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Type of drag racing vehicle

Funny Motorcar is a type of elevate racing vehicle and a specific racing class in organized elevate racing. Funny cars are characterized by having tilt-up fiberglass or carbon cobweb automotive bodies over a custom-made chassis, giving them an appearance vaguely approximating manufacturers' showroom models. They also have the engine placed in front end of the commuter, every bit opposed to dragsters, which place information technology behind the driver.[i]

Funny car bodies typically reflect the models of newly available cars in the fourth dimension period that the funny car was built. For example, in the 1970s, so current models such every bit the Chevrolet Vega or Plymouth Barracuda were often represented as funny cars, and the bodies represented the Big Three of General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler.[2] Currently, 4 manufacturers are represented in National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Funny Automobile — Chevrolet with the Camaro,[three] Dodge with the Charger,[four] Ford with the Mustang,[5] and Toyota with the Supra.[6] Worldwide, however, many different body styles are used. These "fake" body shells are non just corrective; they serve an of import aerodynamic purpose.[7]

Today, fielding a Funny Car team can price between US$ii.6 and United states of america$3 million.[8] A unmarried carbon fiber torso can toll The states$lxx,000.[9]

Nitro Funny Car racing in 2020 has go a 1-team, one-manufacturer monopoly. Don Schumacher'southward Stellantis manufacturing plant team won all 11 rounds of the 2020 Camping ground Globe Drag Racing Series, with the Dodge Charger torso.

Guidelines [edit]

The NHRA has strict guidelines for Funny Cars. Most of the rules relate to the engine. In short, the engines tin can only be V8s displacing no more than 500 cu in (8,193.53 cc). The most popular design is a Donovan, loosely based on the second generation Chrysler 426 Hemi.

There can only be two valves per cylinder. The heads are machined from aluminum billet and have no water jackets, every bit the high latent rut of the methanol in the fuel coupled with the brevity of the run precludes the need. Superchargers are restricted to a basic Roots type—19-inch (480 mm) rotor instance width with a breadth of 11.25 in (286 mm). Simply single camshafts are allowed. In that location are two common diameter-stroke combinations: 4.1875 in × iv.50 in (106.36 mm × 114.30 mm) (chosen a 3/4 stroker) and four.25 by 4.375 inches (108.0 mm × 111.1 mm) (called a 5/8 stroker). The 3/4 stroker is the almost common combination used today and equals 496 CID (8.1 L).[ citation needed ]

Crankshafts are CNC machine carved from steel billet then nitrided in an oven to increase surface hardness. Intake valves are titanium and of 2.40 in (61 mm) diameter, while frazzle valves are 1.90 in (48 mm) bore, made from Inconel. Every Funny Car has ballistic blankets covering the supercharger because this role of the engine is prone to explosion.

Funny Car fuel systems are cardinal to their immense power. During a single run (starting, burnout, backing upwardly, staging, 1/4 mile) cars can burn equally much as fifteen US gallons (12 imp gal; 57 L) of fuel. The fuel mixture is usually 85–xc% nitromethane (nitro, "fuel") and 10–15% methanol (alcohol, "alky"). The ratio of fuel to air tin can be every bit high equally ane:1. Compression ratios vary from 6:1 to 7:1. The engines in Funny Cars unremarkably exhibit varying piston heights and ratios that are adamant by the piston's proximity to the air intake. Funny Cars have a fixed gear ratio of three.twenty:ane and have a reversing gear; power is transmitted from engine to final bulldoze through a multiple staged clutch which provides progressive incremental lockup as the run proceeds. The rate/caste of lockup is mechanically/pneumatically controlled and preset before each run according to various weather, in particular runway surface. Wheelbases are between 100 and 125 in (ii,500 and 3,200 mm). The car must maintain a 3 in (76 mm) footing clearance.

Horsepower claims vary widely—from half-dozen,978 to 8,897—just are probably around 8,000 HP. Supercharged, nitromethane-fueled motors of this type also have a very high torque, which is estimated at seven,000 ft⋅lbf (9,500 N⋅m). They routinely achieve a 6G dispatch from a continuing start.

