JOHNSON OFFERS REWARD FOR STOLEN COMPUTER
Sat, 2008-07-12 16:28
Steve Johnson was excited about speaking to the students at a local Denver tech school the day
before qualifying at the NHRA Mopar Mile High Nationals in Denver, Co.
He had every base covered including a video camera to capture the
moment and his lap top to provide important facts concerning a future
in NHRA championship drag racing with a Pro Stock Motorcycle.
Johnson’s presentation was impressive to say the least as he showed the students how he won, the importance of living respectable lives and how one can make a good living at drag racing.
His presentation may have inspired one student to possibly get a head start on his career. One minute Johnson's laptop was with him and the next it was gone. Stored on the hard drive, important personal information including bank records and sponsor contracts. Steve Johnson was excited about speaking to the students at a local Denver tech school the day
before qualifying at the NHRA Mopar Mile High Nationals in Denver, Co.
He had every base covered including a video camera to capture the
moment and his lap top to provide important facts concerning a future
in NHRA championship drag racing with a Pro Stock Motorcycle.
Johnson’s presentation was impressive to say the least as he showed the students how he won, the importance of living respectable lives and how one can make a good living at drag racing.
His presentation may have inspired one student to possibly get a head start on his career. One minute Johnson's laptop was with him and the next it was gone. Stored on the hard drive, important personal information including bank records and sponsor contracts.
“Thousand dollar reward for anybody I mean if they can tell me it’s in the trash can in an Arby’s parking lot,” Johnson said during a press conference on Friday. “I’m having all this bad luck, right? I’m frustrated.”
Not letting the loss get him down, Johnson his Snap-on Tools Suzuki to the provisional top spot with a 7.367 elapsed time at 178.00 miles per hour.
“The crew did there jobs, they made the right decisions,” Johnson admitted. “They got ramps with the MSD, they got carburetor adjustments, timing adjustments, they’re pulling it out here, they’re adding it here. The gear ratio, we did some really neat stuff with the transmission and the gear ratios they changed that motorcycle 1000% from when it’s ever been and look what we did. Numero Uno.” And the funny part about this whole thing is I’m texting Dixon I’m like ’Wow, we’re number three did you get number one?’ He texts me back and says ’No, we got number two.’ I said ’Let’s both do better.’ He texts me back ‘it’s a deal’ then I text him back and go ‘What’s up baby!’ So I’m waiting for him to text me back.
Johnson is pleading with the person who stole his laptop to return the unit and he’ll ask no questions.
“It’s got our runs on it,” Johnson said. “[Crew chief] Mark [Peiser] is over there scrambling trying to get runs together recovering old notes and stuff like that. It’s not life or death, I’ve been heartbroken before and it feels just like that.”
Johnson said jokingly that he’ll know who took the laptop if a new Suzuki team shows up with a familiar sponsorship.
“I’ll be pissed off because guess what, they’re going to have a name on the side of their bike and it’s going to be my proposal and my marketing package that they smoked and they got a deal from it,” Johnson said with a sour smile.
Steve Johnson learned the key gaining a provisional top qualifying position -- get your laptop stolen. (Roger Richards)
Johnson’s presentation was impressive to say the least as he showed the students how he won, the importance of living respectable lives and how one can make a good living at drag racing.
His presentation may have inspired one student to possibly get a head start on his career. One minute Johnson's laptop was with him and the next it was gone. Stored on the hard drive, important personal information including bank records and sponsor contracts. Steve Johnson was excited about speaking to the students at a local Denver tech school the day
Steve Johnson learned the key gaining a provisional top qualifying position -- get your laptop stolen. (Roger Richards)
Johnson’s presentation was impressive to say the least as he showed the students how he won, the importance of living respectable lives and how one can make a good living at drag racing.
His presentation may have inspired one student to possibly get a head start on his career. One minute Johnson's laptop was with him and the next it was gone. Stored on the hard drive, important personal information including bank records and sponsor contracts.
“Thousand dollar reward for anybody I mean if they can tell me it’s in the trash can in an Arby’s parking lot,” Johnson said during a press conference on Friday. “I’m having all this bad luck, right? I’m frustrated.”
Not letting the loss get him down, Johnson his Snap-on Tools Suzuki to the provisional top spot with a 7.367 elapsed time at 178.00 miles per hour.
“The crew did there jobs, they made the right decisions,” Johnson admitted. “They got ramps with the MSD, they got carburetor adjustments, timing adjustments, they’re pulling it out here, they’re adding it here. The gear ratio, we did some really neat stuff with the transmission and the gear ratios they changed that motorcycle 1000% from when it’s ever been and look what we did. Numero Uno.” And the funny part about this whole thing is I’m texting Dixon I’m like ’Wow, we’re number three did you get number one?’ He texts me back and says ’No, we got number two.’ I said ’Let’s both do better.’ He texts me back ‘it’s a deal’ then I text him back and go ‘What’s up baby!’ So I’m waiting for him to text me back.
Johnson is pleading with the person who stole his laptop to return the unit and he’ll ask no questions.
“It’s got our runs on it,” Johnson said. “[Crew chief] Mark [Peiser] is over there scrambling trying to get runs together recovering old notes and stuff like that. It’s not life or death, I’ve been heartbroken before and it feels just like that.”
Johnson said jokingly that he’ll know who took the laptop if a new Suzuki team shows up with a familiar sponsorship.
“I’ll be pissed off because guess what, they’re going to have a name on the side of their bike and it’s going to be my proposal and my marketing package that they smoked and they got a deal from it,” Johnson said with a sour smile.
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