Johnson and Tracy to Form Golf Cart Stunt Team

Note: Most of this is made up, except the parts about Joie Chitwood.

NASCAR points champion Jimmie Johnson and Champ Car World Series veteran Paul Tracy will soon form a touring troupe that features stunt driving with golf carts, according to several sources.

The revelation came days after Johnson admitted he was ``horsing around'' on top of a moving golf cart when he fell off and broke his left wrist. Johnson's injury comes on the heels of Tracy's mysterious injury in Las Vegas on Nov. 4 which was initially reported as golf-cart related (later the story changed to ATV stunt driving). In early November, sources told pressdog that Tracy's accident was part of his preparations to jump the Snake River in a modified golf cart.

It now appears that Tracy and Johnson are preparing to launch a Joie Chitwood-style thrill show that would tour the lucrative county fair circuit throughout the United States and Canada. Chitwood, who died in 1988, drove in seven Indy 500s between 1940 and 1950, finishing as high as fifth. (Chitwood is shown at right in his 1950 Indy 500 entry.) Chitwood drove to fame as the operator of the Joie Chitwood Thrill Show, a stunt driving show that toured the U.S. for some 40 years.

Chitwood was the grandfather of Indianapolis Motor Speedway COO Joie Chitwood III (shown at left).

Witnesses to Johnson's accident injury said the 2006 NASCAR champion was sprawled out on top of the cart in a James Bond chase-scene-like fashion and was thrown several feet when the driver hit a berm. Rumors that the accident was caused by Johnson's cart driver bump drafting another cart could not be confirmed.

"I've learned that Johnson and Tracy are secretly preparing to form a golf cart thrill show," said one insider. "The person driving the cart was, in fact, Paul Tracy. He disguised himself as NASCAR fan by chewing tobacco, drinking Miller Lite and saying 'shake -- and bake, baby' a random times."

The insider said Johnson and Tracy feel there's an unmet demand for golf cart-based thrill driving, especially in the upper Midwestern U.S. and in various regions of Tracy's native Canada. The two are expected to go public with the PT Johnson Flying Golf Cart Circus in early 2007.

In other news, a rumor that EZ GO golf cart company is set to offer Johnson $5.4 million in sponsorship money for 2007 could not be confirmed.