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NASCAR <\/a>legend Jimmie Johnson has opened up on his decision to switch Cup Series racing for IndyCar<\/a>.
<\/b><\/p>\n \nAlthough still not retired, Johnson has had a remarkable racing career, winning seven Cup Series titles between 2006 and 2016, five of which came consecutively.
<\/p>\n \nWith 83 Cup Series race victories, Johnson also ranks highly on the all-time wins list in sixth<\/a>, but ahead of the 2021 season, he swapped stock car racing for an open-wheel cockpit.
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<\/p>\n Jimmie Johnson explains IndyCar switch<\/p>\n \nFor the next two seasons, Johnson would race in IndyCar with Chip Ganassi Racing, although he could not repeat his NASCAR success.
<\/p>\n \nJohnson went on to make 29 IndyCar appearances, his best result being a fifth place at Iowa Speedway in July 2022.
<\/p>\n \nOpening up on his IndyCar switch in a recent interview with fellow Cup Series champion Kevin Harvick on his Happy Hour show<\/a>, Johnson opened up on the 2021 swap.
<\/p>\n \n“Everything in my career has been driven by fear, and that just takes a toll on you. When I stepped away [from NASCAR], I didn’t want to be driven by that anymore,” Johnson explained.
<\/p>\n \n“I didn’t like kind of who I was becoming in the way my headspace was during the course of a season and living through those moments.
<\/p>\n \n“Kids really helped define that, and I’d realize and see ‘man, I just didn’t handle that right, or I wasn’t thinking right, or my head wasn’t right,’ whatever it was.”
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