Nascar Race Today

Nascar's annual season-ending Champions Week concluded in Las Vegas Friday night with a celebration of Jimmie Johnson's sixth Sprint Cup title. Speculation has already begun as to whether he can make it seven championships next year, which would put him among the sport's immortals.

Only Richard Petty and the late Dale Earnhardt have won seven titles.

But Matt Kenseth, who finished runner-up to Johnson in the close 2013 points chase, humorously said he was ready for a changing of the guard.

"Winning that much has to be tiring," Kenseth said. "Go buy yourself an island somewhere, hang out with your family, find a new hobby, spend some of that money and enjoy yourself."

Johnson thanked Hendrick for creating "the winningest racing organization in Nascar history, by caring for the people you employ and treating us all like family."

In other racing news from this week:

■ Jean Todt was re-elected Friday to a second four-year term as president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, the sanctioning body that oversees the conduct of major international motorsports series such as Formula One. Todt, a former executive at Peugeot and the Ferrari Formula One team, was unopposed after his lone challenger, David Ward, withdrew his candidacy.

■ Tony Stewart, out of racing since breaking his leg in a sprint car crash last August, warned his fellow Nascar Sprint Cup competitors that he plans to return in February, in time for the Daytona 500.

Stewart, who had been getting around with the help of a motorized cart, a cane and a heavy cast on his surgically reconstructed leg, emphasized his point by walking to the podium to accept the Myers Brothers Award from the National Motorsports Press Association in Las Vegas on Thursday. He said his leg would be healed well enough by Daytona.

■ Mazda collected two class wins - in the E2 and E3 classes - at the 25 Hours of Thunderhill endurance race in Northern California over the weekend, fielding race-prepped Mazda 6 Skyactiv-D diesel cars. Another diesel-powered Mazda 6 claimed a podium finish in the E1 class. Mazda also pitted its dealers against factory personnel, with the dealers beating the factory crew.

■ Philippe Favre, 51, a Swiss racing driver, was killed in a skiing accident in France on Saturday. A veteran of Le Mans and F.I.A. racing, he had competed alongside Christophe Ricard in the Le Mans Endurance Racing series from 2003-5. He also owned a company that taught endurance drivers.