Team Lowe's Racing will visit the 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway for Saturday night's Sprint Cup event.
In his 12 Cup Series starts at Daytona, Lowe's driver Jimmie Johnson has collected one win, five top-five and eight top-10 finishes. He started from the pole in this season's Daytona 500 and finished 10th in last year's summer classic.
JIMMIE JOHNSON DAYTONA QUOTES
ON RETURNING TO DAYTONA: "I'm ready to go back to Daytona and see what we can get done in the Lowe's Impala SS. I felt like we had a car that could win there in February, especially in the beginning of the race. But we lost some track position, and it was hard to work through traffic and get the track position back. We're taking the same car we had in Talladega this year, and we had a pretty good run there. Restrictor-plate racing is all about patience, so hopefully we can stay out of trouble and get a good finish."
ON THE HELMET OF HOPE (THE NEW INITIATIVE THAT INVITES FANS TO VOTE FOR WHICH CHARITIES SHOULD HAVE THEIR LOGOS DISPLAYED ON JOHNSON'S HELMET): "There are so many great charities, and Chani (his wife, Chandra) and I have a hard time really deciding where and what we support and who we support. At the same time, we feel this is a great opportunity for the fans and for the media to bring some recognition to charities that are important to them. We just thought it would be a great way to keep everybody involved and also to bring recognition to a lot of these charities. I'm looking forward to drawing the first two organizations this weekend and getting the Helmet of Hope under way."
RACE NOTES
Daytona International Speedway
Johnson has made 12 Cup Series starts at Daytona International Speedway, collecting one win (February 2006), five top-five and eight top-10 finishes.
He has completed 98.7% (2,247 of 2,277) of competition laps at the 2.5-mile track and has led 55.
Johnson has an average start and finish of 8.6 and 13.2.
Chassis
Johnson's primary chassis in Sunday's Sprint Cup event will be No. 482, which he drove to a 13th-place finish at Talladega Superspeedway in April. His backup chassis, No. 419, grabbed a runner-up finish at Talladega last season.
CAREER NOTES
Wins
Johnson has 34 wins in his Sprint Cup Series career.
Johnson has won at least three Cup races a season since he posted his first victory in 2002. He is the only driver in the modern era to win at least three races in each of his first six full-time seasons.
Johnson's most recent victory at Phoenix (April 12, 2008) moved Johnson past legendary "Fireball" Roberts for 18th on NASCAR's all-time wins list. Johnson has the fourth-highest win total among active drivers, behind Jeff Gordon (81), Bill Elliott (44) and Mark Martin (35).
Johnson has won Sprint Cup Series races at all but seven (Bristol, Michigan, Infineon, Chicago, Watkins Glen, Kansas, Homestead) of the 22 tracks in which the series competes.
Johnson's 10 wins in 2007 were the highest number recorded in a single season since Jeff Gordon posted 13 victories in 1998.
The four consecutive wins scored by the No. 48 team in the 2007 Chase for the Championship ties a modern-era NASCAR record.
Poles
Johnson has collected 14 poles in his Sprint Cup career.
The championship driver has earned at least one pole a year since his first full-time season in 2002. He had a career-high four in both 2002 and 2007.
Johnson's most recent pole position was in the Feb. 17 Daytona 500.
Miscellaneous
Johnson has finished in the top five in the Sprint Cup Series point standings each year since his first full season, 2002.
In 236 Sprint Cup Series starts, Johnson has posted 90 top-five and 142 top-10 finishes.
He has a top-five finish at every track on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series circuit.
Johnson has led a total of 6,084 laps (of 68,068) in his Sprint Cup career, covering more than 90,887 miles.
He has finished on the lead lap 179 times.
