You Kids Don't Know: Jimmie Johnson | NASCAR ON FOX 

his 7 championship

His Dover save and 7th championship in 2016.

Seeing him win seven championships

His 7th NASCAR Cup Series Championship

Being the best driver in the most competitive era in NASCAR history.

I'd have had no problem if JJ never came to Nascar. So I could imagine him not running in this era.

@@doc8068 too many wins?

Can experience that value born during his reign of terror on the nascar world

@@jingleoctopus4160 He excels too much excellence for some people I guess 🤷🏼‍♂️

@@jingleoctopus4160 no just remember him being a wrecking ball when he first came into the cup. Watch one too many races where he took out the whole field. Especially top level drivers including mine. I've never believed he was as good as they say he was. Way to many NASCAR gate stuff he and Chad were always in the news about. I'm not a hater just think he wasn't all the hype many made him out to be. Especially when he couldn't win a race if his life depended on it at the end of his career. Just the way it was and now is at Indy level.

I grew up watching and rooting for him week in and week out. I'm excited to watch the Indy 500 next week

He was my second favorite driver, along with Jeff Gordon my primary favorite until Gordon retired.

Jimmie was incredibly overrated my all-time favorite racer Dale Earnhardt was far better

@@nascarandrc8296 yeah Dale Sr was my primary to start off with

JIMMAAAYYY

Me too! Been a fan since 2002 and will always be!!

@@cherylbarrett695 true but still I wanted to see him win his 8th championship

@Joe Shelton I was hoping for the same!

Jimmie was a cheater my favorite all-time Earnhardt was far better

@@nascarandrc8296 Dale Sr was my favorite to start off before JJ came to the Cup Series

Hahaha good joke Earnhardt was far better than Jimmie ever was

Thanks for all the love and support, where are you from ?

My favorite all-time for my childhood was the Earnhardts Sr and Jr and they were better role models and Sr was far better racer than Dale earnhardt

@Chiefsfan 11 Same! The first race I ever watched was at Sonoma, my grandpa's favorite driver was Jeff Gordon, Johnson actually crashed that day and Gordon won, but I had the last laugh over my grandpa, as Johnson would go on to win 7

You did not pick the goat he passed away in 01 Dale Earnhardt was far better than overrated Jimmie

I did the same

Earnhardt was better than overrated Jimmy was

They always felt more like brothers then friends especially later in there careers

Gordon was/is the co-owner of the 48 team. Rick Hendrick wanted nothing to do with Jimmie because he was a wrecking ball before he entered the Cup series. Gordon basically told Rick to trust him and that this kid had what it takes to be great. Gordon became his mentor. Chad Knaus was an engineer on Gordon’s team I believe before they made him crew chief for Jimmie. The rest is history.

I miss better and cooler racers Dale Earnhardt and Dale jr

Nope Earnhardt was better than Jimmie overrated Johnson

@@nascarandrc8296 I found your burner...you're that Dale Sr fan, RC88 or whatever, that went on every single JJ video telling us how Dale is better. You're pathetic.

JIMMAY!

JIMMAY

Thanks for all the love and support.

No Dale earnhardt is

Nope that's Dale Earnhardt

Brad is just the most unlikable guy in NASCAR lol. He is so talented and I want to root for him, but his interviews are just always garbage. He is also still hurt about losing his chance at Hendrick.

Brad has an excellent point- even if you don’t want to hear it. Jimmie is immeasurably talented, but the best driver in the world goes nowhere without a quality team behind them. I follow the World of Outlaws sprint cars, have for years. The two best I ever saw were Steve Kinser and Donny Schatz (and of course now Brad Sweet). They have a multitude of wins and championships, but quickly point out it was because they had a team that could give them equipment they could use their talents to best effect. The simple fact is, Jimmie won SEVEN cup titles- with his TEAM.

Jimmie Johnson wouldn't have won all those races if he was with a trash team like Morgan McClure racing In the 2000s come on bruh, Mark Martin when he went to Rick Hendrick said it was like NASA. So if you don't think Jimmy Johnson's equipment had a lot to do with his wins then you're just a gullible naive fool.

​@@GregAllenF1 Jimmie Johnson wouldn't have won all those races if he was with a trash team like Morgan McClure racing In the 2000s come on bruh, Mark Martin when he went to Rick Hendrick said it was like NASA. So if you don't think Jimmy Johnson's equipment had a lot to do with his wins then you're just a gullible naive fool.

Nope that's Dale

Didn't have the balls to use a bumper

@@nascarandrc8296 didn’t feel the NEED to use a bumper. He got there without having to be dirty- unlike Dale.

