Influential Athlete in 2011.
•	In 2009, Johnson became the first race car driver to be named Male Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press in its 78-year history.
•	Voted Driver of the Year four times in his career (2006, 2007, 2008, 2010), Johnson joins Jeff Gordon as four-time winners of the prestigious award.
•	Johnson has won an ESPY for Best Driver four times, in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Jimmie Johnson – Talladega Superspeedway

Race Start Finish Laps Status Led 04/21/2002 1 7 188/188 Running 8 10/06/2002 1 37 173/188 Engine 0 04/06/2003 7 15 188/188 Running 65 09/28/2003 3 34 157/188 Engine 15 04/25/2004 8 4 188/188 Running 25 10/03/2004 16 37 157/188 Engine 35 05/01/2005 6 20 186/194 Accident 8 10/02/2005 9 31 158/190 Running 3 05/01/2006 16 1 188/188 Running 3 10/08/2006 3 24 187/188 Accident 6 04/29/2007 8 2 192/192 Running 12 10/07/2007 19 2 188/188 Running 6 04/27/2008 10 13 188/188 Running 1 10/05/2008 20 9 190/190 Running 3 04/26/2009 36 30 179/188 Accident 2 11/01/2009 1 6 191/191 Running 0 04/25/2010 1 31 194/200 Accident 9 10/31/2010 19 7 188/188 Running 2 04/17/2011 2 1 188/188 Running 14

* Dates in RED BOLD indicate Talladega Chase Race Results.

Race 6 of 10 – Chase Stats

Year	Track	Points Coming Into Event	Starting Position	Finishing Position	Points After Event
2004	Martinsville	8	18	1	4
2005	Martinsville	2	6	3	2
2006	Martinsville	7	9	1	3
2007	Martinsville	2	4	1	2
2008	Martinsville	1	1	1	1
2009	Martinsville	1	15	2	1
2010	Martinsville	1	19	5	1

Jimmie Johnson – 2011 Results

Date Race Start Finish Laps Status Laps Led Points Following Event 02/20/2011 Daytona 23 27 189/208 Running 0 25 02/27/2011 Phoenix 28 3 312/312 Running 19 13 03/06/2011 Las Vegas 14 16 267/267 Running 0 12 03/20/2011 Bristol 6 3 500/500 Running 164 7 03/27/2011 California 16 2 200/200 Running 3 5 04/03/2011 Martinsville 17 11 500/500 Running 65 3 04/09/2011 Texas 6 8 334/334 Running 0 4 04/17/2011 Talladega 2 1 188/188 Running 14 2 04/30/2011 Richmond 30 8 400/400 Running 0 2 05/07/2011 Darlington 19 15 370/370 Running 0 2 05/15/2011 Dover 1 9 400/400 Running 207 2 05/29/2011 Charlotte 6 28 395/400 Engine 0 3 06/05/2011 Kansas 31 7 267/267 Running 0 2 06/12/2011 Pocono 14 4 200/200 Running 1 2 06/19/2011 Michigan 21 27 199/200 Running 0 5 06/26/2011 Infineon 12 17 110/110 Running 0 3 07/02/2011 Daytona 8 20 170/170 Running 0 6 07/09/2011 Kentucky 5 3 267/267 Running 0 5 07/17/2011 Loudon 28 5 301/301 Running 19 2 07/31/2011 Indianapolis 3 19 160/160 Running 1 2 08/07/2011 Pocono 18 4 200/200 Running 0 2 08/14/2011 Watkins Glen 4 10 92/92 Running 1 3 08/21/2011 Michigan 19 2 203/203 Running 18 2 08/27/2011 Bristol 13 4 500/500 Running 76 2 09/06/2011 Atlanta 17 2 325/325 Running 29 1 09/10/2011 Richmond 3 31 362/400 Running 38 2/6* 09/19/2011 Chicago 12 10 267/267 Running 39 8 09/25/2011 New Hampshire 10 18 300/300 Running 1 10 10/02/2011 Dover 6 2 400/400 Running 157 5 10/09/2011 Kansas 18 1 272/272 Running 197 3 10/15/2011 Charlotte 9 34 316/334 Accident 1 8

*Second in points after race. Points reset heading into Chase – Johnson 6th.

Jimmie Johnson – Year-by-Year Cup Statistics

Year	Starts	Wins	Top 5	Top 10	Poles	Final Points
2001	3	0	0	0	0	52
2002	36	3	6	21	4	5
2003	36	3	14	20	2	2
2004	36	8	20	23	1	2
2005	36	4	13	22	1	5
2006	36	5	13	24	1	1
2007	36	10	20	24	4	1
2008	36	7	15	22	6	1
2009	36	7	16	24	4	1
2010	36	6	17	23	2	1

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