Jimmie Johnson Biography

Fast Facts

• Is only the second driver to win three consecutive Sprint Cup Championships, with the first being Cale Yarborough
• Launched the Jimmie Johnson Foundation with his wife, Chandra, in 2006 to benefit K-12 public education, in addition to other organizations like the Hendrick Marrow Program and the Make-A-Wish Foundation
• During his first season in 2002, he became the first rookie to lead the point standings and the first to win two races at the same track during the season
• Became the first racing driver to win the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year Award in 2009
• Is the only driver to have qualified for the Chase, the final set of races during the Sprint Cup season that determines that year's champion, every year since it began in 2004
• Began racing motorcycles at the age of 5 and won his first championship three years later
• Switched from motorcycles to cars in the early 1990s when he began racing off-road and eventually became a full-time Winston Cup (now Sprint Cup) driver in 2002
• Best known as the driver of the #48 NASCAR racing stock car and six-time Sprint Cup Champion
• His autobiography, "On the Road," was self-published with the help of his wife in 2012
• Suffers from chronic motion sickness in any other moving vehicle besides his race car