PRIMARY CAR: CHASSIS NO. 482 HISTORY
| Car | Date | Event | Start | Finish |
| 48-482 | 4/27/2008 | Talladega race | 10 | 13 |
BACKUP CAR: CHASSIS NO. 419 HISTORY
| Car | Date | Event | Start | Finish |
| 48-419 | 10/7/2007 | Talladega race | 19 | 2 |
JOHNSON'S DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY RECORD
| Race | Start | Finish | Laps | Status | Led |
| 2/17/2002 | 1 | 15 | 199/200 | running | 0 |
| 7/6/2002 | 16 | 8 | 160/160 | running | 0 |
| 2/16/2003 | 10 | 3 | 109/109 | running | 8 |
| 7/5/2003 | 11 | 18 | 160/160 | running | 3 |
| 2/15/2004 | 6 | 5 | 200/200 | running | 16 |
| 7/3/2004 | 19 | 2 | 160/160 | running | 0 |
| 2/20/2005 | 2 | 5 | 203/203 | running | 3 |
| 7/2/2005 | 3 | 6 | 160/160 | running | 0 |
| 2/19/2006 | 9 | 1 | 203/203 | running | 24 |
| 7/1/2006 | 9 | 32 | 160/160 | running | 0 |
| 2/18/2007 | 21 | 39 | 173/202 | crash | 0 |
| 7/7/2007 | 4 | 10 | 160/160 | running | 0 |
| 2/17/2008 | 1 | 27 | 202/202 | running | 1 |
JOHNSON'S 2008 SPRINT CUP STATISTICS
| Race | Site | Start | Finish | Laps | Status | Led | Points | Pt. total | Pt. pos. |
| 1 | Daytona | 1 | 27 | 200/200 | Running | 1 | 87 | 87 | 25 |
| 2 | Fontana | 1 | 2 | 250/250 | Running | 76 | 180 | 267 | 8 |
| 3 | Las Vegas | 33 | 29 | 265/267 | Running | 0 | 76 | 343 | 14 |
| 4 | Atlanta | 13 | 13 | 325/325 | Running | 0 | 124 | 467 | 13 |
| 5 | Bristol | 1 | 18 | 504/506 | Running | 14 | 114 | 581 | 13 |
| 6 | Martinsville | 10 | 4 | 500/500 | Running | 135 | 165 | 746 | 10 |
| 7 | Texas | 5 | 2 | 339/339 | Running | 65 | 175 | 921 | 6 |
| 8 | Phoenix | 7 | 1 | 312/312 | Running | 120 | 195 | 1116 | 4 |
| 9 | Talladega | 10 | 13 | 188/188 | Running | 1 | 129 | 1245 | 5 |
| 10 | Richmond | 12 | 30 | 400/410 | Running | 0 | 73 | 1318 | 7 |
| 11 | Darlington | 3 | 13 | 367/367 | Running | 0 | 124 | 1442 | 6 |
| 12 | Charlotte | 10 | 39 | 351/400 | Engine | 35 | 51 | 1493 | 9 |
| 13 | Dover | 4 | 7 | 399/400 | Running | 2 | 151 | 1644 | 7 |
| 14 | Pocono | 2 | 6 | 200/200 | Running | 59 | 155 | 1799 | 6 |
| 15 | Michigan | 6 | 6 | 203/203 | Running | 65 | 160 | 1959 | 5 |
| 16 | Infineon | 2 | 15 | 112/112 | Running | 27 | 123 | 2082 | 5 |
| 17 | New Hampshire | 23 | 9 | 284/284 | Running | 0 | 138 | 2170 | 5 |
JOHNSON'S YEAR-BY-YEAR CUP STATISTICS
| Year | Starts | Wins | Top-5s | Top-10s | Poles | Final pts |
| 2001 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 52 |
| 2002 | 36 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 4 | 5 |
| 2003 | 36 | 3 | 14 | 20 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 36 | 8 | 20 | 23 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 36 | 4 | 13 | 22 | 1 | 5 |
| 2006 | 36 | 5 | 13 | 24 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 36 | 10 | 20 | 24 | 4 | 1 |
NO. 48 AT-TRACK CREW LIST
| Name | Shop Job | Track Job | Hometown |
| Knaus, Chad | Crew Chief 48 | Crew Chief 48 | Rockford, IL |
| Bazzell, Kyle | Truck Driver 48 | Truck Driver 48 | Fairburg, IL |
| Bosserman, Todd | Shock Specialist 48 | Shock Specialist 48 | Waynesboro, VA |
| Bradshaw, Marcia | N/A | Scorer 48 | Charlotte, NC |
| Claridge, Joe | Mechanic | Mechanic 48 | Barrington, NH |
| Emerick, Danny | Engine Tuner | Engine Tuner 48 | Bryn Mawr, PA |
| Evans, Brandon | Engineer | Engineer | South Hill, VA |
| Gober, Ken | Truck Driver 48 | Truck Driver 48 | Manchester, NH |
| Gutierrez, Rich | Mechanic | Gas Man 48 | Yorba Linda, CA |
| Ives, Greg | Race Engineer | Race Engineer 48 | Bark River, MI |
| Kerlin, Sean | Mechanic | Tire Specialist 48 | Marysville, PA |
| Knauer, Mike | Mechanic | Catch Can 48 | Cambridge, MD |
| Lingerfelt, Mike | Mechanic | Front Tire Changer 48 | Greenville, SC |
| Malec, Ron | Mechanic | Car Chief 48/Rear Tire Carrier 48 | Franklin, WI |
| Morin, Greg | Pit Crew Coach | Pit Crew Coach | Waltham, MA |
| Nicely, Bobby | Asst. Pit Crew Coach | Asst. Pit Crew Coach | Virginia Beach, VA |
| Puchalski, Marc | Mechanic 48 | Mechanic 48 | San Jose, CA |
| Purcell, Kenneth | Mechanic | Jackman 48 | Savannah, GA |
| Reeves, Stevie | Machinist | Spotter 48 | Speedway, IN |
| Simmons, Art | Chassis Set Up | Front Tire Carrier 48 | Kirksville, MO |
| West, Jeremy | Mechanic | Rear Tire Changer 48 | Harbor City, CA |
