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Johnson, Knaus enter NASCAR HoF together alongside Donnie Allison

Call them inseparable. Despite a few rough patches in their 17-year working relationship, driver Jimmie Johnson and crew chief Chad Knaus achieved a level of success at NASCAR’s highest level unparalleled in the current century. Together, on Friday …

Call them inseparable.

Despite a few rough patches in their 17-year working relationship, driver Jimmie Johnson and crew chief Chad Knaus achieved a level of success at NASCAR’s highest level unparalleled in the current century.

Together, on Friday night in the Crown Ballroom at the Charlotte Convention Center, Johnson and Knaus reaped the rewards of their remarkable accomplishments — induction into the NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2024 in their first year of eligibility.

Johnson and Knaus entered the Hall along with Donnie Allison, elected to NASCAR’s highest honor from the Pioneer Ballot. An original member of the famed Alabama Gang, Allison helped elevate stock car racing’s visibility with both his driving skills and his fists.

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Johnson earned high praise from Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon, who lobbied on Johnson’s behalf when team owner Rick Hendrick considered adding a fourth team in 2002.

“He’s the best driver I ever raced against,” Gordon said in a video introducing his teammate.

In his acceptance speech, Johnson demurred with typical modesty, opening his remarks with a story about the motorcycle he found under the Christmas tree in 1979.

“I realize how many people played a role in this Hall of Fame induction,” Johnson said later in the speech. “Thank you to my family, friends, fans — everyone at Jimmie Johnson Racing, former team members and teammates, everyone who has been part of this journey.

“This success story of seven championships and 83 wins, and now this, is all about relationships. I’m truly grateful for the journey and the amazing relationships forged and the incredible companies I’ve represented like Lowe’s and Ally.

“Whether on two wheels or four, in SoCal or Charlotte, in the driver’s seat or up on top of the pit box, moonlighting as race car mechanic or driving a school bus (as his parents did), whether you’re looking up to your heroes, driving for them or competing against them… if you’re with us now or up in heaven, thank you for being a crucial part of this incredible run.

“This is beyond my wildest dreams — and I thought Christmas morning in 1979 was special.”

Johnson reserved special praise for his teammate and team owner.

“I’m forever grateful to Jeff Gordon and Rick Hendrick,” Johnson said after receiving the Hall of Fame ring from his wife Chani. “You guys selected me for the No. 48 car, and I’m still not sure why.”

“Congrats, brother,” Johnson said to Knaus. “I’m so glad that we’re able to go in on the same ballot.”

After Tony Stewart won the 2005 series title, Johnson embarked on a remarkable run, claiming a record five straight championships from 2006 through 2010 — a streak broken only by Stewart’s unexpected third title in 2011.

The pairing of Johnson and Knaus almost ended before the streak began. At the end of the 2005 season, they were barely speaking, and team owner Rick Hendrick considered splitting them up.

Before making a decision, Hendrick invited Johnson and Knaus to a meeting and served them milk and cookies on Mickey Mouse plates.

“If you’re going to act like children, I’m going to treat you like children,” was Hendrick’s blunt message to his driver and crew chief.

Hendrick made his point, and with the ice broken, the pair became NASCAR’s version of the “Untouchables” for the next five years.

“That shift allowed us to become champions,” Knaus said.

The five straight Cup championships eclipsed NASCAR Hall of Famer Cale Yarborough’s previous mark of three straight (1976-78) and is one entry in the NASCAR record book that likely will remain unassailable. With two non-consecutive titles each, Kyle Busch and Joey Logano are the only active full-time Cup drivers with more than one.

Johnson added championships in 2013 and 2016, tying the record of seven held jointly by Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr., both members of the inaugural NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2010. He won his last Cup race — a track-record 11th victory at Dover Motor Speedway — on June 4, 2017, marking the 16th consecutive year he and Knaus had teamed to win at least two events.

That victory was Johnson’s 83rd, tying him with Yarborough for sixth on the career list. The book on Johnson’s career, however, is not quite closed. As co-owner of NASCAR Cup Series entry Legacy Motor Club, he will compete in select races this season, starting with the season-opening Daytona 500 on Feb. 18.

