DJR Team Penske
DJR Team Penske (formerly Dick Johnson Racing) is Australia's oldest motor racing team. Founded by Dick Johnson, the team's drivers have won seven Australian Touring Car Championship titles (five of them by Johnson himself) and the team has taken three victories in Australia's premier race, the Bathurst 1000. The Gold Coast based team campaigns two Ford FG X Falcons in the International V8 Supercars Championship, one bearing Dick Johnson's long standing racing number 17. Fabian Coulthard and Scott Pye are the team's current drivers.
The team has strongly identified itself with an image as a battler Queenslanders, frequently racing with state maps on the car. The team was initially based out of Johnson's family home in Daisy Hill in Brisbane's southern suburbs, before moving to facilities within sponsor Palmer Tube Mills' factory. In the late 1990s it relocated to a specialist workshop in Stayplton.
In September 2014 it was announced that American motor racing team Team Penske had taken a 51% shareholding interest in DJR, rebranding it as DJR Team Penske with former V8 Supercar champion and NASCAR regular Marcos Ambrose joining the team at the final event of the 2014 season ahead of a full 2015 program. It was the first time that Team Penske expanded its involvement to non-IndyCar/NASCAR activities since DHL Porsche Team Penske when Team Penske had involvement in endurance sports car racing.
Richard Johnson
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Dick Johnson (clarinetist)
Dick Johnson (December 1, 1925 – January 10, 2010) was an American big band clarinetist, best known for his work with the Artie Shaw Band. From 1983 until his death he was the leader of the Artie Shaw Orchestra.
Born Richard Brown Johnson in Brockton, Massachusetts, he also played the alto saxophone and flute. Johnson worked with Frank Sinatra, the Swing Shift Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie and Tony Bennett.
Johnson died in Boston, Massachusetts after a short illness, aged 84.
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Dick Johnson (footballer)
Richard Kemp "Dick" Johnson (1895 – 3 January 1933) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Liverpool, New Brighton and Stoke City.
Career
Johnson was born in Gateshead and played for Felling Colliery before joining Liverpool in 1919. He scored 13 goals in 27 games in 1920–21 and his 16 goals in 41 in 1922–23 helped the Anfield side to win the Football League First Division. He left for Stoke City in February 1925 and he scored four goals towards the end of the 1924–25 season to help Stoke avoid the drop however relegation was suffered the following season. He helped Stoke gain an instant return winning the Football League Third Division North in 1926–27 and then became a back up player until his departure to New Brighton in August 1929. He spent two seasons at New Brighton and the left for Welsh League side Connah's Quay before his death at the age of 38 in 1933.
