Allen Johnson
It’s been a while since I blogged last, but mostly I’ve just been working hard at the track. We had a little break around Memorial Day weekend. My wife Pam and I went down to Justin Humphries’ parent's place, who bought a new house near Sanibel Island in Florida. We went down and hung out with Humphries, and Dave Connolly and Jenny came along. I got in a few rounds of golf out there, which my game really needed!
After that, basically, I’ve been racing and working. We had three races in a row at Topeka, Joliet and Englishtown, so we’ve really been at it. Of course, Topeka was awesome. I got the monkey off my back and got my first win since 2007 at the Mopar Mile-Highs. I had a great celebration with my Mopar/J&J Racing team, but unfortunately my mom and Pam weren’t there, so it was a little tame. We were able to sleep in on Monday because we were only driving over to St. Louis to test, so we had an extra day of rest to recuperate from the partying!
Since then we should have had one more win. We’re still working on the bugaboos and I think it’s all going to come together right before the Countdown playoffs start after the U.S. Nationals. We’re heading to Norwalk next week, where I won the $50,000 K&N Horsepower Challenge last year, and then on to Mopar’s big race, the Mopar Mile-High Nationals, in early July. I’ve done well at the Mile-Highs in Denver in the past, so I’m really looking forward to heading out there again and seeing all the folks from Mopar who we’ve got to know over the years.