Knaus’s wife Brooke presented the 2024 inductee ring to her husband.

“As I was growing up in the Midwest, my father taught me what it meant to have the best race cars,” Knaus said during his induction speech, “to have the proper maintenance schedule, to never settle for second and to continuously learn — and to always push the rules.”

Thanking his driver of 17 years, Knaus said, “Jimmie let me find out who I was by believing in me.”

A brilliant innovator dedicated to making Johnson’s No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolets go faster, Knaus manned the pit box for 81 of Johnson’s 83 Cup wins, having been sidelined under suspension for the first two victories of 2006 for pushing the rules too far in trying to gain an aerodynamic advantage at Daytona.

After the Johnson/Knaus pairing ended following the 2018 season, Knaus served as crew chief for William Byron’s first career victory in the summer 2020 race at Daytona. In 2021, Knaus took on a management role as vice president of competition at Hendrick Motorsports.

From a career standpoint, Knaus’s seven championships as a crew chief are second only to NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Inman’s eight. His 82 victories are third all-time.

Allison and brother Bobby Allison accumulated the second-most Cup victories by two brothers (94), a number exceeded only by Kyle and Kurt Busch, who have accounted for 97 wins (with Kyle still active at 63).

Donnie Allison earned his greatest notoriety, however, after he had won the last of his 10 races (1978 at Atlanta). He and Yarborough were battling for the lead on the final lap of the 1979 Daytona 500, the first race featuring live flag-to-flag coverage on national network television, and after repeated contact between their cars, they both wrecked at the end of the backstretch.

The drivers climbed from their cars with anger in their eyes and started the fight that would captivate the television audience with its intensity. After Richard Petty inherited the victory, Bobby Allison parked his car near in Turn 3 and joined the fray, as the Alabama drivers ganged up on the South Carolinian.

The race and the fisticuffs that followed sparked interest in the sport of stock car racing and launched the sport’s steady growth over the next two decades.

Allison is the fourth member of the Alabama Gang to enter the NASCAR Hall of Fame, joining brother Bobby, nephew Davey Allison and Hueytown patriarch Red Farmer.

Asked what the induction meant to him, Donnie replied, “The closest thing was the feeling I got when I married my lovely wife Pat.”

Allison was the 1967 Cup rookie of the year. He also turned heads with a fourth-place finish in the 1970 Indianapolis 500, earning rookie-of-the-year honors for the race.

“All I can say is wow!” Allison said during his induction speech, during which, with tongue in cheek, he disputed the characterization of his altercation with Yarborough in 1979. “Fought? I never fought… I never touched that man. He never touched me…”

During the ceremony, pioneering driver Janet Guthrie was honored as the recipient of the Landmark Award for outstanding contributions to NASCAR. An accomplished sports car racer, Guthrie finished 15th in her NASCAR Cup debut in the 1976 Coca-Cola 600 and went on to compete in 33 Cup races, with a best finish of sixth at Bristol.

NASCAR Hall of Famer Rusty Wallace received the Buddy Shuman Award for his charitable endeavors. Also recognized at the ceremony were two titans of the sport who passed away in 2023—broadcaster Ken Squier, co-founder of the Motor Racing Network, and Yarborough.

It was Squier, providing play-by-play for the 1979 Daytona 500 for CBS, who called the fight against Yarborough that Allison insists never really happened.

Squier’s legacy also extends to the Squier-Hall Award of Media Excellence, conferred on the late Shav Glick of the Los Angeles Times this year.

For the Johnson and Knaus partnership, the HoF is another step in a long journey

The scenario of Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus being selected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame together was mostly discussed between the two back when they were still competing. And like most deep and meaningful conversations between friends, it was done …

The scenario of Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus being selected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame together was mostly discussed between the two back when they were still competing. And like most deep and meaningful conversations between friends, it was done after dark.

