Jimmie Johnson did hit the infamous Daytona 500 pothole, causing a flat tire, but that wasn’t the root of the problem that relegated him to a 35th-place finish.
Jimmie Johnson Says Part Failure – Not Pothole – Ruined His Daytona 500
↵“Something with the left rear hub assembly failed, and then it got so hot it started melting things inside of there and then actually broke the axle,” Johnson said. “I don’t think the pothole had anything to do with that.”
↵So wait a minute. Does that mean Johnson’s No. 48 car actually suffered a rare part failure? That typically doesn’t happen to him.
↵“It was kind of a fluke - a fluke and a concern,” he said. “We haven’t had any issues with our hub assemblies in a long, long time. Same people, same stuff, same assemblers and all that; so we’re concerned.
↵“We haven’t had a rash of these problems, so we’re kind of like, ‘All right, maybe it’s just a fluke deal.’ At the same time, we want to figure out why.”
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