JIMMIE JOHNSON'S 2025 INDUCTION SPEECH TO THE NASCAR HALL OF FAME
========== Transcript of Jimmie's Speech ============
Thanks everyone for gathering here tonight. I'm proud to be part of the NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2025. Sorry to hear that Mr. Waltrip didn't make the cut again. Don't worry Darrell, 2026 is going to be your year.
The Hall of Fame Museum looks great. All the exhibits look pristine, the cars look amazing. It's like nobody's been here in years.
A lot of folks thought my 15 consecutive championships from 2005 to 2020 was bad for the sport. They tried to Jimmie-proof the Chase. People have been complaining about that for years. I can remember a time back in 2010 when NASCAR races on TV drew fewer viewers than MTV reality shows.
Sure NASCAR is in a slump with other sports getting more viewers. But NASCAR has been resurgent in recent years. In total viewership, NASCAR is just behind the rankings of the NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL, WNBA, the revived USFL, Ladies Professional Pool, ESPN's Beer Burps League and reruns of Designing Women ... so that's progress.
As I stand before you as a Hall of Fame Inductee for 2025, I owe a lot of my success to my crew chief Chad Knaus. It was a travesty when Chad was ruled ineligible due to his status as an actual robot. The entire team was happy to see Chad reinstated when President Schwarzenegger passed the Robot Anti-Discrimination Act of 2015.
I faced a lot of great competition over the years that made me a better race car driver. My thanks to Denny Hamlin for consistently turning it on just a little too late every year to catch me. Thanks to Tony Stewart for gambling on pit stops for years when he didn't have to and Kyle Busch for his dogged determination to win the Nationwide Cup every year at the expense of his Sprint Cup team. Most importantly, my thanks to Jeff Gordon who took a chance on a kid from El Cajon. Jeff couldn't be here tonight. Earlier this evening I beat him to the Hall's parking lot and he sulked back home.
I also want to thank my family for their love and support. Racing has been good to me and on top of everything, I won my bet with Brett Favre as to who would retire first.
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Jimmie wouldnt have four championships if he didnt have Chad. As for JJ and JG married to beautiful women and with children....lots of gay people get married and lots of them have children. Marriage or children doesnt mean anything.
I wonder how many will watch the HOF induction when JJ goes in. I know I wont.
Jimmy Johnson is simply a great driver, and Chad Knaus is brilliant.
I loved Richard Petty back in the 70's and I don't remember anybody
pissing and moaning that he won 200 races. Dale Earnhardt won 7
championships and a lot of races by knocking people out of his way.
People didn't complain about that either.
At least Jimmy wins his races like a gentleman, just like Richard Petty,
and doesn't have to knock people out of the way to do it, either!
Obviously, he's not going to win forever, it's only a matter of time before
Kyle Busch, Mayfield or Joey Logano win the Nascar championship.
As for Nascar tv ratings going down that's bull shit. I used to watch
pro football, but my favorite players were always getting mangled, so
I switched to Nascar.
I saw a stupid video on the Internet that accused Jimmie Johnson and
Jeff Gordon of being gay. If they are, how come both are married to
gorgeous women and have kids????
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wow...yall Jimmie Johnson haters are forreal big babies..... its talent people. if yall dont like it its yall's problem. people dont like kyle busch or dale earnhardt jr. so we all should be mature bout all this. Jimmie Johnson is not gay. And will someday be in the NASCAR like all the other drivers who are just as amazing as jimmie. people who dis driver and aint a sport bout it aint nascar fans there just hipocrites (sorry cant spell) So if you dont like Jimmies talent stop watchin nascar. aint gonna bother me better seats for me at the race track. Im a dieheart johnson fan but i respect all the other driver even if i dont like them.