“Other than late-night after-dinner drink conversations, we haven’t had any conversations since it was announced on the ballot,” Knaus said. “But across our years, we definitely talked about wanting to get into the Hall of Fame, wanting to continue to do what’s next.”

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On Wednesday afternoon, the scenario played out as expected for many within the NASCAR industry. Johnson and Knaus, in their first year on the ballot, were called to the NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2024.

“It just hit when we were sitting in the back room a moment ago when we had finished the race in Le Mans, we had kind of stood back and said, what’s next?” Knaus said. “Surely didn’t think the Hall of Fame would be the next thing on the docket for us, but hopefully, this is just the next step in many, many experiences for the both of us.”

NASCAR announced the nominees last month. Johnson and Knaus were the headliners.

The 24 Hours of Le Mans also took place last month. Johnson was part of an All-Star driver rotation with Jenson Button and Mike Rockenfeller that completed the race in a modified Next Gen car in the Garage 56 category. Knaus was also on the program fielded by NASCAR and Hendrick Motorsports.

“I can’t remember how the timelines have unfolded because so much has happened in our lives the last couple of months, but I feel like around Le Mans is when at least I realized the opportunity that was in front of us and kind of joked about it,” Johnson said. “But we didn’t put a ton into it. But I’d say in the last week or so, it’s really been top of mind and I’ve been trying to assure him that he would be a first ballot and we would go in together, and he’s like, ‘Man, you’re crazy.’

“Then we joked about being here and then everybody reading the ballots and it not working out, and how that wouldn’t be fun to experience, so I’m glad that it’s all played out and it’s so fitting for us to be both being going together.”

Johnson and Knaus were, by far, the standouts on the Modern Era ballot. Johnson is one of three drivers to have won seven Cup Series championships, but he was the first driver to win five consecutive. His 83 career victories are tied for sixth on the all-time wins list.

Knaus was the first crew chief to accomplish the feat of five consecutive championships. He stands behind only Dale Inman (eight) in overall championship titles.

Paired together for 17 years, Johnson and Knaus earned 81 victories. Among those were triumphs in the sport’s biggest races: the Daytona 500, four Coca-Cola 600s, four Brickyard 400 and two Southern 500s.

“I’m extremely honored to be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame and to have this opportunity with Chad,” Johnson said. “We accomplished the (81) wins, the seven championships and all that together, so to go in (together) is so fitting and very special and unique.

“When I knew my name was going on the ballot and found out Chad’s name was as well, this has been in the back of my mind, really hoping this opportunity would come about. I know I’m very, very proud of what we accomplished, and the fact that we get to enjoy this moment, relive all those memories, and go into the Hall together makes this all the more special.”

NASCAR reveals 2024 Hall of Fame nominees, including Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus

There are 15 total nominees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame class of 2024.

NASCAR on Wednesday revealed its nominees for the Hall of Fame class of 2024, and it should come as a surprise to no one that seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson is on the list for his first year of eligibility.

Johnson, his seven-time champion crew chief, Chad Knaus, and Donnie Allison are the three newcomers, bringing this year’s total number of nominees to 15. Johnson and Knaus are on NASCAR’s Modern Era Ballot, while Allison is on the Pioneer Ballot, a separate category to celebrate drivers who began their careers more than 60 years ago.

Per NASCAR, two inductees will be selected from the Modern Era Ballot and one from the Pioneer Ballot.

Here’s a look at the 15 nominees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame class of 2024.

Knaus explains Hendrick position on hood louver dispute

Chad Knaus was adamant Friday at Atlanta Motor Speedway that teams are not being given single-sourced supplied parts with correct specifications and Hendrick Motorsports only made the modifications to the hood louvers that resulted in penalties for …

Chad Knaus was adamant Friday at Atlanta Motor Speedway that teams are not being given single-sourced supplied parts with correct specifications and Hendrick Motorsports only made the modifications to the hood louvers that resulted in penalties for the team in order to make them fit.

“We made sure our parts fit the hood, and the hood closed and did all the stuff that it needed to do,” said Knaus, Hendrick Motorsports’ vice president of competition (pictured at left, above, with team owner Rick Hendrick).

