Tony Schumacher and the U.S. Army team won their sixth straight and seventh overall NHRA Full Throttle Series championship on Sunday by two points, the narrowest margin in NHRA history.
Schumacher’s team was on deck, sitting on a two-point lead over Larry Dixon, when Dixon was upset in the semifinals by Auto Club Road to the Future Award favorite Spencer Massey, thus clinching the title for the Army team.
His look is clean-cut. His outward personality is polite. Jimmie Johnson wears a Lowe’s patch on his fire suit sleeve, not his heart.
And so it has become easy to miss what’s true about Jimmie Johnson – how his legendary combination of competiveness and talent has driven him to the brink of a historic fourth consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup title.
After a dominating first-place finish here on Sunday at the Checker O’Reilly Auto Parts 500, he carries a 108-point lead into next weekend’s finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He needs to finish just 25th or better to make history… Details
Nothing goes hand in hand better than snowboarding and free beer. To celebrate Breckenridge’s opening day on Thursday, SNOWBOARD Mag got together with Coors to put a night cap on the day’s festivities. Details and Party Pictures