Safety [edit]

Many safety rules are in place to protect the driver and fans. The more visible condom devices are the twin parachutes to help stabilize and decelerate the car afterward crossing the end line. Less visible precautions include scroll cages and fire extinguishers.

During prophylactic evaluations in the wake of the fatal crash of Scott Kalitta on June 21, 2008, in Englishtown, North.J., the NHRA reduced the distance of Top Fuel and Funny Car races to one,000 feet constructive July two, 2008. Pro Stock and sportsman classes still race to 1,320 feet.

History [edit]

In drag racing in the mid-1960s, Summit Fuel horsepower began to be combined with bodied cars with contradistinct wheelbases to produce the starting time "funny cars" (originally a derisive term).[ commendation needed ]

The showtime funny cars were built in the early to mid-1960s. Funny Auto as a form traces its roots to Super Stock, through "the intriguingly named Optional Super Stock grade", to A/Manufacturing plant Experimental (A/FX), which NHRA introduced in 1962, and ultimately XS (experimental stock).[10]

At the start, the rear tires ("slicks") were made with a bias-ply structure ("wrinklewall" slicks had non been invented yet), which meant that grip upon launching was poor. Racers who performed these altered wheelbase modifications establish information technology shifted the center of gravity rearward, which placed more weight on the rear wheels, enhancing traction from these bias-ply slicks. Because of these many obvious modifications they did not look stock, hence the name "funny".[eleven] The wheelbases were changed to aid traction for the narrow (7 in (180 mm)-wide) slicks (required by NHRA rules), while keeping the mandatory factory distance betwixt axle centers.[12]

The first of the "funny-looking cars" were a trio of 1964 Dodge 330 Max Wedges which were named the "Dodge Chargers". They debuted in March 1964 at San Diego Raceway.[13] Funny Cars started as stockers, and were, at outset, pure exhibition cars, in the Super/Factory Experimental (Due south/FX) class; NHRA treated them like a passing fad,[xiv] and tried to "legislate them out of existence" past placing them in first gas then fuel dragster classes, with cars of half the weight and twice the horsepower.[14]

Funny car success followed the popularity of gassers, the previous favorite doorslammer class.[15] The precursor of the funny automobile, appearing nearly a decade before, was John Bandimere'southward blown '55 Chevy.[xv] Funny cars were also preceded by the Modified Sport cars, which had fiberglass bodies, tube frames, and supercharged gear up-back engines even before Super Stock was conceived.[sixteen]

Amidst the Modified Sport racers to challenge early funny cars were Roger Hardcastle and Les Beattie with the Stinger, sporting a blown, fuel injected Chrysler hemi in an Astra J-v.[xvi] In 1964 its 1/four mile data was 143.85 mph and 10.02 ET. See Hot Rod Magazine from April 1964. Pages 58–60.

The beginning funny cars were Super Stock 1964 Contrivance 330 Max Wedges, named the "Contrivance Chargers", prepared, at the bidding of Don Beebe, by Dragmaster's Jim Nelson and Dode Martin.[xiii] Raced in the Supercharged Experimental Stock (S/XS) class, their original 426 Max Wedges were replaced by stroked 480 cu in (eight 50) Pinnacle Gas engines (virtual clones of the Superlative Gas Dodge Dart engines also built by Dragmaster).[17] (Thus, they were technically "funny gassers", not fuel cars, unlike the afterwards examples.[10]) Despite their fuel limitations, however, they were turning in East.T.s in the high 10s, with speeds around 130 mph (210 km/h), when Super Stock and FX cars were just running 11s at about 120 mph (190 km/h), conspicuously a winning edge.[10] They would also be the beginning factory cars fitted with parachutes, and the get-go to see the drivers wear firesuits.[10]

