Jimmie Johnson made history today. He became the first person to win five straight Nascar Cup Championships. He is the first driver in the sixty-two year history of Nascar to win four and now five straight. He started the season not so hot but ended the season finishing with nine consecutive top ten finishes. Jimmie won his fifth straight in his three hundred and twenty-seventh start. Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick were the best drivers all year statistics wise but Johnson always finishes the season as the number one. It was no different this year as he came into the last race having to lead the most laps or placing better than the other two drivers and Johnson placed 2nd to win the Cup Championship for a record fifth straight. There was a lot of drama these last three weeks due to a lazy pit crew making owner Chad Knaus switch to his other driver Jeff Gordon's pit crew. This came to help Johnson not only in this race but the previous races because of shorter pit stops. Denny Hamlin had a hard time racing all day as he crashed early in race. He restarted at the thirty-seventh spot limiting his chances of winning finishing the race in the 14th spot. Kevin Harvick took the lead late in the race but was penalized for speeding coming into pit lane and was moved back to the twenty-ninth spot. Harvick was the leader and the best racer in Nascar this year until Johnson made his remarkable run. There has been seven Cup Championships and Jimmie is the only driver in Nascar to compete in all seven. He deserves this blog and deserves every award he has been given. The attended audience for this article would be for die hard Nascar fans and also for sports fans. The articles purpose is to show how great of a driver Jimmie Johnson has become and how winning his fifth straight title may have made him the best driver of all time.
http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/cup/news/story?id=5835698
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