About Johan Schwartz

  Johan was born and raised in Denmark. His passion for all things cars was evident when around 6 he created his own rating system in the Danish Auto Consumer Reports. As soon at his parents allowed, Johan took to the icy roads, frozen ponds and open fields to learn car control! On his own, Johan learned how to market himself, wrench and found himself at different Danish racing events. Today, Johan, his wife and 2 children live in Charlotte, NC.

  In a Saab '99 and Saab'96 (one with a Ford V6 3.2 liter engine) Johan raced in the Folkerace series, all sprint races, at rally cross courses. He also competed in the Danish Championship in a Formula Ford 1600, a PRS chassis. Then for one of Johan's top 10 racing experiences - Johan competed on Team Scandinavia, driving a Land Rover in the 1995 Camel Trophy in England. 

  Johan first came the US as an exchange student - staying with a family in Minnesota. Returning to Denmark for three years, Johan served in the Danish army and completed his first 2 years of college. Back to the US, Johan attended Flagger College (only 45 minutes to Daytona) and ever the entrepreneur, bought and sold a Danish timing system called UniPro to race teams. 

  Johan moved to Boston, MA, getting his MBA from U Mass, working for Fidelity and later Mullen Advertising. Deciding to trade the rat race for the racetrack, Johan started Endurance Karting, an arrive and drive karting program with schools, endurance races and corporate events, which traveled to kart tracks on the East coast. Endurance Karting crew and regular clients became an amazing racetrack family! This career shift effort allowed Johan to free up for more time on the big track. 

  With wife Karen onboard to help run and develop Endurance Karting, Johan was able to further his time on the big track. To further his precision driving Johan also became a Factory BMW Instructor at the Performance Center in SC. At this same time Johan competed in his first pro races in Grand Am, driving a Honda Si and Mazda Speed 3. The opportunity to sell the karting business and focus on his personal racing full time happened in 2013. More great things were to come that same year!

  Pro Racing was Johan's focus starting in 2014 with a couple of SRO races. A full season in 2015 under the TechSport tent was a stellar year of beating records and winning the TCB championship. In 2016 and 2017 Johan focused developing his coaching business. Back for a full season in 2018, racing for Rooster Hall Racing in Touring Car, Johan had impressive 3rd place championship finish in 2018 and won the 2019 championship. In 2020, Johan raced TC for Hard Motorsport and was leading the championship until at Road America, an unfortunate crash out caused by another driver ended Johan's championship chances. None the less, a strong 3rd place finish was still achieved! 

Johan was a top finisher two years in a row in the BMW M Trophy Cup finishing 2nd and 19th respectively for 2019-2020.  In 2021, Johan also competed in Pikes Peak International Hill Climb – an absolute career top 10 experience.

2022 and 2023 SRO seasons Johan was  the pro driver for Rooster Hall racing in their GT4 America BMW.   This 2024 SRO season Johan will drive for Ryspec in their GT4 Mercedes AMG.

· WRL 2022-2024 Running in both the GTO and GP1 .  2023 with Morehead Speedworks in the 147 Airbnb BMW was a championship season with a clean sweep of overall championship and all GP1 championships.  2024 the team is championing a Ginetta in GTO.

· Hoosier SCCA Super Tour: Driving a Porsche M44 in STU, Johan won the Southeastern Championship with 6 poles, 6 wins and 3 track records. 

  At the root of all of Johan's racing has been his strength to understand the technical aspects of racing to not just put down fast and consistent lap times, but racing two sometimes three different car platforms in the same race - being in the top times for those classes, but the ability to translate what he is doing to his clients so to further their driving development.

 

Johan is hired to both race with clients as well as coach clients. Johan likes to combine data and visual coaching for his clients and adapts to the responsiveness and strengths of the client. Clients can use their car or have rent one of Johan's BMW M240 iR's with second seat and full communication system.  

2024 Johan started Total Car Control:Skid Pad Clinics to provide a program to get drivers back to the basics regarding understeer and oversteer.  Offering participants the opportunity in their own car (rentals are available too) to push it to the limits and learn and practice how to push the car and how to save the car when necessary betters them as drivers on the track and in their everyday driving.

Contact Johan directly for details, availability and rates.

Johan is Bronze FIA rated pro driver with experience in GT3 and loves both sprint and endurance formats.  Look for Johan this season at the following series SRO, Creventic, WRL, AER, SCCA, Pikes Peak Hill Climb and more to be announced!