After not making the Playoffs last season for the first time in his career, Hendrick Motorsport’s Jimmie Johnson finds himself teetering on the Playoff bubble again, just 24 points up on 17th-place Austin Dillon, 17 races into the 2020 season.
This year Johnson and crew chief Cliff Daniels are starting to click and find some success. The pair have amassed two top fives and six top 10s in 17 starts. But the biggest dark cloud looming over Johnson’s head is the current winless streak he cannot seem to shake. The driver of the No. 48 has 83 victories to his name but has not been able to get back to Victory Lane in 112 races (111 attempts – was sidelined for one race due to COVID-19).
But if there was track that Jimmie Johnson could turn it around, not named Dover, it would be Texas Motor Speedway. Johnson leads the series in wins at Texas with seven victories (2007, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 sweep and 2017). In total he has made 33 starts at the 1.5-mile facility putting up two poles, seven wins, 16 top fives (series-most) and 22 top 10s (tied with Kevin Harvick for series-most). He finished fifth in the March Texas race last season.
