{"id":22729,"date":"2019-11-05T17:30:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T22:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=22729"},"modified":"2019-11-05T17:30:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T22:30:56","slug":"most-disappointing-jimmie-johnsons-2019-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/11\/05\/most-disappointing-jimmie-johnsons-2019-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Most disappointing: Jimmie Johnson\u2019s 2019 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6274-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22728\" width=\"274\" height=\"182\"><\/p>\n<p>Jimmie Johnson has had a 2019 season to forget. Perhaps it is best to sum up Johnson&#8217;s season in one foul statement: Only Hendrick Motorsports driver to miss the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off his worst ever full-season points finish of 14th, Johnson enters the final two weeks of the season in 18th.<\/p>\n<p>No wins and just three top-five finishes have made Johnson an afterthought to everyone except his most loyal fans.<\/p>\n<p>The last won for car No. 48 came at Dover in 2017 and, with the early stages at Texas this past weekend being an exception, the seven-time champion hasn&#8217;t been a threat at all. Meanwhile teammates Chase Elliott and Alex Bowman have scored wins while William Byron has even bested Johnson in top-five and top-ten finishes while notching five poles to Johnson&#8217;s one.<\/p>\n<p>The driver will return for the 2020 season but his status past then is anyone&#8217;s guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmie Johnson has had a 2019 season to forget. Perhaps it is best to sum up Johnson&#8217;s season in one foul statement: Only Hendrick Motorsports driver to miss the playoffs. Coming off his worst ever full-season points finish of 14th, Johnson enters the final two weeks of the season in 18th. No wins and just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[255,315,708],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-nascar-topstory","9":"category-news","10":"tag-hendrick-motorsports","11":"tag-jimmie-johnson","12":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22729"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}