The first major altered-wheelbase car was Dick Landy's class-legal SS/A 1964 Contrivance Coronet,[ dubious ] which had front and rear axles moved radically forwards, a high gasser-way front end and axle, and a 426 hemi. Information technology moved the rear wheels forward xv in (380 mm), the front 10 in (250 mm), and lxxx lb (36 kg) worth of fiberglass parts (including hood, instrument panel, doors, front fenders, front deck lid, front bumpers) replaced steel.[12] Showtime actualization at the AHRA Winternationals at Phoenix, Arizona, 29–31 January 1964, the combination improved Due east.T.due south from low 11s with speeds in the 120 mph (190 km/h) range to 10.60s at almost 130 mph (210 km/h).[xviii] Only twelve were built.[xix]

The three Chargers, wearing a color scheme of crimson trunk sides and white roof, hood, and trunk, with two blue longitudinal stripes,[xv] were driven past Jimmy Nix, who previously ran a Pinnacle Gas dragster; Jim Johnson, who ran a Contrivance Polara stocker, and who had won the B/SA title in 1963; Jim Nelson; and Dode Martin.[20] (Zilch tried to persuade Chrisman to get Mercury Racing Director Fran Hernandez to allow him to run his Comet's 427 on nitro, equally a manner to proceeds leverage on NHRA, and so Nix could use nitro himself).[10]

Their debut was at San Diego Raceway in March 1964, for a three-race exhibition. While in theory all were identical, Nada would change slicks or add lead shot in the torso of his Contrivance 330 to improve traction.[10]

For their function, the Contrivance factory spent just United states of america$250,000 on the inaugural season, insufficient for a unmarried car, let alone 3,[xiii] an amount bundled past promoter Don Beebe, who persuaded Wally Parks safety would not be compromised, promising the cars would exist built to Super Stock standard.[ten]

Three months after the Chargers' debut, the factory-backed Sachs and Sons 1964 Mercury Comet, powered by a supercharged SOHC 427 "cammer", made its debut, at the 1964 Nationals in Indianapolis.[21] Driven by Jack Chrisman, and entered in B/FD, the Comet created a sensation.[10]

When Chrisman's Comet first ran in Indy, the Charger plan had been waylaid by financial issues and parts shortages. Their terminal race appearance was at a Greer, S Carolina, dragstrip, in July 1964. Nix, disappointed, went back to TG/D.[10] Chrisman's Comet was placed in the B/Fuel Dragster course at Indianapolis; he was defeated in eliminations, but not before recording a pass of 10.25 seconds at 156.31 mph (251.56 km/h) mph.[10]

The success of these cars inspired other racers to surrender class racing for supercharged exhibition cars, led by "Arnie Farmer" Beswick and his Pontiac GTO, Gary Dyer'southward hemi Dodge A/FX (financed by Norm Krause, "Mister Norm"[16]), and

Funny cars proved enormously popular, with cars driven by Chrisman and Beswick setting track records all over the U.Due south.[xiv] The commencement wave of funny automobile development ended around 1965, when bracket racer Jim Liberman and coiffure principal Lew Arrington fabricated a deal with Pontiac to supply rare hemis (remnants of Mickey Thompson's gas dragster program). (The duo later switched to Chrysler powerplants.)[22] Ii of the Dodge trio would render in 1965 equally the Guzler Chargers team, powered past supercharged, nitro-fuelled hemis, with direct drive; both crashed the same year.[x] The popularity of funny automobile grew that year, with January'southward AHRA Winternationals seeing vii entrants: the Ramchargers, "Not bad Dick" Landy, and Bud Faubel, in Dodges; and Butch Leal, Sox & Martin, the Gold Commandos, and Lee Smith in Plymouths.[10] By June, the number was over a dozen, including factory Mustangs and Cyclones with 427 "cammers".[10]

A dedicated funny car class was tried past NHRA at one 1966 national event, and at two in 1968, before Funny Motorcar Eliminator was created in 1969.[fourteen] The trend to flip-top fiberglass bodies ("floppers") began with Jim Lytle's The states$2000 Allison V-1710-powered chopped '34 Tudor Big Al 2.[23] It would inspire "every flopper body ever formed".[xviii] Chrysler's potency led Hernandez and Al Turner to try and turn things in Mercury'south favor; Don Nichsolson's flip-height, tube-chassis Comet, arriving in 1966, changed everything.[10] The "flopper"-bodied Comets were highly successful, in the easily of Chrisman, Kenz and Leslie, and Eddie Schartman; at the 1966 World Final, Schartman would get NHRA'southward beginning official Funny Automobile title winner.[x]

