By Holly Cain-IMSA Wire Service
Jimmie Johnson will share driving duties with Simon Pagenaud, Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Rockenfeller for this weekend s Rolex 24 at Daytona. Photo: IMSA Wire Service
NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson showed up at Daytona International Speedway on Friday morning for the Roar Before the Rolex 24 feeling more like he was in mid-season form than climbing behind the wheel for the annual season start-up session most racers use to brush off the dust.
That’s because since Johnson completed his final NASCAR full-time season in November, the stock car champ has spent the last months testing IndyCars around the country – from famed tracks in Laguna Seca, California, to Sebring, Florida – preparing for his inaugural season in the NTT IndyCar Series driving road course events for Chip Ganassi Racing.