Jimmie Johnson wins his fourth straight Sprint Cup championship. But do you know who he is?

Or for that matter, what the Sprint Cup is?

One could be forgiven for being confused about exactly what Jimmie Johnson just won. The Sprint Cup, formerly known as the Nextel Cup, Winston Cup, and occasionally just "Hey, you" is basically just code for the major leagues of NASCAR (as opposed to its AAA divisions) -- which, especially during a phase in which I watched it on TV every Sunday and started talking about cam-shafts and winches, my friends used to rightly mock as

The whole "Chase for the Cup" thing complicates things further. But three cheers for Jimmie Johnson anyway. A lesser man would spell his nickname with a Y.