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🏳️ Junior Johnson

Racing driver. NASA.

Driver facts

Full name

Junior Johnson

Born

28 June 1931(b. 1931)

Current team

Series

NASA

Status

Retired

Career wins

Career podiums

Career starts

Career DNFs

Racer Rating

938

Source: Wikimedia Commons

Racer Rating

938

Rank 32340 of 40,700 indexed, +0 this season

FIA Categorisation

Not on file

Not yet indexed
Source: fia.com

Synthesized from 2 sources, updated 155h ago

Junior Johnson is a developing-level driver racing in NASA, a national multiclass endurance championship that fields amateurs, semi-professionals and graded professionals together across 15 classes. He raced in the Spec Miata class, driving a Mazda MX-5 in spec trim.[1]

Johnson's indexed record consists of two starts in the 2009 NASA season, finishing 69th in the championship standings. He beat Nathanial Sparks, a semi-professional driver and 2016 Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup champion with 51 Whelen starts on his record, in one outing.[2]

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia

Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Junior Johnson is a racing driver who last raced in NASA. Johnson has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 2 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 938 ranks Johnson 32340th of 40,700 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications

2009 form

Last 2 races, finish position (higher is better)

Recent results

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2009-06-21	Summit Point Motorsports Park Spec Miata	NASA	P15	−121
2009-06-20	Summit Point Motorsports Park Spec Miata	NASA	P6	+59

Career-best drives

Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition

Rating won	Race	Series	Finish
+59	Summit Point Motorsports Park 2009	NASA	P6

Season by season

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Podiums	DNFs	Poles	Points	Pos	Gain/Loss	Rating
2009	▸NASA		2	0	0	0	0	0	P69	−412	938

Recent coverage

Junior Johnson: Legendary NASCAR driver, team owner and 1960 Daytona 500 winner[1]

Daytona Beach News-Journal

28 Jun 2026

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Camaro raced by Steve and Dick Johnson re-emerges[2]

V8 Sleuth

24 Jun 2026

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Junior Johnson | Biography, NASCAR, & Facts[3]

Britannica

2 Dec 2025

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No recent coverage found.

Head-to-head

Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Johnson finished ahead vs behind

Rival	Rating	Raced	Ahead	Behind	Record
🏳️ Nathanial SparksHigher-rated, 1× champion	2,898	2	1	1	50%
🏳️ Dean CopelandHigher-rated	2,832	2	1	1	50%
🇺🇸 Mike OgrenFIA Silver	1,641	2	1	1	50%

Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates

On the leaderboard

Global rank, 40,700 drivers indexed

#	Driver	Series	Rating
32,329	🏳️ ARZOLA/ Grigsby	PCA Club Racing	938
32,331	🏳️ Ben French	SCCA Regionals	938
32,332	🏳️ D. Farmer	NASA	938
32,333	🏳️ Donnie Akers	NASA	938
32,334	🏳️ Gerald Owen	SCCA Majors	938
32,335	🇦🇺 Greg Johnson	Velocity Invitational	938
32,336	🏳️ Hasan Ahmed	SVRA	938
32,337	🏳️ Jeffrey Mayer	SVRA	938
32,338	🇺🇸 John Baldwin Jr	NASA	938
32,339	🏳️ Jordan Kelly	SCCA Regionals	938
32,340	🏳️ Junior Johnson	NASA	938
32,341	🏳️ Laurence S Hoffman	PCA Club Racing	938
32,342	🏳️ M Kemp	PCA Club Racing	938
32,343	🏳️ M. Paul	NASA	938
32,344	🏳️ Michael Terry II	SCCA Regionals	938
32,345	🏳️ Mike Gerstner	SCCA Regionals	938
32,346	🏳️ Ned Freeston	SCCA Regionals	938
32,347	🏳️ Paul Subject	SVRA	938
32,348	🏳️ Philip Mason	PCA Club Racing	938
32,349	🏳️ Pta - D. Stein	NASA	938
32,350	🏳️ Sarth Benoit	NASA	938

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