{"id":87065,"date":"2025-07-23T22:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/87065\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T22:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:39:09","slug":"jimmie-johnson-discusses-nascar-coming-to-sd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/87065\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmie Johnson discusses NASCAR coming to SD."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdgj3lz9000e01ukx8ap0upc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">NASCAR officially announced on Wednesday that it would be coming to San Diego in 2026, bringing three days of races from June 19th through June 21st featuring stars of the NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series in a street race at Naval Base Coronado. This is being billed as one of the biggest sporting events to ever come to San Diego. On Wednesday morning, El Cajon&#8217;s Jimmie Johnson met with the media to discuss his excitement about NASCAR coming to his hometown as well as whether or not he&#8217;d be interested in racing. You can watch Johnson&#8217;s comments below!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Project: Race the Base.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re bringing a different kind of speed to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USNavy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@USNavy<\/a> Base Coronado in 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A3mRh2x8bN\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/A3mRh2x8bN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NASCAR (@NASCAR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCAR\/status\/1948035152677851289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jimmie Johnson spoke about what it means to him to bring a NASCAR street race to his hometown of San Diego: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0ds0ArrEJX\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0ds0ArrEJX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 97.3 The Fan (@973TheFanSD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/973TheFanSD\/status\/1948128962489790952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jimmie Johnson was asked about his potential interest in racing in the NASCAR street race here in San Diego: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WFoWvlqTCA\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WFoWvlqTCA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 97.3 The Fan (@973TheFanSD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/973TheFanSD\/status\/1948129788306362437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Could the NASCAR street race in San Diego be the final race of Jimmie Johnson&#8217;s storied career? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VKNMxgcrBX\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VKNMxgcrBX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 97.3 The Fan (@973TheFanSD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/973TheFanSD\/status\/1948130828535611717?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n      Download the Audacy app today!<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/go.audacy.com\/973thefansd\/download\n<\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: \u00a9 Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images\n        <\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR officially announced on Wednesday that it would be coming to San Diego in 2026, bringing three days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":87066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-87065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114904954638880825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}