Bad news for the competition: Jimmie Johnson and Lowe’s
will remain with Hendrick Motorsports through at least the 2017 season.
Team owner Rick Hendrick confirmed today that the six-time
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion and his longtime sponsor have each signed two-year
contract extensions, ending a brief period of speculation that Johnson might not
finish his career with HMS.
Crew chief Chad Knaus is also locked in, having recently signed
a three-year contract that will keep him atop Johnson’s pit box through the
2018 campaign. Together, they have won 74 races and six championships in
seven-plus years together, all of them sponsored by Lowe’s.
Johnson is tied for the top spot in the championship
standings as the 2015 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup begins this weekend at Chicagoland
Speedway.
I am shocked! Said no one. :-)
ReplyDelete"brief period of speculation"?? Who was smolking what? Never any doubt that Jimmie and Chad would stay at Hendrick. Ellen, JJ's girlfriend
ReplyDeleteActually, there was considerable speculation (well founded, IMO) that Chad would cash-in his crew chief chips and take a TV job in the near future.
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