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Daytona 500: Jimmie Johnson savors Third-place end, robust Legacy Motor Membership exhibiting
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Daytona 500: Jimmie Johnson savors Third-place end, robust Legacy Motor Membership exhibiting

By Miles Cooper February 17, 2025
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DAYTONA BEACH — Seven-time Cup Collection champion survived and savored landmark achievements as driver and workforce proprietor Sunday night time.

The 49-year-old legend scored a third-place end within the Nice American Race, his greatest exhibiting since successful for the second time in 2013. As well as, Legacy Motor Membership’s two full-time vehicles ran fifth (John Hunter Nemechek) and twelfth (Erik Jones), regardless of the latter absorbing harm in a .

“This feels unimaginable, and I’ve feelings that I did not count on to have,” stated Johnson, who bought an possession stake in Petty GMS Motorsports in 2022 and rebranded the workforce the next season. “I’ve by no means been on this place as an proprietor. It is actually opened up a distinct set of feelings. The pleasure that I’ve on this end result, and the pleasure that I’ve on this firm and what we’re making an attempt to attain and the journey we’re on, I am so glad and so completely happy proper now.”

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Daytona 500: Jimmie Johnson savors Third-place end, robust Legacy Motor Membership exhibiting

Within the second lap of additional time, Johnson got here off Flip 2 in twelfth place — a logjam shaped behind former champions Denny Hamlin and Austin Cindric as they battled for the lead. Cole Custer slid to the surface, misplaced management and swept up Hamlin, Cindric and several other others as escaped the wreckage to clinch his second consecutive Daytona 500 title.

Johnson held his place in the course of a three-wide pack, handed Nemechek on the appropriate and surged round pole sitter Chase Briscoe to comply with Byron and Tyler Reddick to the checkered flag.

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“Fortunately, Denny’s automobile, the course it went, stayed up in opposition to the surface wall for a time period and allowed some vehicles to get by, and I used to be one,” Johnson stated.

“I have been right here 22 occasions now, and the seas do not half like that each time. So I am glad I received one in my favor.”

Johnson competed in 12 Cup Collection races over the earlier two seasons, together with each the 2023 and ’24 Daytona 500s. He positioned thirty first and twenty eighth, respectively.

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Byron, who grew to become the youngest multi-time Daytona 500 champion in historical past, relished one other probability to race with former Hendrick Motorsports teammate Johnson.

“At one level, I used to be behind Jimmie with like 25 laps to go. Simply seeing him nonetheless on the market wheeling, his automobile was fairly unfastened, and he is simply throwing it round,” Byron stated. “That is simply Jimmie.”

Johnson secured a spot within the discipline for his Shaquille O’Neal-designed No. 84 Toyota on velocity Wednesday. From his viewpoint within the white-flag lap, a top-10 exhibiting would have been “good.”

However, a top-three end with the additional benefit of not needing to organize for an additional race till Memorial Day Weekend’s Coca-Cola 600?

“It implies that I can get after it tonight and have a good time with my workforce,” Johnson stated. “Usually, I would be frightened about recovering and preparing for the following race.

“One factor I didn’t do as a full-time driver was savor the moments, and I am going to have the ability to savor this one.”

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