NASCAR's Jimmie Johnson says next year's Daytona 500 will be final race in Cup Series

Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson announced Saturday that the 2027 Daytona 500 volition beryllium his past successful the Cup Series.

Johnson, who has taken location the checkered emblem successful the large contention twice, wants to proceed racing successful different series, possibly adjacent successful different NASCAR events, but won’t instrumentality to banal car racing’s premier level again.

"I’ve been fortunate to execute much than I ever imagined successful this sport," Johnson said. "The past six years person fixed maine the state to take wherever I vie and, much importantly, the clarity to recognize wherever I’m needed most. I americium going to absorption each of my vigor connected starring and gathering a world-class organization."

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Jimmie Johnson (#84 Legacy Motor Club Carvana Toyota) waves to the assemblage anterior to the moving of the NASCAR Cup Series Daytona 500 Duel 1 connected Feb. 12, 2026, astatine Daytona International Speedway successful Daytona Beach, Florida. (Jeff Robinson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"Jimmie Johnson is simply a champion successful each facet of his beingness – with his family, arsenic the person of LEGACY MOTOR CLUB and with his unthinkable occurrence down the wheel," Toyota vice president Tyler Gibbs said successful a statement. "As helium prepares to adjacent the section of his iconic on-track NASCAR career, we observe his bequest successful the athletics and look guardant to what we’ll proceed to execute unneurotic successful the years to come."

His 7 titles are tied for the astir ever successful NASCAR history, on with Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt. His archetypal 5 were won consecutively from 2006 to 2010, followed by titles successful 2013 and 2016.

Jimmie Johnson (48) wins the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship aft winning the FORD EcoBoost 400 contention connected Nov. 20, 2016, astatine the Homestead-Miami Speedway successful Homestead, Florida. (Stephen A. Arce/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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Johnson walked distant from full-time driving aft the 2020 play and has racked up 83 Cup Series victories.

He competed successful the IndyCar Series for 2 seasons (2021-22), became a partial proprietor astatine LEGACY MOTOR CLUB, and drove successful a fig of bucket-list events specified arsenic the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Rolex 24 astatine Daytona and an Unlimited Hydroplane astatine Seafair.

He is making his 23rd commencement successful the Daytona 500 connected Sunday, having won successful 2006 and 2013.

"It’s the lone contention you get a title," Johnson said earlier this week. "I was fortunate to acquisition that. You permission present and thing you do, you got a title. I ne'er had a rubric successful my life. That speaks to the value of the race, the magnitude of the race, the past down it all.

Jimmie Johnson, operator of the #48 Lowe's Chevrolet, celebrates successful triumph lane aft winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Daytona 500 astatine Daytona International Speedway connected Feb. 24, 2013, successful Daytona Beach, Florida. (Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

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"You get a title, and you get reminded of it each clip you’re introduced."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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