Johanna Robbins
Johanna Robbins, formerly known as Johanna Long (born May 26, 1992), is an American professional stock car racing driver. She is the winner of the 2010 Snowball Derby.
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| Born | Johanna Long May 26, 1992 Pensacola, Florida | ||||||
| Achievements | 2010 Snowball Derby winner | ||||||
| NASCAR Xfinity Series career | |||||||
| 42 races run over 3 years | |||||||
| 2015 position | 72nd | ||||||
| Best finish | 20th (2012) | ||||||
| First race | 2012 DRIVE4COPD 300 (Daytona) | ||||||
| Last race | 2015 U.S. Cellular 250 (Iowa) | ||||||
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| NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series career | |||||||
| 24 races run over 2 years | |||||||
| Best finish | 21st (2011) | ||||||
| First race | 2010 AAA Insurance 200 (IRP) | ||||||
| Last race | 2011 WinStar World Casino 350K (Texas) | ||||||
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| Statistics current as of August 1, 2015. | |||||||
Racing career
Background
Long's father raced late models and she wanted to start racing karts when she was five years old; he allowed her to start racing when she was eight. She moved up into legends car racing, before turning to late models when she was twelve.[1] In 2008, she won the Gulf Coast championship including races at Pensacola and Mobile, Alabama as well as the late model track championship at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola.[1]
NASCAR career
Long began her transition into NASCAR in 2009 by racing in a variety of series, including ASA Late Model Series, Pro Late Model, and ARCA.[1] In 38 events, she had 27 top ten finishes, 17 top fives and five wins.[1] Long ended 2009 by winning the pole position in the Snowball Derby,[1] one of the few late model races in the off-season, which features drivers from around the United States.[2]
She was expected to race in three Camping World races in 2010[1] but ended up racing in seven events. She raced in the Billy Ballew Motorsports truck in the middle of the season[1] before the No. 15 team was shut down,[2] and finished the year by racing in four events for her family-owned team, Panhandle Motorsports.[3] With Ballew she qualified in all three races between 15th and 20th before finishing 17th, 34th and 20th.[3] With Panhandle she had a season-high ninth place qualifying effort at Texas Motor Speedway with her best finish being a 20th-place result at the final race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.[3] Long returned to Pensacola's Five Flags Speedway for the 2010 Snowball Derby, and won the 43rd annual running of the event by holding off Landon Cassill.[4] She became the second woman to win the race after Tammy Jo Kirk did it in 1994.[4]
She competed in the Camping World Truck Series in 2011, driving the family-owned No. 20 Toyota and running for Rookie-of-the-Year honors.[5] Sponsorship issues forced her to run a partial season; her best finish was eleventh at Texas Motor Speedway.[6]
For 2012, Long signed to drive the No. 70 Biomet/Foretravel Motorcoach Chevrolet, owned by ML Motorsports, in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, with former series champion David Green acting as a mentor.[7] She finished 21st in her Nationwide Series debut at Daytona International Speedway, becoming the youngest woman driver ever to compete in the series.[8] The team entered 21 races, finishing 20th in the standings.[6][9] In 2013, still running a limited schedule, she fell to 23rd in points, and the team let her contract expire at the end of the season, soon folding.[10]
Long spent the 2014 season racing Pro Late Models at Five Flags Speedway while searching for sponsorship.[11]
On January 28, 2015, it was announced that Long would drive the No. 03 Chevrolet Camaro for Mike Affarano in the Xfinity Series.[12] However, after several weeks of funding issues and her one and only attempt with the team resulted in a DNQ at Richmond, the team revealed on May 21 that Long has been released. On July 30, she joined Obaika Racing for the Xfinity race at Iowa Speedway.[13]
Personal life
In 2016, Long married Kyle Busch Motorsports engineer and fellow short track driver Hunter Robbins.[14]
Motorsports career results
NASCAR
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Xfinity Series
| NASCAR Xfinity Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | NXSC | Pts | ||||||
| 2012 | ML Motorsports | 70 | Chevy | DAY 21 |
PHO | LVS 19 |
BRI 29 |
CAL | TEX 20 |
RCH 20 |
TAL 37 |
DAR | IOW 22 |
CLT 22 |
DOV | MCH 16 |
