The King.

The Intimidator.

Jimmie Johnson?

On Sunday in the far reaches of southern Miami-Dade County, Johnson races for his seventh NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship, a feat accomplished only by racing legends Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt.

If Johnson were to win Sunday’s Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway — or just beat out rivals Joey Lugano, Carl Edwards and defending Cup champ Kyle Busch — his place in auto racing history will be cemented as one of the all-time greats.

Not that it already isn’t, mind you.

“He’s right at the top of the heap right now, just winning six,” Petty told the Charlotte (North Carolina) Observer. “Winning all the races he’s won, it would just be another mark beside his name. I guess it’ll move him into a different deal, because with Earnhardt and me, there were seven of them. He’s done six. It’d be a really big deal.”

Johnson, 41, has been one of the most dominant drivers in racing history, winning six Cup titles in his first 12 full-time seasons on the circuit, his No. 48 Lowe’s Chevy becoming a mainstay on victory lanes across the country.

Running for Rick Hendrick’s juggernaut, Johnson — a native of Southern California — has become a fan favorite in a sport with deep Southern roots.

Winning five consecutive Cup titles from 2006 to 2010 sure did not hurt his popularity.

Yet for Johnson to join Petty and Earnhardt atop NASCAR mountain, he will have to get things going on the circuit’s southernmost venue, one of the few tracks at which Johnson has yet to win.

While football coach Jimmy Johnson enjoyed much success in Miami, driver Jimmie Johnson has not.

Johnson has never won at the speedway Ralph Sanchez built out of Homestead farmland, his best finishes in 15 races being second in 2004 and 2010.

That is not to say Johnson hasn’t had his fun in South Florida, as all six of his championships have been crowned at Homestead.

With the different championship formats of the time, Johnson just didn’t need to push things too hard to win a title.

In Johnson’s previous championship runs, the end result was all but assured before the massive haulers made their way down the Turnpike extension and turned onto Speedway Boulevard.

In 2006, for instance, Johnson finished ninth at Homestead and still beat Matt Kenseth by 56 points in the standings to claim his first Cup championship.

In 2013, Johnson also finished ninth at Homestead and still beat Kenseth by 19 points for the season title — his sixth.

“Unfortunately, we’re racing during the Jimmie Johnson era,” Denny Hamlin said that night in 2013. “Being out there and racing with him, I can say that I think he’s the best that there ever was. He’s racing against competition that’s tougher than this sport’s ever seen.”

This time around, however, Johnson is going to have a race to the finish as he must beat out his three final rivals to be crowned champ at Homestead.

Sunday’s Ford 400 is all about the order of finish; the top finisher of the ‘Championship 4’ wins the title.