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78 2014 CHEVROLET RACING SPECIAL NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES

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Plenty of NASCAR drivers are consistent, plenty of NASCAR drivers are excellent, but there are none who are so consistently excellent as Jimmie Johnson. Only once has he finished outside the top five in the final Sprint Cup points, and only once has he scored fewer than three wins in a season.

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Since making his full-time Sprint Cup entry in ’02, Jimmie Johnson has been a model of consistency.

He’s always driven the No. 48 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports; he’s won races in every season; he’s the only driver to take part in every Chase since its 2004 debut...oh, and he’s won six championships.

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o the casual observer, the 2013

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season might have looked fairly typical.

After all, Jimmie Johnson won his sixth Sprint Cup championship in the last eight years, while Chevrolet won an 11th straight NASCAR Sprint Cup Manufacturers’ Championship and 37th overall. But the reality is that it was anything but business as usual. Just ask Alba Colon...

As the NASCAR Sprint Cup program manager for Chevrolet Racing, it was Colon’s job to work closely with NASCAR and the other automakers in the series to introduce the all-new-for-2013 Generation- 6

Sprint Cup car, specifically the Chevrolet SS.

Not only did the SS and the other Gen- 6 cars look new, there were a whole lot of technical differences. The Gen- 6 cars weigh in at 3,300lbs, 150lb lighter than the old cars, and the hoods are made of carbon fiber and supplied by the automakers, as