He came into the final race race of the season tonight leading Ron Hornaday by 3 points in the championship (second closest race in Nascar history). For most of the night he was terrible. Riding around in about 10 place while Hornaday led laps and took the championship lead.
Benson stayed on the track with 10 laps to go, passed Hornaday who pitted and then held him off at the end - Benson finished four tenths of a second ahead of Hornaday and took the title.
Johnny is a really nice guy - the championship was back and forth all season long - the race was back and forth all night long - I gave up on Johnny 7 times - but he won it.
In the end, Johnny won by 7 points. Johnny is one of the nicest guys in racing and because of that he has not always had a lot of success. Fun to see the underdog win.
Who cares you ask? I do!!!! And it is my blog so..... woot Woot!!!! :)
Johnny in the #23 truck.
PS. Lenny and I were in Bill Davis' shop in Charlotte - walked up to Johnny's truck in the garage - one that looked just like this..... maybe that is why he won.... the "Pippus Luck" (No wait - the Pippus' name is associated with lots of things - many of which I cannot mention publicly - but luck likely is not one of them) :)
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