

Nicole also raced a partial season in 2010 at the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series in the Limited Buggy class. In 2008, she became the first female finisher of the race, was awarded "Fastest Queen" for her finish in 2010. From 2008 through 2010, she raced King of the Hammers. In 2007, Nicole turned pro and competed through 2010 in the Pro Modified class at the World Extreme Rock Crawling Competition Series (known as W.E. The couple placed first at the event, which sparked the creation of their rock crawling team together, known as Johnson Motorsports. By 2004, in her first competition, Nicole drove a friend's vehicle at the Pro Rock Women's National Championships, spotted by Frank. In 2001, Frank became a spotter for the Red Bull Rock Crawling team and Nicole cheered him from the sidelines. Avid four wheelers since the beginning of their marriage, Nicole served as Treasurer of the Southern Nevada Landcruiser Association, the Las Vegas-based chapter of the Toyota Landcruiser Association, in 1997 to 1998, alongside Frank who served as the organization's President. Off Road Career Īs a young couple, Nicole and Frank often spent weekends four wheeling in their 1972 Toyota Land Cruiser. The couple moved to Las Vegas after graduation in 1996, and have resided there ever since. The number 814, representing their anniversary, was later used as the couple's team number at rock crawling competitions. Īt age 19, she married Frank Ralph Johnson on August 14, 1993, in Los Angeles, CA. Nicole is a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Science degree in construction management in 1996. She was often around cars and learned mechanics from her dad, who had her driving a go-kart powered by a Briggs and Stratton lawn mower engine when she was five years old. Born Nicole Michelle Jardin on January 16, 1974, in Oxnard, California to parents Thomas and Georgia who divorced when she was young, Nicole spent weekends and summers in Hawaii with her father, who was a diesel mechanic by trade.
