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Jimmie Johnson . An unprecedented fourth consecutive Sprint Cup title places Johnson among the all-time greats ever to sit in a race car.

ON ANOTHER NFL Sunday, perhaps football fans were aware that Jimmie Johnson was closing in on a four-peat. To the general sports fan, NASCAR is made up of those guys who race fast, make a lot of left turns and wear uniforms littered with sponsors logos.

Before officially handing over the Texas Thunder Speedway controls to David Goode, Pat Wilson had one final duty to perform, and he pulled it off with his usual mix of a little seriousness, doused with plenty of humor.

Brad Keselowski was spun by Denny Hamlin after a season-long feud boiled over during Saturday night's Nationwide Series race at Homestead-Miami. Denny Hamlin had no problem with the one-lap penalty NASCAR imposed on him for spinning Brad Keselowski during Saturday night's season-ending Ford Nationwide Series 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Barring a blown engine or a multicar melee that snares his seemingly charmed Chevrolet, Jimmie Johnson will win a fourth consecutive NASCAR championship today - a feat never achieved by the legendary Richard Petty, the late Dale Earnhardt or any other driver to strap into a stock car.

NASCAR chairman Brian France wants Jimmie Johnson to be commended for his four-year run atop NASCAR, and not used as an example of why the championship format might be flawed.

Days from making NASCAR history, Jimmie Johnson hasnt forgotten Herzog Motorsports.

Jimmie Johnson continues to out-do himself. Two years ago, in 2007, Johnson had a Chase for the ages, winning four consecutive races during one remarkable stretch.

Somewhere in the future race fans will sit back in an easy chair relating to a younger generation how they enjoyed watching one of the best drivers in stock car history.

In advance of Sunday's season finale for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Chad Knaus, crew chief on the No.

Jimmie Johnson celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.

AP Photo/Mary Schwalm Driver Carl Edwards celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Nationwide Series Able Body Labor 200 auto race at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Ariz., Saturday, Nov.

Kyle Busch said winning this year's Nationwide Series title, which he probably will clinch in Saturday's race at Phoenix International Raceway, will be his biggest accomplishment in racing.

This is a 1980 Hugger Z28 The idea for the Hugger Camaros was conceived by Tom Neal in the spring of 1979 as a means of funding his racing effort in the Twenty-four Hours of Daytona.

Friday was what Jimmie Johnson 's Sprint Cup team calls "thrash day," a time when crew members run around the garage in organized chaos to switch the No.

It was a double celebration tonight in Victory Lane at Phoenix International Raceway at the end of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race.

Martin Truex Jr. shrugged off a penalty assessed by NASCAR to his team earlier this week by winning the pole for Sunday's Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.

NASCAR comes to the West Valley this weekend. That means a HUGE influx of people.

As a driver and an owner, Kevin Harvick could be doing some serious celebrating following Friday night's Lucas Oil 150 Camping World Truck Series race at Phoenix International Raceway.

With two races left in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Jimmie Johnson leads the standings by 73 points over second-place Mark Martin and 112 points over third-place Jeff Gordon.