Amos Johnson

Amos Johnson (born April 9, 1941 in Sampson County ) is a retired American automobile racing driver .

Career in motorsport

For many years, Amos Johnson was Roger Mandeville's team partner in the various racing versions of the Mazda RX-7 in sports car races in North America, and in the 1980s he was one of the most famous racing drivers in the IMSA GTP series . Four times in a row he finished the IMSA GTU or GTO class as third overall of the year. 1983 , behind Roger Mandeville and Jim Downing , 1984 behind Mandeville and Gene Felton , 1985 behind Jack Baldwin and Chris Cord and 1986 behind Tommy Kendall and Mandeville. In 1987 , 1988 and 1989 he finished second overall, with Butch Leitzinger in a Nissan 240SX coming closest to overall victory in 1989, 26 points behind . His greatest success in international motorsport was the overall victory in the 1981 6-hour race in Daytona , a race in the sports car world championship that year .

Once, at the Talladega 500 in 1969, he was also at a race in the NASCAR - Sprint Cup , which he finished 13th in the final standings.

statistics

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1970	Simone Fleming	Fiat 124 Coupe	Paul Fleming	Bill Bowers	Disqualified
1973	Levi's team highball	AMC Gremlin	Whit Diggett		Rank 25
1979	Roger Mandeville	Mazda RX-7	Roger Mandeville	Jim Downing	Rank 13
1980	Caribbean AMC Jeep	AMC spirit	Dennis Shaw	Lou Statzer	failure	Engine failure
1981	Mandeville Racing Ent.	Mazda RX-7	Roger Mandeville		failure	Power transmission
1982	Mandeville Auto Tech	Mazda RX-7	Roger Mandeville	Jeff Kline	Rank 6 and class win
1983	Mandeville Auto Tech	Mazda RX-7	Roger Mandeville	Danny Smith	failure	Engine failure
1984	Mandeville Auto Tech	Mazda RX-7	Roger Mandeville	Danny Smith	Rank 17
1985	Team highball	Mazda RX-7	Dennis Shaw	Jack Dunham	failure	Gearbox damage
1986	Team highball	Mazda RX-7	Dennis Shaw	Jack Dunham	failure	malfunction
1987	Team highball	Mazda RX-7	Dennis Shaw		Rank 28
1988	Team highball	Mazda RX-7	Dennis Shaw		14th place and class win
1989	Team highball	Mazda RX-7	Dennis Shaw	Paul Lewis	Rank 17
1990	Downing Atlanta	Mazda RX-7	John O'Steen	Jim Downing	failure	differential
1995	Douglas Campbell	Mazda RX-7	Ralph Thomas	Douglas Campbell	Rank 45

literature

• Ken Breslauer: Sebring. The official History of America's Great Sports Car Race. David Bull, Cambridge MA 1995, ISBN 0-9649722-0-4 .
• Peter Higham: The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. A complete Reference from Formula 1 to Touring Car. Guinness Publishing Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-85112-642-1 .

Web links

• Amos Johnson at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ^ IMSA GTU class 1983
2. ↑ IMSA GTO class 1984
3. ^ IMSA GTU class 1985
4. ^ IMSA GTU class 1986
5. ↑ IMSA GTU class 1989
6. ↑ Talladega 500 1969 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.