NASCAR confiscated the hood louvers from all four cars the Friday of Phoenix weekend. Although issues were found beforehand, all four teams were allowed to participate in practice before the louvers were taken.

The teams were penalized earlier this week. In addition to $100,000 fines to all four crew chiefs and suspensions, the Nos. 5, 24, and 48 teams were docked 100 driver points, and all four teams were docked 100 owner points. There was also the loss of 10 playoff points.

“When we started to get parts at the beginning of the 2023 season, we didn’t have the parts we thought we were going to have,” Knaus said. “Through a tremendous amount of back and forth with NASCAR and the OEM and the teams, there’s been conversations about whether we can clean up the parts, not clean up the parts and it’s changed, quite honestly, every couple of weeks. So, it’s been challenging for us to navigate, and we’re going to have to see what happens when we get through the appeal.”

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Hendrick Motorsports did not request a deferral of the suspensions, and all four crew chiefs are not at the track this weekend. Without an appeal date, no decision has been made on whether the organization will continue to have Cliff Daniels, Alan Gustafson, Rudy Fugle, and Blake Harris serve those suspensions going forward.

In a statement issued after the penalty, Hendrick Motorsports said the louvers were taken four hours after the inspection without prior communication.

“It’s really confusing,” said Knaus. “We knew that there was some attention to the area when we first went through technical inspection, and that’s what’s really disappointing to me, quite honestly. We had plenty of time to get those parts off the part if we felt like there was something wrong. I can assure you if we knew there was going to be a four-hour lag and we thought there was something wrong, they would have been in a trash can being burned with fuel somewhere where nobody would ever see them. We had no idea we’d been sitting in this position. So, once again, really disappointing we are in the position we’re in right now.”

NASCAR expects cars to be legal when they show up at the racetrack. However, Knaus said for a voluntary inspection, he doesn’t understand the severity of a penalty seen post-race, such as with RFK Racing and Front Row Motorsports last year.

“Again, from my perspective, I think it’s different,” Knaus said. “A voluntary inspection, I don’t understand why you’d be hung and quartered for a voluntary inspection that typically you’d be told, ‘Hey, you need to go work on that,’ or, ‘Hey, we need to discuss what’s going on here.’”

Elton Sawyer, NASCAR senior vice president of competition, said officials work with the teams to ensure parts and pieces fit correctly. However, Sawyer said the louvers from Hendrick Motorsports were modified beyond that level.

Even with all the back and forth, the Hendrick Motorsports statement said there had been inconsistent and unclear communication from NASCAR.

“We submitted a part through the OEM to NASCAR and NASCAR chose a single-source provider for those components,” Knaus said. “The components haven’t been coming the way we expected them to be for a couple of the OEMs, as far as I know, in the garage, and definitely all of the Chevrolet teams.

“We started to have a dialogue with them in early February about those problems. So, it was us through our aerodynamic departments, through our OEM, back through NASCAR, back to us and back through our OEMs. So, there is a significant amount of communication that’s been had and it’s definitely confusing. The timelines are curious, but they’re there.”

Asked if he thought the parts were faulty or if they modified the parts to be acceptable by NASCAR’s standards, Knaus said, “I can tell you this, we’ve got a brand-new set of these parts that we can go pull off the shelf right now that NASCAR deemed illegal and inappropriate to race.”

Knaus denied Hendrick Motorsports learned something from the Garage 56 program to apply to its Cup Series cars. With a different engine and cooling package, Knaus said nothing translates.

Alex Bowman dropped from the point lead to 23rd in the standings with negative playoff 10 playoff points. William Byron dropped to 29th and has three playoff points, losing the 10 from his Las Vegas and Phoenix Raceway wins. Kyle Larson is 32nd in the standings with negative nine playoff points.

Knaus said every part of the penalty is harsh.

“I think it’s a terrible situation not only for us but the industry, to be quite honest with you. I think that’s what I dislike the most. It’s ugly. We shouldn’t be in this situation and it’s really unfortunate we are because it doesn’t help anybody.

