CONCORD, N.C. -- This weekend, Jimmie Johnson climbs behind the wheel of the No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet SS for the final time in the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.
He'll be racing for his seventh career Cup championship, which would tie him with NASCAR Hall of Famers Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty for the most all-time.
That got us thinking about looking back at the world when Johnson claimed his first Cup championship in 2006.
Without further ado, below is a Johnson championship time capsule.
On Nov. 19, 2006:
- The No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 was "My Love" by Justin Timberlake featuring T.I.
- "Casino Royale" and "Happy Feet" battled for the title of No. 1 movie in the country.
- Taylor Swift had released her debut album less than a month earlier.
- "American Idol" was on its way to claiming the title of No. 1 television program of the year.
- Twitter had launched just four months earlier.
- The No. 1 album on the charts was the "Hannah Montana" soundtrack.
- Nintendo released its newest video game console -- the Wii -- in North America.
- George W. Bush was the president of the United States of America.
- Tony Romo's Dallas Cowboys handed the eventual Super Bowl-champion Indianapolis Colts, led by Peyton Manning, their first loss of the season.
- Roger Goodell had taken over as NFL commissioner just two months earlier.
- iTunes had recently seen its one billionth song downloaded -- "Speed of Sound" by Coldplay.
Plenty has changed since then, but would also be a record-breakingly short amount of time between Johnson's first and potential seventh title.
If Johnson were to claim the title on Sunday, it would come just 10 seasons after his first championship win -- the shortest period of time between the first and seventh title in NASCAR history.
There were 15 seasons between Petty's first and seventh championships, and 14 between Earnhardt's.
Johnson's chance at history comes Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The race is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. ET on NBC, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.