| Steven Johnson | |
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Nationality |
Australian |
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Car number |
17 |
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Current team |
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Series Championships |
0 |
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Races |
177 |
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Round Wins |
2 |
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Podium finishes |
12 |
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Race Wins |
3 |
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Pole positions |
2 |
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2011 Championship position |
15 (1708 pts) |
Steven Johnson (born 6 September 1974) is an Australian V8 Supercar racing driver. He is the son former racer and now team-owner Dick Johnson. He has competed full-time for Dick Johnson Racing since 2000. Johnson is married and has two children.
Johnson's best season was in 2001, where he led the championship for two rounds and took two round wins, including the last ever Canberra round win, where he took victory from pole position in the first race, before finising the rest of the races in the top five. Near the season's end, he dropped to fifth, still his best ever effort. He finished the 2002 and 2003 seasons in 14th and 16th, respectively. He improved to tenth in the 2004 seaon. He was looking for a top five position in 2005, but had a poor Bathurst 1000 and resulted in him being placed outside of the top ten.
In 2007, Johnson recorded his best Bathurst 1000 result with a podium finishin third after leading late in the drama-charged closing laps as intermittent rain swept across the Mountain in an entertaing scrap with Craig Lowndes, James Courtney and Greg Murphy.