Tom McEwen, ameliorate known for his dragster racing, flirted with funny cars in 1965, as did Lou Barney, a veteran slingshot racer; Barney's hemi-powered, mid-engined Barracuda proved unsafe, before being replaced by another, which turned out to exist "one of the quickest early match racers".[16] So did Gary Gabelich,[24] probably better known for land speed racing, in the Beach Urban center Chevrolet-sponsored Sting Ray.[24]

Earlier TF/FC became an official course, funny cars were run as B/FDs and C/FDs (B and C/Fuel Dragster),[25] an odd classification, since they were bodied cars, non dragsters.

In 1965, Ford produced Holman and Moody-congenital fiberglass-bodied Mustangs for (among others) Gas Ronda, who was the most successful Ford racer. In 1966, Mercury offered a revolutionary flopper-bodied Comet, as exemplified by Don Nicholson's Eliminator I, which clocked a 7.98 at Detroit Dragway in its debut season, the quickest of the fuel injected cars.[26] The car was built past Logghe Bros. (based in Detroit[27]) (with bodies by Fiberglass Trends), weighing in around 1,700 lb (770 kg), making it heavier than about contemporary height fuel dragsters.[28] (It would be the first Funny Car on the cover of Hot Rod, in April 1966.[29]) Similar cars went to Chrisman, "Fast Eddie" Schartman, and Kenz and Leslie.[30] These cars had the showtime coilover suspension in funny motorcar, and were powered by Hilborn-injected 427 SOHCs producing one,000 hp (750 kW) on eighty% nitro.[30] (Chrisman'south was the oddity, a roadster running a six-71 GMC supercharger.[30]) They were capable of mid-vii second due east.t.s at around 185 mph (298 km/h).[31] Schartman (working with Roy Steffey, on the "Flip-Top Fueller") would trounce Chrisman for Top Funny Car at the NHRA Globe Finals in 1966 at Tulsa, Oklahoma, with a pass of 8.28 at 174.41 mph (280.69 km/h).[31] Nicholson would fit a Pete Robinson-congenital Height Fuel 427 SOHC early in the 1967 season and plough 7.90s at effectually 180 mph (290 km/h), earning an fourscore-half dozen percent winning record.[32] (The success of the Meridian Fuel-engined Comets would eventually prompt both Ford and Chrysler to drop funny machine sponsorship.)[33] In 1967, Doug Thorley would record the beginning (unofficial) 200 mph (320 km/h) funny machine laissez passer in his Corvair at Lions.[24]

Fifty-fifty in 1965, Ford factory support wavered, since the manufacturer did not build street versions of the radically altered cars; by 1968, pioneering Chrysler was likewise considering withdrawal.[34] Of the privateers in this era, Bruce Larson's U.s.a.-1 (a '66 Chevelle with a Hilborn-injected 427 and iv-speed) was the most successful.[35] Among other early funny machine competitors were Hayden Proffitt, who faced Chrisman at Lions Dragway in 1966 and won in a Hicks and Sublet-chassised Corvair.[31] Butch Leal would body one of Logghe's first customer chassis with a fiberglass Plymouth Barracuda and run an injected 426 Hemi on 100% nitro; this car's best pass would exist a 7.82 at 182.16 mph (293.16 km/h),[31] with a career win ratio of ninety percent.[33] In 1967, Proffitt would take over the failed Grant Rebel SST AMC Rambler, aided past Les Shockley, "Famous" Amos Satterlee, and Dwight Guild.[24] Cistron Conway built the hemi Jeep Destroyer (sponsored by the U.S. Navy), and scored and then much success, NHRA banned Jeep funny cars in 1967.[36]

