Not to take anything away from Jimmie Johnson, but I’m curious to know why some of the media has spoken of his 3-peat as making history. This has been accomplished once before by Cale Yarborough (76-78.) History wasn’t made, it was repeated. Am I missing something? If so, I’d love to know. Please don’t come up with that modern-day-era B.S. If someone says it’s more competitive now with better cars and drivers, that’s crap. Just the facts, Maam!
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rubbercatfish
Nov 23 2008 07:58
Agree with teestudios
Nobody said he made history, but repeated it!
Now like all comparisons- there are never gona be two people or incidents that are exactly alke.
Pretty much everybody knows that they were both in different cars, different eras and things such as the # of team employeesa and technology were different.
Thing is, Jimmie got that three peat under the exact same circumstances that all his peers and fellow drivers had. Sure, he didn’t work or race under the same conditions as Cale, but her raced under the same conditions as all the othet current activce drivers. Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, Matt Kensethor any of the current drivers don’t even come close to a repeat much less a three-peat.
Same for Cale during his time. He got his three peat under the same conditions that all the cuurent drivers of his era did.
Now, depending on how you look at it, you could almost say Jimmie’s threee-peat is a bit mopre impressive since most teams have pretty much caught ontop all te existing technology behind the cars and since there is very limited room as to do what you can do to the cars.
Just think: Back in Cale’s day, they didn’t have templates and claws on the cars. Nascar didn’t have such strict rules back then as now.
In Cale’s day, your car depended more on a tweak with a screw driver or wrench more than it did an air pressure adjustment or a spring rubber.
Jimmie acomplished what only one other mman has done so far…..so:
HISTORY HAS BEEN REPEATED!
leestudios
Nov 23 2008 03:35
Re reason
He was with the same crew chief and team, Cale was not.
Also the media said he was the first one to tie the record,
not break it. When you look at the drivers that had a number of championships over the past 30 years, like Earnhardt, Gordon, etc.
none of them were able to put 3 in a row.