Jimmie Johnson Captures the Nextel Cup

Jimmie Johnson ended the NASCAR Racing season with the Nextel Cup championship. Barely.

Hard though he tried, Jimmie Johnson just couldn't give another Nextel Cup championship away this season. After a pit stop scare and an accident on the track that almost took his car out of the race along with his Nextel Cup championship hopes, Jimmie Johnson got through it.

Johnson completed his dream season Sunday by cruising over every speedbump in his path, finally winning the NASCAR championship that had taunted him the past two years.

The perpetual points leader for the past three regular seasons only to collapse once the Chase began, Johnson finally put an entire year together, wrapping it up with a 9th-place finish at Homestead-Miami Speedway.It handed him his first NASCAR title by an 51-point lead over Matt Kenseth.

"Yeah, it's incredible," said Johnson, in his typically low-key tone. "These guys are incredible. This team has really come into its own in the last year."Greg Biffle won the Ford 400 for the third straight season, beating rookies Martin Truex Jr. and Denny Hamlin to the finish line. Kasey Kahne was fourth and Kevin Harvick rounded out the top five. Kenseth was sixth.

Juan Pablo Montoya made his first Nextel Cup start since leaving F1 racing. He ran as high as 13th place but, just like what he was in F1, ended his race in a fiery wreck. Things never change huh?