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Grant Johnson will pilot Cameron Crick\u2019s regular entry at Wanneroo Raceway. Image: Supplied \/ MTR Images<\/p>\n
Since leaving the V8 Utes category at the end of 2011, Johnson has remained successful in production car racing, winning seven consecutive WA state Saloon Car championships \u2013 in addition to two in 2006 and \u201907.<\/p>\n
Johnson also won three Australian Saloon Car titles in 2016, \u201919, and \u201922.<\/p>\n
The veteran noted his main challenge would be adapting to the nature of the current generation SuperUtes, a much heavier race car than what he is accustomed to.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s probably getting used to the weight of the V8 SuperUtes that will be the biggest relearning curve,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt over 1,900 kilograms, stopping, turning and accelerating can be tricky on the edge.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe tyre degradation can be an issue for many interstate drivers too at Wanneroo Raceway, so keeping the tyres in good condition is key to consistent laps.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnson finished fourth in the standings in his final V8 Utes season in 2011, while David Sieders was second.<\/p>\n
Sieders, alongside Adam Marjoram, remain the only drivers in the current SuperUtes field to have raced against the West Aussie in utes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s exciting to be back and compare myself to the new and old ute drivers. Expectations are always high, so hopefully we have some luck and meet them for the EFS Racing team,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n
Round 3 of the Tyrepower V8 SuperUte Series will be held at the Perth Super440 on July 31-August 2.<\/p>\n
The 2024 series winner Marjoram leads the standings by 22 points over Cody Brewczynski.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grant Johnson’s #1 Holden VE Commodore in 2011. Image: Supplied The Perth local will step into the #7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,386856,806,805,803,804,85,281364],"class_list":["post-811911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-grant-johnson","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-v8-superutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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