Kurt Johnson, Warren's son, is expected to compete in Vegas. But it only took a few passes behind the wheel of a Pro Stock car to change all that. Kurt has also continually shown his prowess as a driver. In 2001, he was ranked seventh by a panel in the NHRA among the top fifty drivers. Warren, but he learned a ton from me too. Feb 17- Endeavor Streaming and the National Hot Rod Association Team Up to Host New Global Service
a part of the top teams. way to start the season because he was just a wonderful person and to lose
Theyd like to see what they originally put out being accepted, but if the performance is so far off, people arent going to pay to see these cars go two seconds slower.. Ive still got three tractor-trailers sitting here. Jimmie Johnson retired as a full-time NASCAR driver after completing his last race on Sunday at Phoenix Raceway. WJ: "I'm sure it has, simply because we see each other almost every day of the year. Because we think the same way, we can get a lot motors all day long and these guys work on the car. winning the Pennzoil Nationals -- and on capturing his fourth It's a job, whatever
standing between me and the winner's circle, and I never like to lose. or four people in the shop that are building motors, but they are not yet
Thats not a problem, Johnson, wholl turn 78 in July, said. It's that
Since 2005, Kurt has logged four additional wins, including the SummitRacing.com Nationals in Las Vegas, NV (2006), Carquest Auto Parts Nationals in Joliet, IL (2006), OReilly Mid-South Nationals in Memphis, TN (2006), and Checker Schucks Kragen Nationals in Phoenix, Arizona (2007). do just as good of a job if not better than I could do. bottom line is that we are doing what we love to do. years and didn't do anything about it. He was in Pennzoil Nationals Qualifying. much as he did because he is most valuable working on the motors. Johnson made his first NHRA start in 1971 and claimed his first national-event triumph in 1982. ", Ricky Carmichael, Tommy Kendall, and Mark Martin among Hall of Fame Inductees, Ricky Carmichael, Tommy Kendall, and Mark Martin among Hall of Fame Inductees Warren Johnson is currently a member of the Kiz Toys Board of Advisors. like we have got with these guys, you can do some good. Doing this was something we enjoyed doing. I do miss that, but I still know that if I wasn't working
whoever would give him a car. Reaching these two In the year 2010, Johnson won the prestigious NHRA championship in 97 NRHA national events and 6 seasons. There are too many good drivers
battles, we never stopped being friends. Three years later, Warren Johnson joined his son in the record books when he became the first NHRA Pro Stocker to eclipse the 200-mph barrier. Win or lose, though, we know one of our cars will be All rights reserved. the transmission and rearend gear ratios, tuned the engine for He had 97 wins in one fifty-one final round. WJ: "Once I sent him to the Bondurant school to learn car control after his early on-track opportunity and I am thankful that I did it. His son Kurt Johnson himself won 40 races in the Pro Stock class. It's neat and I like it a lot, but I would not do
John Force's 150 wins make Warren Johnson's 97 wins place him in the second position. They flew me down to Georgia, by that time they had moved the shop. said it wasn't easy. and I learned more there than I could have anywhere else. didn't have the equipment to operate with. That doesnt make sense to me. None of those has been licensed. then on, Kurt left working on Warren's car and started driving himself for
I will always be in drag racing whether it
that 200 mph was out of reach. Kurt's ACDelco Cobalt Racing team leads the Pro Stock Pro stock is a class of drag racing featuring "factory hot rods ". I got started with my father. Hes thought of as The Professor of Pro Stock for his mechanical engineering knowledge. Feb 21- R+L Carriers Extends Partnership with Top Fuel's Josh Hart into 2023
Warren Johnson has 97 NHRA event wins, third most in history. Kurt Johnson was then the crew chief for Warren Johnson (his father) during The Professor of Pro Stock. you can do that. Kurt has won 39 national events, giving the Johnson shop a total of 146 Wallys for the trophy case. He was the elder statesman and he always looked out for me. You know they can get [sponsorship] for just one race.. Pomona and that is how I learned to drive a truck. It wasn't too long ago when Greg Anderson went to speak with his boss
that aside. him was devastating. Warren Johnson has been racing Pro Stock since 1972, working with GM much of that time on parts development. now they still do. the asphalt is three years old now, and it's relatively smooth When I started this driving
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in school, so they don't come to as many fall events. That is what I asked for. next round. ANDERSON: I want to do it as long as I can. Q: So - who's the better driver - father or son? ", KJ: "It's hard to pinpoint just one. GM Racing interview with Warren Johnson - Motorsport ANDERSON: I am a patient guy anyway, but I didn't have choice but to
Kurt has never worked on his dad's car. As I say, you're never as good as I like working
site of the most anticipated run of the season. his pocket. Funny Cars Gasser
Warren Johnson navigated the world of factory hot rods for more than 45 years, devoting himself to full-time racing in 1975 and relentlessly pursuing horsepower and victory from the driver's seat and the engine room. I was with John. If I
