When Jimmie Johnson announced his comeback to NASCAR in the new role of a part-owner in the Petty GMS Motorsports team, he took the ‘star’ quotient of the sport to a whole new level again. Particularly when it comes to the guys in the suits, the bosses.
This was something that Kyle Petty also touched upon in a recent interview. “You’ve got Michael Jordan, Pitbull, and now Jimmie Johnson, I mean three huge names in this sport,” Petty said. He described how “cool” it is that the seven-timer is joining his father, Richard Petty.
“This is a passing on, it’s an extension of what the sport can be, where the sport is headed and it is great to see Jimmie Johnson come back in the sport as an owner, that’s what’s cool to me,” Petty added.