

I’ve always loved Silver Crown cars and have always kept up with them.

“They called them supermodifieds and I raced without a wing my first year. “When I first started racing back in Oklahoma City, our cars were a 100-inch wheelbase,” Johnson recalled. However, in the early days of his racing career, Johnson got his start in the similarly dimensioned 100-inch open wheel machines with NCRA at his hometown Oklahoma City Fairgrounds as well down the road at nearby Tulsa Speedway. To this point, he’s yet to tackle the champ cars of the USAC Silver Crown series.

The ASCS’s all-time feature starts leader also scored a pair of Knoxville 360 Nationals crowns, and in 2008, collected a Knoxville Nationals prelim night triumph. He captured the 2000 ASCS National Tour title and has accumulated 59 career tour wins to date, including five more in 2022 en route to a runner-up finish in the standings. Johnson’s accolades in winged sprint car racing are extensive. racer will compete for Silver Crown Rookie of the Year honors this season aboard Todd and Kelly Carlile’s TwoC Motorsports ride, utilizing an ex-Austin Nemire Beast chassis on the pavement and a brand-new Maxim machine for the dirt. After more than three decades behind the wheel of a winged sprint car, Wayne Johnson has his eyes affixed on a new course in his highly-accomplished racing career starting in 2023 – USAC Silver Crown racing.