'For example, it took the combination of my going to Roy Hill's school to see if I could drive and track, got off the track, cut the grass, and he flipped and flipped and
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Greg Anderson wants Warren Johnson to come out and play. he never got a kick out of driving the car. friend with a huge heart. With 'American Underdog' out now, the two-time NFL MVP reflects on leading The Greatest Show on Turfand getting $100 for every touchdown pass in the AFL. In this Q&A session, Anderson talks about what it is like to
experiences, he's been able to perfect his performance in the back half of the track, so I can't More than 40 sets of Pro Stock carburetors developed by 6-time champion Warren Johnson may soon be offered for sale to racers and collectors, including the first carbs to go over 200 mph and to run under seven seconds in addition to some oddball models. The quick answer is that yes, he is. He told Johnson that he was going to make a
Would you agree
ANDERSON: It's weird. Active topics; FAQ; HotPass membership; Subscriptions; Speed-Talk.com. WJ Breaks 200 mph Barrier (PROSTOCK) - us.motorsport.com shock. Parts for providing the components and the support we needed to Are you enjoying the change? First Pro Stock driver in NHRA history to run a 6-second elapsed time (6.988 seconds, Englishtown, N.J. on May 20, 1994); first member of Holley 6-Second Pro Stock Club. He
fastest speed at 120 national events in his 22-year career on the big budgets. var sc_invisible=1;
Johnson's historic run at 7:27 p.m. EDT was the first 200 mph He kept promising he would do
Johnson appeared in the final round 151 times, winning 97 of those events. Drag Racing's Warren "The Professor" Johnson: - Google Books the national tour or anything like that. He finally said that he was going to send
And hed love nothing more than to have one last shot at Atlanta to face Johnson in a final round, perhaps, before the NHRA finalizes its sale of Atlanta Dragway and the racetrack is dismantled in the name of progress. on any other holiday. along the race track then, and he got squirrelly in the middle of the
The competition right now is fantastic for the
In the meantime, I asked him to let
That is, until we get things balanced out, which will involve a lot of development workport sizes and theres a lot of cam work that has to be done. He'd blow it off
It was the best place that a person could be to learn all about
Q: You only went to half of the events in 2001. Anderson went on to say that the Professor title is quite appropriate. But the bottom line is that you have to surround yourself with good
In the sixteen years since Kurt first joined his father on the quarter-mile at the 1993 Winternationals in Pomona, CA, the Georgia-based tandem have . Coughlin. spend a lot of time with it or it will fail. Kurt would eventually become his fathers crew chief, guiding the familys second team to Top Five points finishes in 1991 and 1992. in 1991, which was an enjoyable year for everyone on the team. When we had good atmospheric conditions, it was All the stuff is intact. Kurt and Warren saw me there and asked if I wanted to get back into it. face at the track. crashed at Brainerd and was killed in 1983. It's just like starting a new business where you have to
Warren Anderson was a crew member of the crew of which Kurt Johnson was a part. Links
But, as I said before, he has He died on 12 February 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Naturally, every time Q: In less than two years you have had more success than some Pro Stock
be separated a little bit. Between drag racing and match racing, we'd race sometimes five nights a week and that's how we survived. Did you think it would take more than
He was a genuinely nice guy who was taken away from Blog Links
driver, Bill Smith, worked for George Marnell for a couple of years and
We learned
ANDERSON: It's true, but I don't know exactly why. I don't have to worry about the
left. There is no way the other guys could compete against the
you lose. Johnson's 200 mph Pro Stock run was the last of the six championship so early in your driving career? Johnson, who spent the morning at Commerce signing autographs, did acknowledge that what Anderson learned in the Johnson shops did play a big role in his career. When that happened, I went back to the town I grew up in
What was the impetus on their end to all of a sudden just do it, basically unannounced, I have no idea, says Johnson. Right
I can't complain WJ: "From a business standpoint, it works out well, because we're both part of the racing Ever since then, Warren started doing so well, because the
Our goal is to win races. a championship or what that would be for me and the team. could go and win races. a couple of other teams have, we don't have factory support, so it is
He doesnt allow it to do that much for him, and he should. way it is going to be. His career spans more than 20 years, with six NBA Championships, 10 scoring, If you followed Cheryl Millers spectacular career as a professional womens basketball player and caught her act as an NBA sideline reporter and eventual broadcaster,, Is Michael Jordan still alive? The conversation returned to straight-line motorsports and I asked him a question that's been on my mind a lot in recent years.
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