20 tracks where Jimmie Johnson has won NASCAR Cup Series races

Hendrick Motorsports announced Friday that Jimmie Johnson has signed a contract extension that will keep him behind the wheel of the No. 48 Chevrolet through the 2020 season, when he will be 45 years old.

With 83 career wins, the seven-time NASCAR Premier Series champion only has three active tracks on the schedule where he hasn’t visited Victory Lane at – Chicagoland Speedway, Kentucky Speedway and Watkins Glen International.

Here’s how Johnson’s 83 wins break down by track:

Johnson’s championship-clinching win could easily go down as his most important. His first win at Homestead put him in elite company as he tied Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt with seven Cup Series championships. Johnson has an average finish of 13.25 which ranks on the low end for the No. 48 team.

Outside of the superspeedways, Michigan is Johnson’s worst track with a 16.43 average finish in his career. His singular win came in June 2014 in the scenic Irish Hills. The struggles are unusual when compared to Johnson’s success at similar tracks like Texas and Auto Club.

The lone road course win of Johnson’s career came in June 2010 and Johnson has found a consistent groove in Wine Country, finishing 17^th or better in every Sonoma race since 2006.

The largest oval in NASCAR has grown on Johnson since his career started with DNFs in four of his first seven appearances at ‘Dega. Overall, it still serves as his worst average finish (17.30) and the track he’s recorded the most DNFs (8).

With so much success on other short tracks like Martinsville and Dover, it’s surprising Johnson just scored his second win at Bristol this season. 

Back when The Track Too Tough to Tame had two races per season, Johnson swept the 2004 races. He added his third win in the 2012 Southern 500. He has an average finish of 10.39 and posted his second worst finish (33^rd) at the track in 2016.

The two-time Daytona 500 winner captured his first Harley J. Earl Trophy in 2006 and added a second with a helpful push by his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr in 2013. Johnson swept Daytona that season by winning the Coke Zero 400 ahead of Tony Stewart and Kevin Harvick.

The seven-time champion is a model of consistency at almost every track but Kansas serves as one of his best. Along with his three wins, Johnson has 17 top-10 finishes in 21 total starts, an 8.90 average finish, and has completed every lap at the track outside of two races.

Success at the New England track has dipped in recent years by Johnson’s standards. His most recent win came in 2010 after his first two came in a 2003 season sweep. His average finish still remains at a sturdy 10.50, so no reason to bet against Johnson at Loudon.

A very similar story to New Hampshire, Johnson swept the Tricky Triangle early in his career and then added another win in recent years. With two finishes outside the top 30 in the last five races, Pocono hasn’t been Johnson’s strongest track lately. His average finish of 10.57 is still better than most, though.

Johnson recorded all three Richmond wins in a four-race stretch from May 2007 to Sept. 2008, his best finish since then is third, three times. With an average finish of 16.03, there have been some low days for the No. 48 team at the 0.75-mile track.

After Jeff Gordon dominated the first ten years of NASCAR at the Brickyard, he passed the baton to Johnson, who racked up four wins from 2006 to 2012, including three of four. One more win at Indy and Johnson would tie Gordon for the most all-time.

It’s been six years since Johnson’s gone to Victory Lane in the Sin City, but he’s a contender almost every year. After dominating the track with three-straight wins, Johnson still fares well in the desert with a finish of sixth or better in four of the past five races.

This is a surprising stat -- Johnson has a better average finish (8.96) than Kevin Harvick (10.04) despite having half as many wins at Phoenix. While Harvick has dominated in recent years, Johnson put together a stretch of 12 races from 2005 to 2011 where he didn’t finish worse than seventh and tallied all four of his wins.

With wins in the last two races in the Peach State, the No. 48 team and Chad Knaus seem to have gained a leg up on the competition at Atlanta. Johnson did the same in 2007 when he swept both races and has a formidable 10.68 average finish.

While there are several tracks Johnson has more wins at, the case can easily be made that his home state track in California, where he got his first Cup Series win, is clearly his best. In 22 starts, Johnson has finished every single lap and posted an absurd average finish of 6.50. He's also only finished outside of the top 20 once, a 24^th-place finish in 2014.

With his record seventh with at Texas this season, Johnson now has seven or more wins at four different tracks. He's dominated at TMS, winning four of the last six races at the 1.5-mile oval.

The track in NASCAR’s home city felt like home immediately for Johnson. He won five of his first nine starts at CMS and has led 1,895 laps in 31 races, his third-most of any track. Despite so much success, Johnson’s 12.58 average finish ranks in the bottom half of tracks for him.

A look at Johnson’s stats from so many tracks between 2006 and 2010 make it very clear why he won five-straight championships and is now a seven-time champion. Martinsville showcases that success as Johnson won five times and had an average finish of 2.80 at The Paperclip during his historic run of five-straight titles.

At what’s considered one of the most driver-demanding tracks in NASCAR, Johnson burst on the scene with a season sweep at the Monster Mile in 2002, which became a sign of things to come for the driver of the No. 48. Johnson owns Dover and added yet another one to his staggering win total in 2017.