Logghe proved unable to keep upward with demand for chassis, leading to the creation of a funny motorcar chassis-building manufacture, which was soon joined by Dick Fletcher, Don Hardy, Ronnie Scrima, and a number of others.[37] Late in 1969, Pat Foster and John Buttera would devise a Summit Fuel dragster-way chassis to replace the "dune buggy" design common at the fourth dimension. This would go nether the Mustang Mach Is of Danny Ongais and Mickey Thompson. Similar chassis would be built past Logghe, Scrima, Buttera, Woody Gilmore, Don Long, and Steve Plueger, amongst others; this blueprint remains the standard in TF/FC.[37]

In 1968, Thorley would drive a rear-engined Javelin, built past Woody Gilmore, powered by an AMC 401.[38] (This engine would later on be replaced by a 392 hemi prepared by John Hoven and Glenn Okazaki.) That same year, Leal would sell his 'cuda to Don Schumacher.[38]

NHRA created the new Funny Car (TF/FC) form at the NHRA Winternationals in 1969; Funny Auto Eliminator (FCE) would be won by Clare Sanders, teammate of "Jungle Jim" Liberman.[39] Tragedy struck the same yr, with the death of Jerry Schwartz in the ex-Foster Mach I.[38] In a virtually identical car (except the colour), Ongais won a number of rounds, with passes frequently in the low sevens at over 182.16 mph (293.16 km/h), including taking Funny Car Eliminator at the USnats.[38] Cistron Snow would tape the first official 200 mph (320 km/h) laissez passer in the Keith Blackness-engined, Logghe-chassised 1969 Dodge Charger, Rambunctious.[40] One of the most famous (and popular) funny cars in NHRA history would announced in 1969: Chi-Town Hustler, a Charger prepared by Fakonas and Coil (driven past Pat Minnick).[forty]

Another Funny Car record was set in 1970 by Leroy Goldstein ("The Israeli Rocket"), then testing Firestone tires, with a 6.99 pass at Capitol Raceway, Funny Machine's starting time nether seven seconds.[41] By Nov, Jake Johnson in the hemi-powered Blue Max (driving for Harry Schmidt) turned in a 6.72 at 218 mph (351 km/h), at OCIR.[41] The big news that twelvemonth was the creation of Mattel Hot Wheels-sponsored team of Don Prudhomme and Tom McEwen.[41]

Don Garlits' 1971 accident in Top Fuel Dragster, which led to the creation of the revolutionary Swamp Rat 14, did not produce the same kind of modify in Funny Automobile, though at that place had been a number of rear-engined examples, including Thorley'due south Javelin and Dave Bowman'due south California Stud, which was the nigh successful of the rear-engined funny cars.[42]

The Funny Car Eliminator title at the 1971 Winternats would get to Roland Leong's Charger, Hawaiian.[43]

At the 1972 Supernationals, Jim Dunn recorded a historic win in his Barracuda, the first, and only, one by a mid-engined funny car[44] while Larry Fullerton in Trojan Equus caballus won the 1972 NHRA world championship setting a and then globe record.[ citation needed ]

In 1973, Shirley Muldowney teamed up with Connie Kalitta equally the Bounty Hunter and Bounty Huntress, in a pair of Ford Mustangs, hers a Buttera chassis, his a Logghe.[43]

Between 1973 and 1975, Ed "The Ace" McCulloch would score eighteen wins at NHRA national events in the Revell-sponsored Dodge Dart, Revellution.[43]

Shirl Greer would defeat Prudhomme in the concluding in 1974 to take the first NHRA Funny Car World Title.[45] He would suffer severe burns in the final later an engine exploded.[45]

In 1975, Raymond Beadle and Harry Schmidt resurrected the Blue Max; built by Tony Casarez Race Cars, the Mustang Two would win at Indianapolis. Beadle after bought out Schmidt and went on to seven funny car national titles, four with NHRA, three with IHRA.[45]

Mark Oswald, driving for Candies and Hughes (with Old Milwaukee sponsorship[46]), in 1984 did something no other driver has: he won both the NHRA and IHRA world championships.[47] The squad took four IHRA titles between 1983 and 1987, including two in a row, 1986 and 1987, as well as beating John Force in the 1986 Big Bud Shootout (losing to him the next year).[47]

