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When given to roadgoing production cars, this list only includes cars that had nicknames given to them during their racing career " Aero Warriors " = 1969 Ford Torino Talladega , NASCAR stocker [ 1 ]
Dorf Goes Auto Racing: 1990 Comedy Stock car Direct-to-video short film. Part of Tim Conway's Dorf series. Days of Thunder: 1990 Drama Stock car Tom Cruise as a NASCAR newcomer, based loosely on Tim Richmond. [5] Thunderbolt: 1995 Action Touring car Hong Kong film with Jackie Chan as a race-car mechanic. [2] Race the Sun: 1996 Family Solar car
The Trojan Horse was a world champion funny car owned by Larry Fullerton from the late 1960s until his death in 1981. Larry Fullerton and the Trojan Horse won the 1972 NHRA world championship setting a then world record.
Note at Norwalk, the first two rounds were televised live on Fox Sports 1, and the remainder aired on tape delay on Fox Sports 2 after the NASCAR race, as Fox Sports 1 had coverage of the 2016 Copa America final. The first Brainerd Top Fuel and Funny Car, and the first Lucas Oil Raceway Pro Stock (car) final aired on tape delay (FS1).
Matt Hagan is a professional NHRA funny car driver for Tony Stewart Racing. Most notably, he was the 2011, 2014, 2020 and 2023 NHRA Funny Car World Champion. He has had a total of 49 Career Event titles, 87 Career Final Rounds, and 21 Career No.1 qualifying positions. [1] He is driver of the 14 Dodge Power Brokers Funny Car team led by Dickie ...
He led the season points standings from start to finish to claim the 1989 NHRA Funny Car national championship. [2] He was voted Car Craft magazine's Funny Car Driver of the Year. [2] Larson raced his first Top Fuel car in June 1992. He took over "Big Daddy" Don Garlits' car and won 4 IHRA National events when Garlits retired due to a detached ...
He began his national Nitro Funny Car career in 1996. He was the first funny car rookie to run over 300 mph and the first funny car rookie in the 4s. He went to his first Nitro Funny Car final at the NHRA US Nationals in 1997. He finished 7th in points in 1998. Wilkerson won his first race in Joliet, Illinois in 1999. On September 7, 2003, he ...
Ron Capps (born June 20, 1965) is an American NHRA Funny Car racer who owns and drives the NAPA Auto Parts Toyota Supra.. Capps drove for Don Prudhomme, who recruited him from Top Fuel dragsters, and later for Don Schumacher, winning twenty NHRA Funny Car national events and three Skoal Showdowns, coming second in the NHRA title race three times, twice behind John Force, once (while with ...