On Friday morning, at Phoenix Raceway, Richard Petty, Maury Gallagher, and Jimmie Johnson confirmed their surprise deal.
about what can we do to improve our situation, make our business bigger, win some more races,” Petty said at the press conference. “He called me one day and said, ‘I’ve been talking to Jimmie Johnson,’ and I said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding. Jimmie Johnson wants to be involved with us, and we’ll be involved with him?’ This has got to be one of the biggest things that has happened to the Petty crowd and GMS.
Johnson raced 19 full seasons in NASCAR, all for Hendrick Motorsports. He won 36 poles, 83 races, seven championships and took home every individual honor in the sport. But his two-year, 29-start IndyCar career was a disaster: no poles or victories, and only one top-five and two top-10 finishes. Of his 29 starts, he finished 18 times in the 20s.Getty Images
“Ownership makes so much sense at this stage of my career , and after spending time with Maury and his family and talking with , I realized this was something I wanted to be involved with from both the business perspective and competition side.
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