Force betwixt 1987 and 1996 won lx-seven of 203 NHRA national events, four of nine Big Bud Shootouts, and six World Championships.[48] In 1996, with Austin Coil tuning, Force went to the concluding round in sixteen of nineteen national events, taking xiii wins, one of the best records ever in Funny Auto history.[49] Force's domination in 1989 would simply really exist challenged by Bruce Larson, a long-time Eastward Coast match racer, with Outlaw sprint car driver Maynard Yingst equally his tuner, winning six events and taking the runner-up spot five times, in an Oldsmobile sponsored by Sentry.[fifty] In 1992, the honor of putting Force on the trailer would go to Cruz Pedregon, driving the Larry Small-scale McDonald'south-sponsored Olds to the championship.[fifty] Pedregon was also one of the beginning Funny Car drivers to clock a five-2nd due east.t.[50]

Ed McCulloch in 1988 would claim the US$100,000 prize for winning both IHRA TF/FC events at Texas Motorplex; Eddie Colina would practice the same in TFD that year. (Billy Meyer, who owned IRHA and offered the prize, would sell at season'due south terminate.)[47]

Kenny Bernstein and tuner Dale Armstrong would plough to state speed racers the Arivett brothers to design Bernstein's car in 1989.[51] This auto would exist dubbed the "Batmobile".[52] Information technology would greatly change Funny Car aerodynamics.[51]

In 1991, Jim White, driving for Leong, turned in two of the fastest Funny Machine passes to date, at over 290 mph (470 km/h), and placed 2nd to Force in the championship.[50]

Al and Helen Hoffman, with tuner Tom Anderson, "were the antithesis of the corporate button-down shirt racers".[53] Sponsored by Blower Bulldoze Service and after Sears, Roebuck, & Co.,[54] during the 1990s, Hoffman earned eleven national event wins, also equally the 1991 Winston Invitational and the U. S. Nationals non-championship money race in 1991, 1994, and 1995.[47]

Tom McEwen would build his "gorgeous" replica '57 Funny Motorcar, running it as an NHRA exhibition vehicle and creating Nostalgia Funny Car, even though the car would non (now) exist legal in that course.[55]

Major corporate sponsorship coin came to Funny Car starting in 1997, leading to significant changes in the sport. Multi-car teams, with several tuners each, became commonplace, and single car teams "had a very slim take a chance of winning an NHRA World Championship".[56] Force's domination would go along, with ten NHRA FC World Championship wins from 1993 to 2002, including vi straight 1997–2002; his success was and so amazing, he was accused of cheating (and was willing to strip off his firesuit to prove he was non).[57] Betwixt 1997 and 2006, Forcefulness went to the concluding in 105 of 228 events and took sixty-one tour wins, as well as qualifying for all x Big Bud Shootouts, winning in 2000 and 2006. Between 1997 and 2006, Force went to the final in 105 of 228 events and took 60-ane bout wins.[58] On peak of that, he had ten of the quickest or fastest passes in Funny Car.[58]

In contempo years, a resurgence of interest in vintage drag cars has created many new "nostalgia" funny cars, which are newly made vintage-style funny car bodies mounted on modern funny automobile frames or, in certain cases, newly congenital frames that look close to the originals and are made NHRA legal. These "Nostalgia Funny Cars" oftentimes compete in diverse nostalgia drag racing events, such as the NHRA Heritage Hot Rod Racing Serial, which includes the National Hot Rod Reunion and the California Hot Rod Reunion.

In 2007, NHRA express technical innovation in Funny Motorcar, as well equally introducing a 1,000 ft (300 m) track length and restrictions on maximum engine revs.[9]

Nitro Funny Auto racing has never been more than competitive than since 2006.[9] The dominance of John Force Racing concluded in 2006 and between 2007 and 2015 was equalled by DSR, with three TF/FC titles each.[9] Funny Motorcar is dominated past multi-automobile teams, with merely Cruz Pedregon, Jim Dunn, and Tim Wilkerson maintaining the traditional ane-car operation.[9]

NHRA Top Fuel Funny Car champions [edit]

