Doug Johnson

Doug began his amatuer racing efforts in 2004, attending the Jim Russell School at Infineon Raceway. Doug went through Jim Russell's beginning and advanced racing programs, and did his first race in Sept 2004 as part of the Russell Racing Championship series. Besides learning the fundimentals of racing, two important things came from the Jim Russell program - getting to know Ric McCormick, who was a coach on staff, and meeting and becoming good friends with Tony D'Allesandro, who was a class-mate.

The other team member of 101 Motorsports, Dan DiTrapani, a good friend of Doug's, was responsible for sparking Doug's racing interest. Dan's enthusiasm on being on track in a race car (courtesy of a day with Skip Barber as a gift from his wife) was contagious and got Doug to sign up for race school.

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