When the smoke finally cleared from Jimmie Johnson's burnout this past weekend at Michigan International Speedway, it revealed not only a first victory in over two dozen attempts at one of the few tracks that have bedeviled the six-time champion of NASCAR's premier series. But even then, there was separation -- Yarborough got to No. 70 in the spring of 1981 at Atlanta, a year before Allison got there at Daytona in the summer of 1982, and well before Waltrip did the same at North Wilkesboro in 1986. More...