“We as a company and we in the garage, every one of these teams here are being held accountable to put their car out there to go through inspection and perform at the level they need to. The teams are being held accountable for doing that. Nobody is holding the single-source suppliers accountable at the level they need to be to give us the parts that we need. Now that goes through NASCAR’s distribution center and NASCAR’s approval process to get those parts, and we’re not getting the right parts.”

Chad Knaus, one of NASCAR’s most successful crew chiefs, on his decision to leave the pit box

Seven-time champion crew chief Chad Knaus explained his “tough decision” to move from crew chief to Hendrick Motorsports exec.

Jimmie Johnson retiring at the end of the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season isn’t the only major change in Hendrick Motorsports’ future. Chad Knaus is leaving the pit box to become an executive with the team, Hendrick announced Tuesday.

Working together from 2002 to 2018, Knaus and Johnson were an unparalleled and dominant duo and won seven championships together. But after the 2018 season, the iconic pair broke up, and Knaus became the crew chief for William Byron and Hendrick’s No. 24 Chevrolet team.

But Knaus is moving up, and after the 2020 season ends, he’ll become Hendrick Motorsports’ vice president of competition and will oversee the organization’s personnel four-car group, as well as the team’s technical development. He’ll also likely be integral in implementing NASCAR’s new Next-Gen car in 2022.

On a Zoom press conference Thursday, Knaus explained that while he’s excited about the promotion and eager to take on new challenges, he’s ready to cut back on traveling and spend more time with his family. His explanation echoed some of Johnson’s reasons for not wanting to be on the road full-time anymore.

“Everything is about timing, and it seemed like the right time,” Knaus said.

When FOX Sports’ Bob Pockrass asked about his emotions over leaving the pit box after the season-finale at Phoenix Raceway in November, Knaus said:

“Well, there’s a ton of emotions, obviously, Bob. I’ve been doing this a long time. So, it was a tough decision to try to figure out what I wanted to do, but it’s the right decision for everybody and all parties involved. …

“Myself, my family, it’s time for me to try to make a change to where I can spend more time with them and try to help impact the company as a whole. So sitting on top of the pit box for as long as I have — I’ve been traveling full-time since I was about 16 years old, so it’s time to kind of pull back just a little bit and not be on the road every single week and spend some time with my family.”

Forty-nine-year-old Knaus has 82 career wins — all with Hendrick Motorsports and all but one with Johnson. Knaus’ most recent victory was with Byron, who took his first career checkered flag at Daytona International Speedway in August.

With such an accomplished resume, it might be tempting to want to add more to it. But he, understandably, doesn’t want NASCAR’s grueling nine-month schedule to keep him away from his 2-year-old son, Kipling, and baby Vivienne, who was born in July.

But while Knaus’ young family played a role in wanting to leave the pit box to become an exec, conversations about the move are not new. He said he’s been having conversations about his future with team owner Rick Hendrick and others for years.

He explained:

“Mr. Hendrick and I have been talking about this for quite some time. I’ve talked about it with Jimmie for quite some time. Jeff Gordon and I have talked about it for probably three years, maybe four, in that area. So we’ve been talking about it for quite some time. Everything has to be right on timing, and Mr. Hendrick is a master at putting things together at the right time. We feel like now is the time.

“We talked about doing it before I went over to the No. 24 car. Quite honestly, I really, really wanted to get a victory in that No. 24 car. It was something I dreamt about since I was a very young man. So to be able to get that this year definitely helped tremendously. It’s all about timing, and right now is just the right time. We’re transitioning into a new vehicle with the Next Gen car. I really want to try to help get that car the best that we possibly can get it, so Hendrick Motorsports, our teams, our drivers can hit the ground running.”

And because Knaus obviously has known about this change longer than the rest of the NASCAR world, he’s already been savoring his final races as a crew chief. He added:

“Emotionally, in Phoenix, I’m sure it’s going to sink in. I’ve been taking it in race by race. Obviously, I’ve known about this for a while. We’ve been talking about it for a while. So, as I go to the race tracks, I’ve been soaking in the atmosphere from the drop of the green flag, looking up into the stands, seeing the fans when they’re there. All of that has been pretty high priority just to kind of absorb as much as I possibly can these last few weeks.”