  • 1969 - Clare Sanders (Funny Car Eliminator)
  • 1974 - Shirl Greer
  • 1975 - Don Prudhomme
  • 1976 - Don Prudhomme
  • 1977 - Don Prudhomme
  • 1978 - Don Prudhomme
  • 1979 - Raymond Beadle
  • 1980 - Raymond Beadle
  • 1981 - Raymond Beadle
  • 1982 - Frank Hawley
  • 1983 - Frank Hawley
  • 1984 - Marker Oswald
  • 1985 - Kenny Bernstein
  • 1986 - Kenny Bernstein
  • 1987 - Kenny Bernstein
  • 1988 - Kenny Bernstein
  • 1989 - Bruce Larson
  • 1990 - John Force
  • 1991 - John Strength
  • 1992 - Cruz Pedregon
  • 1993 - John Force
  • 1994 - John Force
  • 1995 - John Force
  • 1996 - John Forcefulness
  • 1997 - John Force
  • 1998 - John Force
  • 1999 - John Strength
  • 2000 - John Force
  • 2001 - John Force
  • 2002 - John Force
  • 2003 - Tony Pedregon
  • 2004 - John Force
  • 2005 - Gary Scelzi
  • 2006 - John Force
  • 2007 - Tony Pedregon
  • 2008 - Cruz Pedregon
  • 2009 - Robert Hight
  • 2010 - John Force
  • 2011 - Matt Hagan
  • 2012 - Jack Beckman
  • 2013 - John Forcefulness[59]
  • 2014 - Matt Hagan
  • 2015 - Del Worsham
  • 2016 - Ron Capps
  • 2017 - Robert Hight
  • 2018 - JR Todd
  • 2019 - Robert Hight
  • 2020 - Matt Hagan
  • 2021 - Ron Capps

Currently, John Force is the commuter in the Funny Car class with the most wins, having 16 championships, over ane,000 round wins and over 155 National Event wins. He is also the owner with the almost funny car championships with xx, since Tony Pedregon (2003) and Robert Hight (2009, 2017 and 2019) accept won 4 titles while on his squad. Strength's one-time crew chief, Austin Coil, also has logged the highest number of wins in that position.

Virtually NHRA Funny Car wins [edit]

Driver Wins
John Force 155
Ron Capps 69
Robert Hight 56
Tony Pedregon 43
Matt Hagan 42
Cruz Pedregon 38
Don Prudhomme 35
Jack Beckman 33
Del Worsham 31
Kenny Bernstein thirty
Tim Wilkerson 22
Tommy Johnson Jr 21
Whit Bazemore 20
Marking Oswald 18
Ed McCulloch eighteen
Al Hoffman xv
Chuck Etchells 13
Raymond Beadle thirteen
Gary Scelzi 12
Courtney Force 12
Billy Meyer eleven
JR Todd x
Mike Neff 10
Mike Dunn 10
Gordie Bonin ix
Bob Tasca III 9
Gary Densham 8

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  41. ^ a b c McClurg, p.44 caption.
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  46. ^ Burk, p.59 photo.
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  51. ^ a b Burk, p.53.
  52. ^ Burk, p.55.
  53. ^ Burk, p.56 and 58.
  54. ^ Burk, p.58 photograph.
  55. ^ Burk, pp.58-9.
  56. ^ Burk, p.59.
  57. ^ Burk, p.lx.
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Sources [edit]

  • Burk, Jeff. "fifty Years of Funny Cars: Function 3" in Drag Racer, Nov 2016, pp. 52–64.
  • McClurg, Bob. "50 Years of Funny Cars: Role two" in Elevate Racer, November 2016, pp. 35–50.
  • Taylor, Thom. "Beauty Beyond the Twilight Zone" in Hot Rod, April 2017, pp. 30–43.
  • Wallace, Dave. "l Years of Funny Cars: Office 1" in Drag Racer, Nov 2016, pp. 21–32.

External links [edit]

  • NHRA National Hot Rod Clan Website
  • IHRA International Hot Rod Association Website
  • Drag Race Central
  • Bully Lakes Nostalgia Funny Car Circuit

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