Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson hopes to make some personal history next Father’s Day weekend, when the world’s premier stock car racing series visits his hometown for the first time.

Johnson said earlier this week that he hopes to start in all three of the weekend’s races — the featured Cup race June 21 at Naval Base Coronado as well as the Xfinity and truck races leading up to the main event.

And that’s only part of his plans for his first race in San Diego County in 30 years.

The June 19-21, 2026, dates for the historic racing weekend on the 3.4-mile, 16-turn street/road course on Naval Base Coronado — which will be NASCAR’s first-ever race on a military base — will coincide with the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Jimmie Johnson Foundation. The event also commemora

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