Junior Johnson is a former Nascar Cup Series driver, engineer and team owner whose team competed from 1953-1995. Before joining Nascar he was a bootlegger hauling moonshine, even serving almost a year in an Ohio prison in the 1950s. As a racecar driver Johnson found success, winning dozens of races before retiring in 1966.

From there Johnson would become one of the most successful team owners in Nascar history. Several legendary drivers spent time driving for his team such as Cale Yarborough, Bobby Allison, Darrell Waltrip, Niel Bonnett, Terry Labonte, Geoff Bodine, Sterling Marlin, Jimmy Spencer and Bill Elliott along with plenty of others.

In 1973 the movie The Last American Hero, a movie covering Junior Johnson's life story, came out. Johnson was voted as one of Nascar's 50 greatest drivers in 1998, then one of Nascar's 75 greatest drivers in 2023. As well as being inducted into the Nascar Hall of Fame in 2010.

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