It’s difficult to find a form of racing that seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson doesn’t enjoy. That’s perhaps best exemplified by him racing in next month’s Mint 400, the famed 400-mile off-road race in the foothills of Las Vegas.

Want to see how Johnson fares? Well, he revealed during the FOX broadcast of Saturday’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race, the OnlyBulls Green Flag 150 at St. Petersburg, that the Mint 400 will be live-streaming on FOX’s «SPEED With Harvick And Burton» YouTube page. Moreover, there will be an in-car camera of Johnson during the race that can be seen on «SPEED on FOX» social channels.

What piques the NASCAR legend’s interest in this race?

«I’ve always wanted to go back. I thought maybe short-course racing would be that kind of reentry point,» Johnson said on the latest edition of «SPEED With Harvick and Burton» about racing in the Mint 400. «I grew up racing with the Herbst family, and they have second-, third-generation racers now in that series, and, obviously, Riley Herbst is in the Cup Series. But Troy Herbst has offered so many times: ‘Come play. Come back. You won’t believe what the trucks do.’

«The last Trophy Truck race I was in was in 1995, and so, I’ve had some curiosities around it, and I went and tested it in October, and it just blew my mind. I’m like, ‘I got to do this.’»

[Jimmie Johnson: «I’m One Of Those Idiots Who Keeps Going»]

Mint 400 пройдет с 6 по 7 марта. Затем, три месяца спустя, Джонсон примет участие в уличных гонках Truck Series за команду TRICON Garage на военно-морской базе Коронадо в Сан-Диего 19 июня.

Конечно, Джонсон, который два сезона выступал на трассе INDYCAR за команду Chip Ganassi Racing (2021–22), является руководителем экипажа легенды INDYCAR Дарио Франкитти, который участвует в субботней гонке Truck Series в Санкт-Петербурге, Флорида, и стартовал с шестого места. Тем временем 50-летний Джонсон также участвовал в гонке Daytona 500 2026 года.