Prelude to the Dream Race

Attention Race Fans! The Prelude to the Dream Race will be taking place on Wednesday, September 9th. This is an enormous event and we would greatly appreciate your support!

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We are expected to have over 600,000 HBO pay-per-view watchers! Jimmie Johnson, a Hendrickcars.com driver, will be driving the #48 Hendrickcars.com race car at El Dora so keep your fingers crossed and send the Hendrick team some good luck! With a top 10 finish last year we are hoping for an even better result this year in the Hendrickcars.com race car. There will also be a dirt track race broadcasted live that will be a huge event. With 11 Nascar Sprint series drivers including Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart (El Dora Speedway owner), Carl Edwards, Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick, Kasey Kahne, Matt Kenseth and many other drivers from teams including Nationwide, IROC, Indy and other series, you will not want to miss this race! These drivers will be donating their time and skills to participate in this race and help raise money for military charities.

Charity benefits!
It is always nice to race, but it's better when it is also beneficial for charities! There will be four military charities that will benefit from the HBO proceeds so please tune in!

Charity Beneficiaries:

• Wounded Warrior Project
• Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund
• Operation Homefront
• Fisher House

Tune in!

Date : Sept. 9th
Time : 7:00pm EST / 4:00pm PST
Where : HBO pay-per-view
HBO information: HBO PRELUDE TO THE DREAM

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Hendrick Honda of Charleston is happy to announce that on June 3, 2009 NASCAR's top drivers will be racing to benefit the following military charities. Fisher House, Wounded Warrior Project, Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund and Operation Homefront. The #48 car driven by Jimmie Johnson is sponsored by Hendrickcars.com. This race at Eldora Speedway features other top drivers from Nationwide, IROC, Indy and other series . It will be broadcast live on HBO telecast at 7pm eastern on June 3, 2009. This pay per view event is expected to attract 1 million viewers. Watch the race on Wednesday to cheer for Jimmie Johnson and Hendrickcars.com. Go to Hendrickcars.com to view all the pre-owned vehicles available through the Hendrick Organization Enjoy!!!

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Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Jimmie Johnson Wins Third Straight Title!

HOMESTEAD, Fla. (Nov. 16, 2008) -- Jimmie Johnson and his No. 48 Lowe's Chevrolet team put their name in the record books after finishing 15th in Sunday's 400-mile event at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Johnson captured his third straight NASCAR Sprint Cup championship, making him only the second driver ever to three-peat in NASCAR's elite series. Cale Yarborough earned three straight Cup titles in 1976, 1977 and 1978.

“It hasn’t sunken in yet, but I’m just to proud of this race team and the fight that this team has had in it over the course of the year," Johnson said. "There were times this season when we weren’t even in the ballpark, but these guys buckled down and worked hard. I’m so proud of this team effort, I mean, how cool. I mean growing up in El Cajon, Calif., acing motocross, I never thought I’d be in this position. I’m so thankful and so blessed and know how many people are a part of what makes this take place, the great people at Lowe’s, Kobalt, Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports, it’s been a total team effort and I’m very, very happy.”

Johnson scored three wins, six top-five finishes and eight top-10s during the 10-race Chase competition. Overall this season, Johnson recorded seven wins, 15 top-five finishes, 22 top-10s and led 1,959 laps.
© 2008 Hendrick Automotive Group

The Allstate 400

INDIANAPOLIS --

You knew what was up for Sunday by midday Friday, when Jimmie Johnson, in his own polite way, subtly called his Ruthian shot.

Asked if a win in the Allstate 400 would make it clear he's back, he said -- no brag, just fact -- "We're back already. I don't think we need to run this weekend to prove that." He also politely blew off questions about how hot Kyle Busch has been lately, not so much denigrating Busch's streak as implying by his tone that it just might be over … that Johnson was ready to take command of the Sprint Cup tour for a while.

"I hate flying below the radar," he said of his recent history after winning the Cup the past two years running. "I miss being booed. I miss people throwing stuff at me. I want to start winning again and go through all that stuff." Even without results to show for it yet -- he finished second to Busch at Chicagoland the previous race -- Johnson could feel his momentum of the past two seasons returning.

"We've got a lot of speed, we're qualifying up front, we're racing up front -- we're back," he said. All this, before Johnson ran so much as a practice lap at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Then Saturday, he won the pole to demonstrate the "qualifying up front." Hours later, he was fastest in final practice, showing "a lot of speed." Most of Sunday afternoon he raced up front. He dominated! Then he won, for the second time here in three years. He's back!

He breezed early, got into a bit of a fix late with a blistered tire, then staged a spectacular drive back from ninth to first. Though his tire problem looked for a moment like it might cost him the win, it was minor indeed amid the pandemic of tire failures that brought out 11 cautions. The issue was mostly right-rears blowing. And how indicative of Johnson's day was this: When his right-rear finally blew, it was during his victory burnout. The blister occurred two stops from the end, when Johnson was fighting an unexpected challenge from Denny Hamlin. He had seen little competition previously.

"The first three-fourths of the race, it seemed like we could run the pace we needed to, and pass guys and control the race," Johnson said. "But at the end, I don't know if the 11 [Hamlin] and the 99 [Carl Edwards] had been just waiting for the right time to get aggressive, but those guys really matched our pace and were tough to race with.

Just before he fell back to ninth, "I was behind the 11 and thought I could get by him, but I blistered the right-rear tire and that didn't work out." But he was saved by a mandatory competition caution NASCAR threw for tire checks. With a fresh set, "I got up to I guess second or third for that last [mandatory] pit stop [with 10 laps remaining]." Johnson and crew chief Chad Knaus had been going with four-tire stops all race -- that's why Johnson found himself behind Hamlin, who took two. But on the final stop, Knaus ordered only two tires, Johnson roared out of the pits first, and from there it was only a matter of zigging and zagging down Indy's long straightaways to break the draft on the pressing Edwards.

Though he had only one win this season coming to Indy, Johnson had seen his team gaining momentum lately without the results to show for it, and "that's where that confidence came from," he said of his Friday talk. "We've known we've been doing the right things; we could see the momentum. We've just had a lot of races where strategy came into play and it didn't work out for us. And we didn't get the finishes we deserved. "You can look at the races," Knaus said. "Not the finishes but the races themselves over the last 10 or 12 weeks, and we've been right there. … Any racetrack we go to now, I can proudly say I think we can run top-5 speeds. If you can do that on a weekly basis, then you're going to be in position to go for a championship. "And I think we're there now."

Ed Hinton covers motorsports for ESPN.com. He can be reached at edward.t.hinton@espn3.com.