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| Jimmie Johnson has 11 wins at Dover. |
“We are very excited for this weekend at Dover. It’s hands down my favorite track, and from the pictures I have seen, there is a lot of Ally signage all over the place. It’s a homecoming of sorts. Performance-wise, last weekend at the DAYTONA Road Course we had a solid day. We needed that. Because of our fourth-place finish, we will be starting sixth Saturday at Dover, which is really an advantage to where we have been starting lately. With the random draw and the way track position has been working out, I feel like we have had things stacked against us for a while. This will be a good advantage for us, and we just have to go out there and get it done.”
JOHNSON’S PLAYGROUND: Jimmie Johnson is just one win shy of matching the record for the most all-time at Dover International Speedway. He currently has 11 wins while NASCAR Hall of Famer Darrell Waltrip has 12. Johnson has led the most laps of any other driver at Dover with 3,110, which is 307 more than second-place Bobby Allison. His 9.92 average finish across 36 Dover starts is the third-best among active drivers, and he has a total of 25 top-10 finishes there. In the five races since his last “Monster Mile” win in June 2017, Johnson has three top-10 results at the track.
MONSTER ALLY: Ally Financial, a leading digital financial-services company and the primary sponsor of 11-time Dover winner and seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Johnson, will be the presenting partner of the track’s Monster Monument at Victory Plaza and the Monster Bridge suite complex overlooking Turn 3. Earlier this week, the No. 48 Ally Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE was installed into the waiting hand of the Monster Monument at Victory Plaza, presented by Ally. Click here for more.
DOWNLOADING WITH DALE: This week Johnson joined former Hendrick Motorsports teammate Dale Earnhardt Jr. on the popular “Dale Jr. Download” podcast where he unveiled his Darlington Raceway “throwback” paint scheme and talked about his final season of full-time racing. Portions of the podcast will air on Saturday, Aug. 22 on NBC Sports Network before the NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover. Click here for the full podcast, which is available now.
SITE OF LAST WIN: Not only has Johnson shared tremendous success at Dover but it was the site of his most recent points win. On June 4, 2017, he led for seven laps but it was enough to put him in contention to drive the No. 48 to victory lane for the 11th time at the 1-mile concrete oval, tying him for sixth on NASCAR’s all-time wins list.
8-BIT GAME: Ally recently launched an 8-bit web-based video game for fans to enjoy. The free 1980s-style game can be played at www.allyracer.com. Players must steer around obstacles like oil slicks, tire debris and other cars while trying to beat the clock and other race cars to the checkered flag. Hitting financial targets, literally, generates bonus points by driving through Ally Financial "rewards" such as coins and plum-colored dollar bills that pop up on the track. Those rewards are banked for future use, so players can choose when to withdraw the rewards and help boost their score as they reach more challenging levels within the game.
NEW-LOOK 48: Johnson and Ally Financial chief marketing officer Andrea Brimmer felt the No. 48 team would benefit from a championship-caliber reset as it pushes to make the playoffs this season. Revealed last week, the new white-based No. 48 Ally Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE will serve as his primary paint scheme for the remainder of the 2020 season. Johnson playfully called the new look the “rALLY” car on his social media channels. Click here for photos of the scheme.
PLAYOFF PUSH: After last weekend’s solid fourth-place finish at the DAYTONA Road Course, Johnson is 17th in points, just 25 below the cut line with three races remaining in the push to the playoffs.
HELMET OF HOPE: This weekend, Johnson will wear the Blue Bunny Helmet of Hope, which honors five charities that support K-12 public education. This year, the program was expanded to allow non-profits that provide services to school-age students who have been directly impacted by the COVID-19 crisis to participate. In addition to being featured on Johnson’s helmet, each of the recipients were also awarded a $25,000 grant and a Blue Bunny Ice Cream party. This year’s grant recipients are: DMF Youth Inc. (New York City); Foodbank of Siouxland (Sioux City, Iowa); National Mental Health Association of Georgia (Atlanta); TABLE Inc. (Carrboro, North Carolina) and Working in the Schools (Chicago).
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