Can Jimmie turn it around?

Jimmie Johnson won both Cup races at Atlanta Motor Speedway last year. He has three wins and eight top-fives in 13 career Cup starts at Atlanta, site of Sunday's race.
But he's 0-for-3 this year in Cup races and coming off a 29th-place finish at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
He doesn't need to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Atlanta, but he does need a decent showing.
“It was definitely a disappointment, but no one is down about it," said Johnson, driver of the No. 48 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports. "It just makes us that much more determined. We have a lot of talented mechanics and engineers back at the shop that won’t stop until they figure out what was going on with the car. Sometimes you can learn a lot more from overcoming setbacks than you do from your successes. We’ll get it figured out. One thing this team doesn’t do is give up.”
Johnson's team is making an unusual choice for the Atlanta race. The car his team is taking to the track has yet to race, but the team's back-up car finished second in the Fontana race a couple weeks ago.
“This is a big weekend for Lowe’s and Kobalt Tools, and for our team," said Johnson, driver of the No. 48 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports. "We’re looking to bounce back from last weekend, we’ve got a chance to make it three in a row at Atlanta and we’re running a Kobalt paint scheme, so we’ve got a lot of motivation to do well.”