Birthdate: Sept. 17, 1975 Hometown: El Cajon, Calif. Resides: Charlotte, N.C. Marital Status: Married (Chandra) Children: None Hobbies: Water sports, snowboarding, biking

Jimmie Johnson No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet Team: Hendrick Motorsports Team Owner: Rick Hendrick Crew Chief: Chad Knaus Engine Builder: Hendrick Engines Career Starts: 183 Career Wins: 23 Career Poles: 9 Best Points Finish: 1st (2006) First Full Season: 2002 First Start: Oct. 7, 2001 (Charlotte) First Win: April 28, 2002 (California) First Pole: Feb. 9, 2002 (Daytona) Shop Address: 4400 Papa Joe Hendrick Blvd. Charlotte, NC 28262

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
2006 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series champion Top-five finish in final points, in all five NASCAR NEXTEL Cup seasons Series runner-up in 2003 and ’04 Coca-Cola 600 champion in 2003, ’04 and ’05

YEAR-BY-YEAR NASCAR NEXTEL CUP SERIES RECAP
2006 Won the series championship. … Finished with five wins, 13 top fives, 24 top 10s and one pole. … His 24 top 10s led the series. … Spent all 36 weeks of the season in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Top 10. … Won his first Daytona 500. Also won his first events at Talladega Superspeedway (in May) and at Indianapolis (in August). Other two victories came at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Martinsville Speedway.… Pole came at Martinsville (in April).

2005 Finished fifth in series points. … Won four races in his fourth season in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series, including the season sweep at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, which included a third consecutive Coca-Cola 600 win. Johnson is the first driver to win three straight Coca-Cola 600s. … Other victories came at the September event at Dover and Las Vegas. … Has finished in the top five all four of his NASCAR NEXTEL Cup seasons. … Finished with one pole, 13 top fives and 22 top 10s.

2004 Finished second in series points, only eight behind champion Kurt Busch, in the closest championship finish in NASCAR NEXTEL Cup history. … Led points for nine race weeks during season. … Led series in wins with eight and top fives with 20. … Started Chase for the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup fifth in the standings, and dropped to ninth after first three races of Chase. Rallied by winning four of the year’s last six races, including three consecutive (Charlotte- Martinsville-Atlanta). … Had three season sweeps, winning both events held at Darlington, Charlotte and Pocono.… Repeated as Coca-Cola 600 champion and also won Mountain Dew Southern 500. … String of 70 consecutive weeks in NASCAR Top 10 ended in Week 2, after 41st-place finish at Rockingham.

2003 Finished second in series points, in only his second full season. … Spent all 36 weeks in the NASCAR Top 10, the only driver to do so. Started 2004 with a string of 69 consecutive weeks in the NASCAR Top 10, best among active drivers. … Finished two spots above his car owner, Jeff Gordon, in the NASCAR Top 10. … Season highlight was winning rain-shortened Coca-Cola 600 in May at Charlotte, one week after winning the all-star event, a non-points event also held at Charlotte.… Swept season events at New Hampshire. … Ended season by finishing in the top three in the last six events to secure runner-up finish in series championship.

2002 Finished fifth in series points as a rookie. … Won Daytona 500 pole in fourth career start. … First career victory (at California) came in 13th start. … Won three races (California and both Dover races). … Became first rookie in series history to sweep both races at a track. … Led point standings for one week following Kansas in September.

2001 Finished 52nd in series points. … Made series debut with three starts, best finish 25th at Homestead.

PREVIOUS RACING HISTORY
Finished eighth in NASCAR Busch Series points in 2001, driving for Herzog Motorsports. … Earned first career NASCAR Busch Series victory in the series’ inaugural race at Chicagoland Speedway… Won $1,556,668 in 72 NASCAR Busch Series events from 1998-2001. … During first full season in the NASCAR Busch Series, had six top- 10 finishes and finished 10th in the point standings. …In 1999, started five NASCAR Busch Series races, led 22 laps and collected one top-10 finish. …Won Rookie of the Year honors in the ASA ACDelco Challenge Series in 1998. … Johnson won six off-road racing championships, including two MTEG Superlite championships (1992, '95), the 1992 Miller Challenge Superlite title, the 1993 SCORE Class 10 Desert championship, and two SODA Winter Series Overall titles (1996, '97). … Also was named 1991 MTEG Rookie of the Year in the Superlite Class and 1995 SCORE Rookie of the Year.… Began racing in motocross events at age five.

NOTEWORTHY
During the 2000 season, Johnson was selected as one of People Magazine’s “Sexiest Men in the Fast Lane,” along with other NASCAR drivers. … Johnson was the youngest driver ever in the Mickey Thompson Stadium Truck Series. … Johnson and Jeff Gordon joined World Superbike champion Colin Edwards in Europe, and won the 2002 Race of Champions Nations Cup, an annual event pitting the world’s best rally, motorcycle and circuit racers against one another in head-to-head competition.