No doubt, the largest bombshell dropped close to the tip of the 2022 Cup season. Jimmie Johnson was returning to the NASCAR Cup Collection. Nonetheless, this was not a reunion with Hendrick Motorsports, however a tie-up with fellow 7-time Cup champion Richard Petty. The most effective half is that not solely is he a part-owner of the Petty GMS Motorsports crew, however he can even be racing.
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After all, one huge query will probably be in regards to the racing quantity that Johnson will use. Regardless of his historical past, the #48 is out of the query, as Alex Bowman is utilizing it. Moreover, the Hendrick Motorsports crew owns that quantity, and so they don’t have any plans to offer it up.
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With that out of the way in which, the large query is, which quantity will Johnson use? The Petty GMS Motorsports crew determined to tease the followers a bit, on this side. They dropped a small riddle, suggesting the quantity that he ought to use for the upcoming marketing campaign. The ploy labored, and it wasn’t lengthy earlier than it went viral.
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How did Jimmie Johnson react to the enjoyable?
Petty GMS Motorsport’s suggestion was that he ought to use the #74 quantity. Nonetheless, Johnson countered that along with his personal suggestion of #75. His justification was that he was born in 1975, so in his phrases, ‘that was my transfer’. After all, this sort of assertion might imply something, and that is simply his manner of messing with the followers. No matter he and the crew determine, it is going to be thrilling to see which quantity he’ll use.
The primary alternative will probably be on the Daytona 500. Over the season, there’ll absolutely be different probabilities for him to race in. No doubt, an announcement might quickly come the place the crew will affirm his racing quantity. One additionally has to wonder if his two seasons away from the NASCAR Cup Collection will have an effect on him. In any case, this may very well be his first time within the Subsequent Gen automotive, and the opposite drivers have grown used to it.
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