Jimmie Johnson returns to NASCAR in San Diego

Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson inactive has nary plans to discontinue from the wheel. The Legacy Motor Club proprietor announced that helium volition instrumentality to the instrumentality of the No. 84 car successful 2026, astatine slightest for 1 contention — his location contention successful San Diego. The metropolis volition big its first-ever NASCAR weekend, scheduled for June 21, 2026, astatine Naval Base Coronado, and Carvana volition erstwhile again beryllium Johnson’s sponsor.

“Growing up conscionable a fewer miles from San Diego, I dreamed of driving a NASCAR car present 1 day, but I ne'er thought it would beryllium possible. I conscionable realized determination would ne'er beryllium country for a way successful the city,” Johnson said. “That’s wherefore it’s unthinkable to maine that NASCAR is making this happen. To travel home, thrust successful beforehand of my community, the military, my household and friends, and to bash it with Carvana and Legacy Motor Club, is 1 of those experiences that you retrieve for a lifetime. This is simply a imagination that lasts a lifetime.”

Subtitle: imagination becomes reality

"When I deliberation astir everything this athletics has fixed maine and wherever it each started, the feeling of riding successful San Diego astatine this level makes my vocation travel afloat circle. I started connected 2 wheels, racing motorcycles astir the West Coast, and present I get to thrust connected 4 wheels successful the aforesaid portion - thing I ne'er thought I'd experience. Also, my grandparents were successful the subject and are buried astatine Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery adjacent the base, truthful it's an grant to thrust determination - this is going to beryllium precise especially.”

Johnson competed successful 2 races this year, including the Daytona 500, wherever helium finished third. It was his archetypal apical 5 effect since helium retired from full-time and bought a involvement successful the Legacy Motor Club.

No different races person been announced for Johnson successful 2026, and it is not known if San Diego volition beryllium his past effort down the instrumentality of a Cup car. The awesome operator points retired that the acquisition of driving successful beforehand of the section assemblage and the subject is peculiarly affectional for him and that helium sees this travel arsenic a closing ellipse successful his career.