“I wish I could relive that!” Jimmie Johnson reveals how he truly felt about equaling Dale Sr. and Richard Petty’s Championship record
NASCAR Hall of Famer Jimmie Johnson has revealed how he really felt about his championship triumph in 2016.
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Richard Petty, Jimmie Johnson (In Circle) and Dale Earnhardt (Via IMAGO)
Ex-Hendrick Motorsports champion Jimmie Johnson is one of the three GOATs of the sport alongside late Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty. All three of them are seven times world champions, who dominated the sports in three different era and wrote a legacy that only the three of them could match.
In a recent podcast appearance, Jimmie Johnson how he felt about winning his seventh and last title in 2016. The whole race was full of up and downs for him, and that made the title win more special for him. He was racing P6, with 15 laps left in the at Homestead Miami, with no chance of winning the title before a set of red flags changed his luck.
I’d go back to winning the seventh championship in Homestead in 2016—that evening. Just the emotions that we went through that evening to tie with the greats of Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty. Of course, that upside is very understandable, but 15 laps before I won the race, I won the championship, and I was in 6th place. I was not going to win the race or the championship. And we had a red flag that then set off a series of restarts.
Jimmie Johnson said via High Performance podcast.
Further talking about the point, he admitted that he had a lot of pressure on his shoulders at the moment and he was in an emotional roller coaster. He admitted that he was said and angry in the last 15 laps of the race, but he also wants to relive that experience, one of his biggest championship triumphs.
I didn’t realize the strengths I had under pressure until I was in those moments. How low I was and how bummed and sad and angry I was, 15 laps before the end, and to where we ended. Like that emotional roller coaster, I wish I could relive that experience again.
Jimmie Johnson added.
Jimmie Johnson explains how he went from Motorcross to NASCAR
If not for a decision from Jimmie Johnson’s father, the legendary career would never even have happened. He grew up racing bikes, hoping to become a pro-motocross racer, but his father made the decision to make him race in the off-road car racing scene owing to the multiple injuries he had racing bikes.
I grew up on bikes, I got my first motorcycle on Christmas when I was 4 and then started racing at 5. I found my way to four wheels when I was a teenager, just had too many broken bones, and my dad found a way to get me into a similar type of racing but with a roll cage around myself in stadium off-road racing, and things kind of took off from there.
Jimmie Johnson said.
The decision from Gary Earnest Johnson changed the whole racing history and the NASCAR fans are thankful for it. He has made a lot of contribution as a racer and now has the opportunity to make a lot of changes, as the co-owner of Legacy Motor Club.
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