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Super Start Batteries 400 at Kansas odds, picks and best bets

Previewing Thursday’s Super Start Batteries 400 Presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts at Kansas Speedway sports betting odds and lines, with NASCAR analysis, picks and tips.

The NASCAR Cup Series moves to the Kansas Speedway for the Super Start Batteries 400 Presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts. The green flag drops Thursday at 7:30 p.m. ET with the race televised on NBCSN. Below, we analyze the Super Start Batteries 400 odds and betting lines, with NASCAR picks and tips with odds from BetMGM sportsbook.

Super Start Batteries 400: What you need to know

Odds courtesy of BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated Wednesday at 8:20 a.m. ET.

Thursday’s race at Kansas Speedway will be the 29th installment since its NASCAR Cup Series debut race back in 2001 – won by Jeff Gordon.

  • Denny Hamlin took checkers in the last Kansas Cup race (Oct. 20, 2019), while Brad Keselowski raced to a win in the spring run (May 11, 2019).
  • All three manufacturers have had success at Kansas Speedway in recent seasons, with Chevrolet, Ford and Toyota each posting a win across the past three races. In the past six races, though, Toyota has three checkered flags, while Chevrolet has raced to wins in 12 of the 28 Cup races at the track.
  • Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Dillon was an upset winner last Sunday at Texas. He has an impressive 13.8 Average-Finish Position (AFP) across his past eight Kansas starts. Fellow RCR driver Tyler Reddick ended up second in Texas, and was ninth in his Kansas Cup debut last season.
  • Hendrick Motorsports driver Chase Elliott was the last driver to steer a Chevy to Victory Lane at this track and has a sparkling 2.33 AFP across his past three Kansas starts.

Who is going to win the Super Start Batteries 400?

ELLIOTT (+650 for Thursday’s race) has one win in his past three Kansas Cup starts along with three consecutive top-5 showings. While there has been a couple of upset winners the past two weekends with Cole Custer at Kentucky and Dillon winning in Texas, look for one of the favorites to come through in this one.

Elliott started 13th in his winning run at Kansas in the Fall of 2018, and the average starting position of the past three winners is 13.3.

KEVIN HARVICK (+450), of course, is among the favorites Thursday night. He leads all drivers with a 9.79 AFP (min. two Cup starts) in 28 Cup races in Kansas, picking up three victories with eight top-5 showings and 15 top-10 runs. He also leads the way among all drivers with 855 laps led.

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MARTIN TRUEX JR. (+650) went off the rails at Texas, clipping teammate Kyle Busch in the middle of the run and was never able to recover, ending up 29th. Look for MTJ to return with a vengeance at Kansas, a track where he has won twice, posting eight top-5 finishes and led 759 laps in 23 Cup starts, good for a 13.87 AFP.

Kansas Speedway long-shot bets

JIMMIE JOHNSON (+3500) has three wins in 27 career Cup starts while posting a 10.33 AFP. Of course, all of that success came with crew chief Chad Knaus at the top of JJ’s pit box. Meanwhile, the seven-time Cup champion Johnson hasn’t won since June 2017. Will he never win a Cup race again? Don’t bet on it. He’s a GREAT SMALL-UNIT PLAY at this price.

Knaus, by the way, will be away from William Byron’s team for the birth of his second child. Keith Rodden will take over crew chief duties for the No. 24.

TYLER REDDICK (+3500) had his best career Cup finish last Sunday, rolling to a second-place finish. Is it Reddick’s turn this week? This will be only his second Kansas Cup race – as mentioned above, he finished ninth last year.

Lastly, don’t forget Kansas native CLINT BOWYER (+4000) at his home track. While he has never won in 23 career starts here, he has three top-5 showings, eight top-10 runs, 63 laps led and a 15.7 AFP. One of these days he is going to win in his native Sunflower State.

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