Jimmie Johnson

Shootout Preview: Denny Hamlin will kick off the 2012 NASCAR season in Saturday night’s Budweiser Shootout exhibition race at Daytona International Speedway. The season-opening 75-lap event will pit the top-25 drivers in the 2011 Sprint Cup Series ...  

Michael Waltrip and Clint Bowyer, Michael Waltrip Racing ToyotaPhoto by: Eric Gilbert CORNELIUS, N.C. — “New” is a word that Sprint Cup Series driver Clint Bowyer is going to hear a lot when he arrives in Daytona for the start of the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Bowyer starts the season with a new team - Michael Waltrip Racing, new sponsor 5-hour ENERGY, new car number 15, new manufacturer Toyota, new crew chief Brian Pattie, new...  

CORNELIUS, N.C. — “New” is a word that Sprint Cup Series driver Clint Bowyer is going to hear a lot when he arrives in Daytona for the start of the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Bowyer starts the season with a new team – Michael ...  

KURT BUSCH Going Back to Daytona Means Getting Back to Roots MOORESVILLE, N.C., (Feb. 15, 2012) – Sometimes it’s good to get back to your roots. And for 2004 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Kurt Busch, the 2012 season will involve just that. Kurt Busch, Phoenix Racing ChevroletPhoto by: Eric Gilbert Busch begins his 12th full Sprint Cup season driving the No. 51 Chevrolet for Phoenix Racing, a team unlike any other he has driven for in...  

TONY STEWART #Winning KANNAPOLIS, N.C., (Feb. 15, 2012) – Charlie Sheen talked a lot about winning in 2011. Tony Stewart actually won. A lot, in fact. Stewart went winless during the first 26 races of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series’ regular season, but then batted .500 in the Chase for the Sprint Cup by winning five of the year’s final 10 races. In doing so, the driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Mobil 1 Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas...  

Kevin Harvick and the No. 29 Budweiser Chevrolet team will kick off the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) season with Saturday’s Budweiser Shootout at Daytona International Speedway. Kevin Harvick, Richard Childress Racing ChevroletPhoto by: Eric Gilbert Hall of Famer… On Wednesday, February 1, Harvick became the fourth driver to be inducted into the Bob Elias Kern County Sports Hall of Fame in his hometown of Bakersfield, Calif. Four-time...  

According to Bryan May, the Sports Director at KXTV News10, many of today's NASCAR drivers like to play kart racing video games between actual races. If that's the case, then it's no wonder that Autumn Games and Konami have published Jimmie Johnson's ...  

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (February 14, 2012) – - The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is arguably one of the most competitive sports in the world. Winning is not easy and it does not happen often. For champion Bobby Labonte, he has been fortunate to appear ...  

Racing fans and other consumers can chat online with NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Kevin Harvick this Wednesday night at 7 p.m. ET through Federal-Mogul’s #ChampionChat social media campaign on Twitter and TweetChat.com.  

Forget the candy, cards and flowers for your valentine this holiday and score a "Sweetheart of a Deal" for April's Samsung Mobile 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. Beginning Tuesday - Valentine's Day - at 9 a.m. CT and continuing ...  

Addition by subtraction. Kevin Harvick hopes it adds up to his elusive Sprint Cup championship in 2012 and the first for Richard Childress Racing since 1994. Harvick is coming off consecutive third-place finishes in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series. But with RCR contracting from four teams to three — the No. 33 team of Clint Bowyer is gone — Harvick has already benefited by bringing former Bowyer crew chief Shane Wilson to the No. 29 team.  

Team owner Kyle Busch, the all-time race winning driver in the history of the NASCAR Nationwide Series, will share driving duties with his brother Kurt Busch, the 2004 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion. To celebrate, Monster Energy and KBM went all out ...  

Dale Earnhardt Jr. is at a make-or-break point in his career. That has been said before, but I haven’t said it until now. The 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Season is Earnhardt Jr.’s time to soar or fall; he has...read more  

Tony Stewart thrilled NASCAR fans with an amazing comeback and championship run last season. What can he do for an encore? Can Carl Edwards recover from the heartbreak of losing last year’s title and make another run? And can five-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson start another record-breaking streak a year after the end of his historic reign?  

NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Kasey Kahne is now recovering from knee surgery. The driver had a part of his left medial meniscus removed during the outpatient procedure on Friday, February 10, 2012. It was necessary because Kahne was discovered to be suffering ...