Johnson and Knaus, Better Together

Some time ago not long ago Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus were considering to split. Their combination worked well during the regular season until NASCAR's playoffs got going, it was until that moment that they realized that something wasn't right. They had success but they couldn’t bring it to the finish.
They couldn't carry their success through to the finish. So Rick Hendrick the car owner, he chose to sit down with them and made them decide if the relationship should continue. They chose to stick it out. And this year, they worked it out. No bad luck, no ill-timed wreck, no gremlin in the machinery was going to deny Johnson his long overdue Nextel Cup title Sunday.
It was a decision they really had to make; they had to decide if they wanted to be together. They finally made that decision, and when things got tough this year, they cinched it up between the two of them. They're as good of a combination as there has ever been in racing. They proved it with a banner season, a Daytona 500 victory and they won at the prestigious Indianapolis Motor Speedway. They also won all but four of the 22 regular-season weeks on top of the points’ standings.

Besides all that, Jimmie Johnson opened and closed the 2006 NASCAR Nextel Cup season on top, for very different reasons. The year began with the controversial suspension of his crew chief, who was caught cheating before the Daytona 500 and was kicked out of the garage for four weeks. It ended with Johnson and Chad Knaus hoisting the Nextel Cup trophy as the championship team.

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