Following his test of a Formula 1 McLaren in the fall of 2018, Jimmie Johnson wasn’t reticent regarding his post-NASCAR career. No plans were in place but he said he wanted to try out IndyCars – on road courses specifically – and he wanted to return to sports prototypes, where he had impressed in occasional forays in the Grand-Am series.
In 2020, those sparks of desire were fanned into flames and it came to pass that the seven-time NASCAR champion ran all road and street course races in the 2021 IndyCar season driving a Carvana-backed Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda.
After more than two decades in stock cars, and with the number of IndyCar test days so heavily restricted in this era, it was hardly a surprise to see Johnson having to do much of his basic learning during official practice sessions. But as the season went on, he appeared more confident, and at Portland he drove like he’d been racing open-wheel cars all his life. No, he wasn’t a pacesetter, but he looked like he…
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