Let’s just go ahead and crown Jimmie Johnson the winner of Saturday’s Duck Commander 500.
Why not? He’s won the previous three races, four of the past five and five of the past seven races. The stretch of time between the 2007 fall race, his first win at Texas, and the 2012 fall race, when he won his second, seems like an eternity compared to his current success.
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He leads all other drivers at Texas in wins (six), top 10s (19) and laps led (1,023).