@Sara Grant Jimmie was overrated couldn't even win in last 3 years Dale was better rubbing is racing

@@saragrant9749Dale didn’t need to either won many times without contact Dale > Jimmie

@@nascarandrc8296 considering Jimmie won FIVE consecutive titles against even stiffer competition than Dale competed against- without the need to dump people for the win I’d say he was far from “overrated.” The last three years of his career were marked as much by bad luck as by lack of speed- which had as much to do with the CAR as with him. Many a great driver had quiet times at the end, just look at Richard Petty. Dale won plenty of races clean… and plenty of them dirty. Rubbing is one thing, taking someone else out is another.

I grew up watching an even better racer Dale Earnhardt

Earnhardt is the goat Jimmie just had cheating Chad on the pit box

Stick to basketball 🏀 because the 🐐is Dale

@@nascarandrc8296 wdym stick to basketball 🤨

That’s incredible! Jimmie Johnson is my inspiration due to my recent domination on iRacing, I ran a tribute to his 2016 car this year at Autoclub and I’m going to at Texas. I became a fan in 2020 so I didn’t get to see him win but watching some of his old races is really fun! Best of luck to him and his team!

You misspelled "talent" twice

The greatest crew chief is Ray Evernham. Knaus is #2.

He DID drive a superman car to a win in Auto Club 2016

@@ringo3911 Yep! That's the one I was referring to

What's that guy's deal? He made a second account and you can find him on EVERY JJ video.

Dale was far better loser Jimmie was overrated benefited from weaker competition cheater Chad and the best equipment

@Tristan Ellis Gaming thanks for all the love and support

2017 was great until pocono when he crashed. I think something mentally or physically happened in that crash. Only JJ will ever know though

and he is spending his last amounts of talent against Indy walls. Respect for the old man.

2017 was fine Jimmie got wins. 2018, No hendrick even made it to the Final 4. And hendrick as an entire organization only amassed 3 wins. So it wasn't a good year for the entire group. 2019 was a coming back to the front year with 4 wins total. 2020 was a year Jimmie should have got a win. Cars were good and plenty of wins so ya.

If anyone has started watching Nacar within the past 5 years they wouldn't know the lore/Legend of Jimmie Johnson all they would have seen is the end to his career

Nope the greatest save ever was by Nascars greatest ever Dale Earnhardt the pass in the grass

Really? What makes you say that? (just curious)

I want him to come back to Nascar. His final few years were just horrible timing. Chevy was so far behind for a few years, and then the final falling apart with Knaus, and having to go through another crew chief before finally getting a decent one with Daniels. Covid screwed up his final year, and the no qualifying that year just destroyed his (and most other drivers) chances of winning a race. The top 12 were guaranteed the top 12 spots on the track each week, and those guys got all the wins. Meanwhile, every other driver was fighting from the back week after week. It was just wrong. Johnson deserved a better final year.

Then why didn't Jeff win a championship with the playoff format if its so easy to do? If Jeff is so good why didn't he do what Jimmie did and Just all out dominate. Thats right he couldn't. Jimmie superior

@@tstuff1213 because the system never favors a consistent driver like him who may of not got lots of wins but finished well without those playoffs he had at least another 3 championship and Jimmie had only 2-3 at most

@@MattMRKMFMattJG24 Larson, Truex, Tony Stewart, Jimmie Johnson all Really consistent and won championships in this format. So why couldn't Jeff. Also Jeff has 93 wins! one of the most winningest drivers EVER so he can thrive in a win driven format. But he failed and Jimmie excelled. Considering Jimmie finished twice in 2nd for the winston Cup championship in his first 2-3 years in the series Im sure we could have won 3 or more Cup championships under the winston format in his prime.

@@tstuff1213 most of those probably would of won without it they didn't need to rely on it as heavily has Johnson did most of the championships he won be the playoffs he wasn't first and the person who was normally was fell down the list all because they didn't have enough wins

@@MattMRKMFMattJG24 Well isn't the whole point of nascar to win races? Consistency is great and all but a win is what matters more than anything in our sport. Winning is alot harder to do too at times then being consistent (especially during the most competitive era in all of Nascar) with a good car/team you can run top 10 year round but consistently going for wins like Jimmie did is alot harder to do.Consistency is important don't get me wrong. But you also can't act like Johnson wasn't consistent. Again he finiahed 2nd twice in tbe battle for the Winston Cup championship in his first 3 years in the sport. So he had the consistency to do it. Also Jimmies first 5 championships were still in the first playoff format (not what we have today) where it was very points dependent sure winning often earned you more points (as it should ) but he didn't even have to win the final race at Homestead those years because he won on points. So you had to be both consistent and be able to win alot of races