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Last November, Jimmie Johnson (No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet) made track history by becoming the first driver to win three consecutive races at Phoenix International Raceway.

Three-time defending NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion and Prerace Driver Rating favorite Jimmie Johnson claimed his first win of the season with a late-race pass of Denny Hamlin at Martinsville Speedway. It was Johnson’s fifth win in the last six starts at the track.

Here are a few of the items that have crossed the wires in the last few hours. But first a couple related stories on NASCAR tracks and their promotion.

Pardon me if I have a bit of a chuckle over this, but it is comical. Jimmie Johnson sliced his left middle finger with a knife while in Daytona Beach, Fla., for the Rolex 24 where his team finished seventh in class.

While it always seems that Christmas rolls around faster than Carl Edwards can turn a lap at Bristol Motor Speedway, Yuletide is here again, and it’s time to speculate on what Santa might be putting under the tree for some of NASCAR’s favourite personalities.

NASCAR Sprint Cup runner-up Carl Edwards says he is excited about making his debut in the Race of Champions this weekend.

Maureen MacDonald of Raleigh, N.C. was recently crowned Mrs. America 2009, and is putting that title to use in raising donations for the Prevent Child Abuse America charitable organization. In October, Mrs. MacDonald was given exclusive access by Speedway Children’s Charities to the NASCAR drivers at the Bank of America 500, held at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte, N.C.

Day 2 of Champ Week featured Jimmie Johnson & Co. conducting photo shoots at various NYC landmarks, Honest, the landmarks are there. If you can see past the Sprint Cup trophy that seems to be the “star” of each image.

Champions Dinner at the Chef’s Table at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City on Monday night. The event kicked off Champions Week, which concludes Friday with the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards Ceremony.

Three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson will be the centerpiece of this week’s annual Champions Week celebration in New York City – a busy and joyful five days that marks the traditional end of each season.

Say what you will, but this off-season is unlike most others. Normally the three days proceeding Turkey Day are a race fans No MansLand and devoid of much news- not this year - it’s all business.

Sunday may have been Jimmie Johnson’s coronation as Sprint Cup Champion for the third time but it was Carl Edwards who may have proved he is “Sprint Cup Prince” waiting for the King to abdicate the throne.

David Reutimann and his No. 44 UPS Toyota won the Coors Light Pole Award for the FORD 400 with a lap of 31.462 seconds, 171.636 mph. This is his first pole in 63 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races.

NASCAR has suspended all testing at its sanctioned tracks next season in a cost-cutting measure that should help teams save several million dollars in their 2009 budgets.

It’s been a strange year for Jeff Gordon to say the least. He’s watched teammate Jimmie Johnson put on another Sprint Cup clinic and new arrival Dale Earnhardt Jr. take some of the media spotlight off the four-time Sprint Cup Champ.

Jimmie Johnson moved closer to an historic third consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship. Following are images from Sunday’s Checker O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.

More times than not the solutions offered to “Jimmy Proof” the Chase center on the ten Chase events and to a lesser extent something along the lines of a sucrose based mixture being introduced to the #48’s fuel tank.

With his seventh win of the season, Jimmie Johnson moved closer to an historic third consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Hear from him and runner-up Kurt Busch, who considers it a privilege to run with Johnson.

It has been suggested the phrase “it’s not over until the fat lady sings” was the brainchild of the San Antonio TV sports editor Dan Cook who famously used it during a televised basketball game.
It’s true origin is debatable. What’s not is its application to Jimmie Johnson’s dominating performance in the Arizona desert Sunday afternoon/early [...]

Denny Hamlin led the Happy Hour final practice Saturday, posting a lap at 129.898 mph in the No. 11 Toyota. Mark Martin was second on the speed chart at 129.636 mph in the No. 8 Chevrolet.

 

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