Seven-time Cup Collection champion Jimmie Johnson will drive the No. 1 Toyota Tundra for Tricon Storage when NASCAR heads to Naval Base Coronado for a singular avenue race in San Diego, California.
Johnson, a California native, may also be making an attempt doubly responsibility that weekend as he plans to run the NASCAR Cup Collection race as nicely. Carvana will sponsor each efforts.
Whereas Johnson has over 700 begins within the Cup Collection with 83 race wins and 7 titles, he has only one begin within the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Collection. That got here all the best way again in 2008 at Bristol Motor Speedway, the place he began ninth and led 29 laps earlier than a crash relegated him to a Thirty fourth-place end.
“Racing in San Diego means every little thing to me – it’s house,” mentioned Johnson. “Getting behind the wheel of a Truck Collection entry has been on my thoughts for some time. The competitors is unbelievable, and doing it at a historic avenue race on a Navy base in my hometown? That’s particular. I’m grateful to TRICON and Carvana for making this occur, and truthfully, I can’t consider a greater option to honor our navy and have a good time the place I’m from.”
Johnson, who retired from full-time NASCAR racing after the 2020 season, has been competing part-time since then. His subsequent look will come within the 2026 Daytona 500, the place he’ll make his twenty third begin within the crown jewel occasion after securing the Open Exemption Provisional.
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