Joe Lee Johnson Was A True Racing Champion

Joe Lee Johnson would compete at NASCAR's highest level for several years, winning the inaugural World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1960, before becoming at track owner in Tennessee.

Joe Lee Johnson was a tall, quiet, unassuming man who seemed sure of himself.

While doing research on Atlanta’s Lakewood Speedway back in 1999, Sam Colvin, Kenny Bugg, Jimmy Mosteller and myself drove to Tennessee to visit with Joe Lee.

At the time, he owned an old fashioned quarter mile dirt speedway with wooden bleachers in Cleveland Tennessee, similar to what he raced on when he began his career in the early 1950s.

On June 6, 1954 at Lakewood, he won a race and nearly won many more there.  The place also nearly killed him.  He gave every top notch driver fits that raced against him, and he was victorious at many other southern tracks where he was a dominating force.
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He began racing in Chattanooga at Alton Park and Warner Park Speedways.  Born in Cowpens, South Carolina on Sept. 11, 1929, he moved to Tennessee and lived and maintained a garage close by these tracks.

We asked him which speedways he enjoyed the most.

“Well, I don’t remember exactly, but if I won them, than most likely that’s the ones I enjoyed the most,” he said.  “But I never kept up with my wins and we never really had cameras and such.  I went to win, not to worry about the publicity.  I just went to win.  A lot of them went to ride.”

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