No pressure?

With Jimmie Johnson and his team in a relative slump of late, talk of a possible record-tying seventh champion for the driver of the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet has subsided.

Given Johnson’s prowess on the 10 NASCAR postseason tracks, however, his chances of equaling the number of titles accumulated by Richard Petty and the late

Dale Earnhardt can’t be discounted.

To Johnson, though, the record won’t be on his mind — until the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, where the four remaining drivers in the Chase will race for the championship, with the top finisher among the four claiming the title.

“I don’t think I’ll feel the pressure to try to tie our two greats in our sport until it’s right there in front of me,” Johnson said. “Right now, it’s just the championship.

“If I get to Homestead and have a chance and I’m one of the four, as much as I want to push that out of my mind that I’m racing for history, it will be there and I won’t be able to hide from it at that point.”