How Jimmie Johnson, Hendrick Motorsports Keep Racking Up Sprint Cup Titles

The first thing one notices upon a visit to the sprawling Hendrick Motorsports complex in Concord, N.C, on the outskirts of Charlotte, is how clean every nook and cranny of the place is. In the rooms where they build and test the engines, it looks like you could eat off the floors—or off the top of any of the engines that arranged in perfect order all around. That may seem to have very little to do with why driver Jimmie Johnson just wrapped up his sixth NASCAR Sprint Cup championship, but it actually has everything to do with it. To understand how Johnson and crew chief Chad Knaus have racked up six titles in the last eight years, you have to understand the behemoth that is Hendrick Motorsports, where no detail is too tiny ...

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