Johnson won his third consecutive race; he has the last two such streaks.
At one point, he did not even finish six consecutive races.
Johnson has won 58 consecutive races at 400 meters over the last eight years.
Thus he began a winning streak of 15 consecutive races.
He also won 3 consecutive races for the first time in his career.
Johnson has won 18 consecutive 200-meter races since July 28, 1994.
He won ten consecutive races from 1938 to 1956, before choosing not to run again in 1958.
This would be the first of three consecutive races between the two.
Jimmie Johnson kept the lead to win his second consecutive race in 2010.
He would go on to start 788 consecutive races before his first retirement in 2005.