Jimmie Johnson picks up right where he left off last year

There have been plenty of changes in NASCAR's premiere series since the 2007 Daytona 500 -- one of them the name of the series, now Sprint Cup, changed from Nextel Cup -- and another the arrival of the "Car of Tomorrow," complete with its big rear wing, its wider, lower nose, and its roomier cockpit.

Steven Cole Smith

January 8, 2008