“If you’re lost, you can look and you will find me, time after time.” Cyndi Lauper, who recorded the pop song “Time After Time” in 1984, may not be looking for Jimmie Johnson. But perhaps the best advice for anyone trying to find Johnson at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway after Sunday’s Goody’s Headache Relief Shot 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race is to head to victory lane.
That’s because Johnson is third on the all-time win list at Martinsville. His win at the paper-clip shaped track last April made him the all-time winner among active drivers with eight victories, breaking a tie he had held with Rusty Wallace and Jeff Gordon. Only Richard Petty, with 15, and Darrell Waltrip, with 11, have more. Johnson also holds the series’ best driver rating at the track and has finished outside the top-10 only three times in 23 races. And two of those three finishes were 12th– and 11th-place runs.
Johnson will be going for his third consecutive win at the half-mile oval this weekend. And after taking over the lead in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup by four points from Matt Kenseth last Sunday at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, he may take some solace in the fact he is headed to a track where he has managed to find victory lane “Time After Time.”
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