From a press release:

STEVE JOHNSON REJOINS TEAM MUZZY

Team Muzzy is proud to announce that Steve Johnson has rejoined Rob Muzzy Racing as Crew Chief for the Team Muzzy Drag Racing Team. He will be working with Rickey Gadson and Ryan Schnitz at the Prostar races and will also work on the Muzzy Pro Stock Motorcycle development team. Steve Johnson may be the most experienced crew chief in motorcycle racing, having worked on everything from 125 motocross to 500 G.P. and WSB. The list of championship riders and varied venues he has worked with is impressive to say the least. He started his career in the 60’s as a drag racing teenager, went to work at Kawasaki in 1969 and by 1971 had won his first World Championship with the legendary Phil Read in 250 G.P. From there he was into Motocross, working with the likes of Lackey, Weinert, Semics and Ward.

Back to road racing and Steve was Eddie Lawson’s mechanic in ’80,’81 and ’82, Wayne Rainey’s in ’83. After a stint as a manager at Kerker, in 1990 Steve joined the Vance & Hines team winning his first Daytona with Dave Sadowski as well as a 600 championship. Additional Daytona wins include those of Eddie Lawson (’93) with the Vance and Hines Team, and after Joining Rob Muzzy Racing, Scott Russell in ’94 and ’95. Steve was team manager for the Muzzy Kawasaki World Superbike Team from 1994 through 1996 and won the AMA Superbike championship with Doug Chandler in 1997. He continued to manage the Muzzy team until the Muzzy/Kawasaki Road Racing Team was disbanded in 1999. At that time he left for North Carolina and an administrative position with the Winston Cup and Busch racing team of PPI Motorsports, where he worked with drivers Scott Pruett and Rickey Craven. The vagaries of racing found Steve available, and after attending a couple of drag races as a guest, he decided to rejoin Rob Muzzy in the pursuit of still more championships to add to his total of 12.

Johnson says of his return to Team Muzzy “I’m very excited about getting back into drag racing. Like so many of us, drag racing was my first introduction to racing. It offers quite a challenge and I’m sure will call upon all my skills as a manager and tuner”.

Rob Muzzy Racing welcomes him.