When he was thirteen years old,Johnson started kart racing. In 2003,he won a scholarship to race in the series Skip Barber Racing School and a scholarship in Valencia Spain to compete in the inaugural season of Formula BMW USA as a Factory BMW "Junior" driver.[1]
In 2004,Johnson competed in the Formula BMW USA Championship and finished fifth and received the Sportsman of the Year award.
In 2005,Johnson finished in the top-ten of his one and only Star Mazda Pro Series race.
Sports cars
In 2005,Johnson made his sports car debut with Speed Source co-driving with James Hinchcliffe in the Grand-Am Cup ST class,en route to seven top-ten finishes in seven races. He also made his GT car debut in the Virginia round of the Rolex Sports Car Series with Team Prototype Technology Group in a BMW M3. and had 7 top-10 finishes in the Grand-Am Cup ST class driving for SpeedSource,Matt Connolly Motorsports,and Compass 360.
In 2006,Johnson competed in one Speed World Challenge race for Tindol Motorsports as well as the Grand-Am Cup ST class for Kensai Racing,Potter Racing,and ROAR Racing.
2007 was Johnson first full season in sports cars,finishing second in the ST Championship with 3 victories under Kensai Racing. He also made his Koni Challenge GS class debut thanks to Jim Click Racing,finishing 6th as the highest placing Mustang.
In 2008,Johnson made the progression to a full season in the GS class under Motorsport Technology Group with four podium finishes driving a BMW Z4 M-Coupe and Porsche 997.
In 2009,after winning at Homestead in a Porsche 997 for Motorsport Technology Group,and the team running out of funds halfway through the season,Johnson signed with Roush Fenway Racing's Koni Challenge team,driving a Ford Mustang FR500C alongside Jack Roush Jr. A year later,the two won at Homestead-Miami Speedway,Jack Roush's 400th win as a car owner.[2] They finished third in the championship with a win at New Jersey and multiple podiums.
In late 2011,Johnson finished second in the championship with three victories,at VIR,Watkins Glen,and New Jersey. That year he also joined Turner Motorsport to drive a BMW M3 at the Rolex Sports Car Series,finishing fourth at Montreal.
In 2012,Johnson made his Rolex Daytona Prototype debut with Doran Racing Sunday morning after illness and injury left the team short on drivers mid-race and Johnson filling in having never driven a Prototype. Driving for Roush,he claimed wins at Daytona and Mid-Ohio,and a podium finish in a one-off ST race at Lime Rock and a top-5 driving a BMW M3 for RumBum Racing.
In 2013,Johnson made his American LeMans Series Debut driving for Aston Martin Racing in the 2013 12 Hours of Sebring,finishing ninth. He won at Daytona and Lime Rock in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge GS class and had a podium finish at Laguna Seca in the Turner Motorsports BMW M3 in the GT class.
In 2014,Johnson switched to Multimatic Motorsports in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge series driving the Boss 302R with Ian James winning the season finale at Road Atlanta. He also drove for Scuderia Corsa in the Ferrari 458 in the GTD class in the 24 Hours of Daytona with Ken Wilden,Dave Empringham,and Rod Randall.
In 2015,Johnson drove with Scott Maxwell in the Boss 302R and debut the Ford Shelby GT350R-C,finishing third in the Championship and winning at Lime Rock. He returned with Turner to drive a BMW Z4 at Petit Le Mans.
Johnson returned to RFR in the 2011 Nationwide Series,this time at Road America,where he topped the time charts in the first practice [7] before qualifying on second row and running in the top-five until falling out early due to an engine problem.[8]
Running only one race in 2012,Johnson scored his first NASCAR top-ten finish at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. After running in the top-five most of the day,multiple Green-White-Checker attempts turned it into a fuel mileage race,and he had to pit for fuel on the second attempt from second. On the third and final GWC restart,Johnson drove from twentieth to eighth in two laps.[9]
Coming off of that strong performance,Johnson led his first-ever laps at Road America in 2013. In that race,he started seventh and worked his way to the lead before a lap fourteen pit road speeding penalty. He retook the lead again by lap 39 before being collected in a wreck at lap 47 while running fourth.[10] He then made his first oval start at New Hampshire Motor Speedway,finishing both races in fifteenth place.[11]
Formerly known as Roush Racing and Roush Fenway Racing
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