Like most things 2020, driver Jimmie Johnson’s farewell tour was put on hold — never to resume — as a global pandemic seized center stage.
The 44-year-old NASCAR icon hunkered down with his wife and two girls, took family bike rides and even tried his hand at iRacing — where he was thrashed by the youngsters who had come up the ranks idolizing him.
Johnson and his wife, Chandra, monitored every sneeze, sniffle and sudden chill like most of America gripped by fear of the novel coronavirus. Then one day, the couple learned it had contracted COVID-19, despite showing no symptoms.