Jimmie Johnson finally fulfilled his childhood dream of driving an Indy car with a test session Tuesday. When the seven-time NASCAR champion finished turning laps, he was sold on figuring out how to race next year in the IndyCar Series.“It only lit the fire more.
I want to do this more than ever before,” Johnson said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “It was something new, something different.
NASCAR has been so good to me and I am so proud of the success I've had. But to try something new, man, this was really cool.”Johnson initially thought his racing career would take him into IndyCar, the series he followed as a child, but the path instead veered into NASCAR.