is one of the figures in the NASCAR Sprint Cup, four champion and star all weekend in the most popular category in the United States.
From childhood this pilot is a champion. Started in Motocross. The current four-time Sprint Cup also devoted to charity.
Being Jimmie Johnson in the United States is easy, but distinguish between the thousands and thousands of Jimmies bearing the same surname, no. Jimmie is why the four-time consecutive champion of Nascar, it may be common name, but with an unusual talent.
Perhaps his innate ability to drive a car at high speed could have been left unexplored, it typically comes from a family working and middle class in El Cajon, California, U.S. stratum called blue collar. His father worked in a tire service and mom drove a school bus.
A particularly liked the Johnson motocross, so weekends were always in places where they could put their machines rolling. Inevitably, the small Jimmie grew up imbued with this fever. While some say he started riding motorcycles at age 4. The truth is that when I was 8, and was the champion more than 60 cubic centimeters and was cited as a potential successor to Rick Johnson (another famous Johnson) who had seven national motocross titles.
However, after breaking seven fingers and unravel a knee in a fall, Jimmie paused in the competitions. When he returned, he did on all four wheels of the SCORE Trophy Trucks and Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group, which became famous in the issue of speed in the U.S. Under these arrangements, he won six championships in five years and he had time to be ESPN commentator on the subject.
was evident that a pilot so dominant not pass unnoticed. In 1998, following a pilot named Ron Hornaday Jr. is enrolled in a tournament of stock cars-roughly equivalent to NASCAR, "and immediately was the best rookie of the year, with such brilliance that debuted the same year national series of NASCAR Busch, the same route where he began the Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya.
And, as has happened to Colombia took three years to win again, for his first win was in July 2001 at the Chicagoland track missing.
There is ignited a string of hits, as Jeff Gordon, at that time the star of the Nascar, hired him as a driver of development in the Hendrick Motorsports, the most powerful fleet in the category. Three months later, Jimmie debuted in the NASCAR major series with a poor outcome, as 15 and finished ranked 39.
But that was a starting point for his 2002 season was admirable. He finished tied for fifth and Tony Stewart wins in the history of rookies with three wins, the first one in California, when he tore his race number 13 in the league. To that they added four poles, one in Daytona.
in 2003, was runner and in 2004, despite three straight wins and a brilliant campaign, he lost the title by eight points to Kurt Busch. It was believed that in 2005 nobody atajarÃa to the crown, but their four wins was not enough to be a champion, a title which finally came in 2006 and so far not been abandoned.
Jimmie Johnson gradually became the most famous U.S.: the king of NASCAR, one of the most popular shows and followed in that country. The 2007 championship saw him on the podium four times in the chase, to surpass his mentor and owner of the car 48 which leads today, Jeff Gordon, whose decline contrasts with the rise ward unstoppable.
"Johnson and other NASCAR grueling walk, do not think this championship level is lower than the F-1 or other," Montoya told a few months ago.
cerebral Johnson is a broker, who can put the throttle when needed and will most likely wipe out the statistics, since only 35 years old and, at that age, in NASCAR, as are infants at 50, remains good as shown by winners Mark Martin, another circus hard.
In his private life little is known. Married to the beautiful model Chandra Janway, live in Charlotte near the clubhouse. In his life off the court with both devote the same commitment many hours to charitable foundations.
The annual golf tournament that bears his name and is sponsored by Lowe's, the same firm that bears their logos on the car 48, is one of its main activities and through this has brought together and two million dollars for various charities, all related to homes for the needy in the area where he was born, which is in line with the business of Lowe's, which is a huge supplier of building components and household items.
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