Just months after for the first time in his career and , seven-time Cup Series championJimmie Johnson announced on Wednesday that next year will be his last as a full-time Cup Series driver.

Even without another title in 2020, Johnson will retire tied with both Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr. for the —names his legacy fits right in with.

“I’m looking forward to next season, and celebrating what will be my last year as a full-time NASCAR Cup driver,” Johnson announced in a video posted to his Twitter account.

Johnson, 44,began his racing career in motorcycles and off-road trucks, and the latter involved a 1994 crash that led him, via , to change his philosophy from “young and dumb hot shoe to a thinking man’s racer.” That approach has been obvious throughout his seven titles.

Johnson decided to go on road in 1998, according to his website , and ran in the second-tier NASCAR Xfinity Series for a few years before signing with Hendrick Motorsports in September of 2000 and running three Cup Series races for the team in 2001. He’s been full time in the series , and has been with Hendrick Motorsports from the beginning.

The Era of Jimmie Johnson started not long after he went full time in NASCAR’s top series, with Johnson winning from 2006 through 2010. His next title came in 2013, and the most recent in 2016.

(It should be noted that these titles are different; , the Cup Series title was decided with a 10-race “Chase” for the championship. Points were reset for the top drivers in the standings, and those drivers then raced for the title in the final 10 races, highest points finisher wins., there’s been a renamed the “playoffs.” Johnson has under those rules, with the playoffs becoming the era of Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr.)

Johnson, thus, has easily been one of the most dominant drivers of the past two decades. His retirement is another one that feels like the end of an era, like with his former Hendrick teammates and .

But a retirement from full-time Cup Series competition has seemed like it would come sometime soon for some time now. Johnson’s performance has dropped as of late, with this year being the first time in his career that he’s . Before this year, he was the last driver left to have qualified for every single postseason since NASCAR began the practice in 2004.

He’s also at the typical age of Cup Series retirement—Earnhardt Jr. and Gordon both left around the same age—and he for the 2019 season.It was announced that the 17-year pairing of Johnson and crew chief Chad Knaus , with Knaus moving over to young Hendrick driver William Byron’s car. The two were a dynasty together, and that split on its own was the end of an era. Johnson is the last of the old Hendrick Motorsports driver stable left, with his new teammates aged , and .

But 2020 will be Johnson’s last season as the older driver in the group, at least full time. Johnson didn’t say in the announcement whether he’d race in limited capacities after 2020, , but said that he showed up in NASCAR “chasing a dream, and achieved more than [he] ever thought possible.”

If anything, that’s an understatement.