2006: Set career best for time; His two event wins came against the last two POWERade Series champions (John Force and Gary Scelzi); Matched his career-best sixth place finish in the POWERade standings; Matched a career-best with two No. 1 qualifiers, his first since the 2001 season
2005: Set career bests for time and speed; Opened the season with win at Pomona 1; Finished a career-best sixth in points; Had the top speed at Chicago 2
2004: Established career-best performance numbers; Qualified a season best No. 2 at St. Louis; Qualified No. 7 in the quickest Funny Car field in NHRA history (Pomona 2)
2003: Third consecutive finish in the Funny Car top 10; established career-best time and speed; qualified fifth in the quickest Funny Car field in NHRA history (Indianapolis); one of four Funny Car drivers to qualify for all 23 events
2002: Made a career-high four final round appearances; Was runner-up to Funny Car champ John Force at three events; Posted best Funny Car points finish of his career
2001: Earned victory at Las Vegas 1, two days after Johnson and team owner Don Prudhomme celebrated their birthdays (both were born on April 6); Was runner-up at St. Louis
2000: Replaced Cristen Powell in the Al Hofmann-owned Pontiac Firebird and competed in the final 11 events of the season, qualifying No. 1 at Indianapolis; Joined Don Prudhomme Racing in December
1999: Joined Joe Gibbs' Funny Car team for the final 13 races; Won his first Funny Car race (Reading); Ran his career-best speed to become only the third driver in the category to exceed 320 mph; Became the 12th NHRA driver to win events in both nitro categories
1995: Enjoyed his best NHRA Top Fuel finish (8th) in his last full season driving his family-backed dragster; Runner-up at Brainerd
1994: Became the 15th member of the Slick 50 300-mph Club (302.01 mph) and one of only five drivers to hold spots in both the 300-mph club and the Cragar 4-second Club; Won at Memphis for his second Top Fuel win and held the speed record for three months at 306.64 mph
1993: Notched his first professional victory at Seattle and was runner-up two weeks later at Brainerd; Made his first top 10 appearance in the NHRA championship point standings
1990: Became the 14th member of the Cragar 4-second Club
