{"id":400224,"date":"2026-01-10T09:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/400224\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T09:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:22:22","slug":"jimmie-johnson-running-san-diego-truck-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/400224\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmie Johnson Running San Diego Truck Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jimmie Johnson<\/a> isn\u2019t just racing in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Naval Base Coronado \u2014 he\u2019ll also do so in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event at the track, TRICON Garage announced Jan. 8.<\/p>\n

Johnson will race TRICON\u2019s No. 1 in the Truck event, marking his first appearance in the series since 2008.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also the first driver announced to the No. 1, which ran full time in 2025 with a variety of entrants, for 2026.<\/p>\n

\"Jimmie<\/p>\n

Only Yesterday: Jimmie Johnson\u2019s 3-Year Ownership of Lowe\u2019s Motor Speedway<\/p>\n

Carvana will sponsor Johnson in the Truck race; it\u2019ll also do so via Legacy Motor Club\u2019s No. 84 in the Cup event, as previously announced.<\/p>\n

\u201cRacing in San Diego means everything to me \u2014 it\u2019s home,\u201d Johnson said in a team release. \u201cGetting behind the wheel of a Truck Series entry has been on my mind for a while. The competition is incredible, and doing it at a historic street race on a Navy base in my hometown? That\u2019s special. I\u2019m grateful to TRICON and Carvana for making this happen, and honestly, I can\u2019t think of a better way to honor our military and celebrate where I\u2019m from.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s lone Truck start to date came at Bristol Motor Speedway; he finished 34th after a crash.<\/p>\n

\"Donate<\/a>
\n\"Frontstretch.com\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Executive Editor\u00a0at\u00a0Frontstretch<\/p>\n

Kevin Rutherford is the executive editor of Frontstretch, a position he gained in 2025 after being the managing editor since 2015, and serving on the editing staff since 2013.<\/p>\n

At his day job, he’s a journalist covering music and rock charts at Billboard. He lives in New York City, but his heart is in Ohio — you know, like that Hawthorne Heights song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmie Johnson isn\u2019t just racing in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Naval Base Coronado \u2014 he\u2019ll also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-400224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}