ROA | KEN 19 |
DAY 12 |
NHA | CHI 21 |
IND 30 |
IOW 13 |
GLN | CGV | BRI 29 |
ATL | RCH 32 |
CHI 21 |
KEN 12 |
DOV | CLT | KAN 31 |
TEX 36 |
PHO | HOM 34 |
20th | 428 | ||||||
| 2013 | DAY 27 |
PHO 40 |
LVS 19 |
BRI | CAL | TEX 27 |
RCH 15 |
TAL 26 |
DAR | CLT 36 |
DOV | IOW 12 |
MCH 18 |
ROA | KEN 20 |
DAY | NHA | CHI 20 |
IND 27 |
IOW 19 |
GLN | LEX | BRI | ATL | RCH 19 |
CHI 26 |
KEN 16 |
DOV | KAN 24 |
CLT 17 |
TEX 37 |
PHO | HOM 21 |
23rd | 414 | |||||||||
| 2015 | Mike Affarano Motorsports | 03 | Chevy | DAY | ATL | LVS | PHO | CAL | TEX | BRI | RCH DNQ |
TAL | IOW | CLT | DOV | MCH | CHI | DAY | KEN | NHA | IND | 72nd | 17 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Obaika Racing | 97 | Chevy | IOW 27 |
GLN | MOH | BRI | ROA | DAR | RCH | CHI | KEN | DOV | CLT | KAN | TEX | PHO | HOM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Camping World Truck Series
| NASCAR Camping World Truck Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | NCWTC | Pts | ||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Billy Ballew Motorsports | 15 | Toyota | DAY | ATL | MAR | NSH | KAN | DOV | CLT | TEX | MCH | IOW | GTY | IRP 17 |
POC | NSH 34 |
DAR | BRI | CHI 20 |
KEN | NHA | 47th | 586 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Panhandle Motorsports | 20 | Toyota | LVS 36 |
MAR 22 |
TAL | TEX 36 |
PHO | HOM 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | DAY 32 |
PHO 20 |
DAR 31 |
MAR 18 |
NSH 32 |
DOV 22 |
CLT 20 |
KAN 24 |
TEX 11 |
KEN 36 |
IOW | NSH 26 |
IRP 17 |
POC | MCH | BRI 15 |
ATL 31 |
CHI | NHA | KEN | LVS | TAL 16 |
MAR 33 |
TEX 18 |
HOM | 21st | 347 | |||||||||||||||||
* Season still in progress
1 not eligible for series points
ARCA Re/Max Series
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
| ARCA Re/Max Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | ARSC | Pts | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Venturini Motorsports | 25 | Chevy | DAY | SLM | CAR | TAL | KEN | TOL | POC | MCH | MFD | IOW 23 |
KEN | BLN | POC | ISF | CHI | TOL | DSF | NJE | SLM | KAN | 65th | 450 | |||||||||||||||||||
| D'Hondt Motorsports | 19 | Toyota | CAR 29 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- White, Rea. "Teen driver Johanna Long climbing ranks". FOX Sports. Retrieved December 6, 2010.
- Pockrass, Bob. "Youngest of six women in trucks in 2010, Johanna Long and Caitlin Shaw hoping for more races in '11". Scene Daily. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
- "2010 Camping World Truck Series statistics". Racing Reference. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
- Secola, Jamie (December 6, 2010). "Johanna Long wins Snowball Derby". Pensacola News Journal. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
- "Johanna Long to run for truck rookie title in 2011". SceneDaily. Nascar Illustrated. January 24, 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-19.
- "Johanna Long lands Nationwide Series deal". Pensacola News Journal. Gannett. January 5, 2012. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- Heist, Bob (March 5, 2012). "It's Round II for Johanna Long". Pensacola News-Journal. Pensacola, Florida. Retrieved 2012-03-06.
- Maine, D'Arcy (March 3, 2012). "Johanna Long's quiet but historic Nationwide debut". ESPN. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
- Demmons, Doug (January 5, 2012). "Johanna Long graduates to NASCAR's Nationwide Series". The Birmingham News. al.com. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- Vilona, Bill (December 5, 2013). "Johanna Long faces uncertain future". Pensacola News Journal. Pensacola, FL. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
- James, Brant (August 28, 2014). "For Popular Driver Johanna Long, It's A Long Road Back To NASCAR". ESPN. Retrieved 2014-08-28.
- "Mike Affarano Motorsports Teams Up With Johanna Long". Johanna Long Blog. Salisbury, North Carolina)). January 28, 2015. Retrieved 2015-01-28.
- "Iowa XFINITY Series Entry List". Jayski's Silly Season Site. Archived from the original on July 28, 2015. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- Weaver, Matt (June 20, 2016). "NASCAR: Long faces career crossroad". Racer. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
External links
- Johanna Robbins driver statistics at Racing-Reference
| Sporting positions | ||
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| Preceded by Inaugural |
Sunoco Gulf Coast Championship Series Champion 2009 |
Succeeded by Chase Elliott |
| Achievements | ||
| Preceded by Kyle Busch |
Snowball Derby Winner 2010 |
Succeeded by Chase Elliott |