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Cruz Pedregon (born September 19, 1963) is a 2-time NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Funny Car Champion from Torrance, California. He is the brother of Tony Pedregon, also a two-time Funny Car Champion & Frank Pedregon Jr. who has won multiple NHRA National Events. [1] He currently races for his own team, Cruz Pedregon Racing, Inc.
John Harold Force (born May 4, 1949) is an American NHRA drag racer.He is a 16-time NHRA and 1 time AHRA Funny Car champion driver and a 22-time champion car owner. Force owns and drives for John Force Racing (JFR).
John Force Racing is an NHRA drag racing team. In over 30 years of competition, John Force Racing has won two Top Fuel and 21 Funny Car championships. The current line-up of drivers includes Top Fuel driver Brittany Force and Funny Car drivers Austin Prock and Jack Beckman. [1]
Currently, John Force is the driver in the Funny Car class with the most wins, having 16 championships, more than 1,000 round wins and also 157 career wins. He is also the owner with the most Funny Car championships with 21, since Tony Pedregon (2003), Robert Hight (2009, 2017 and 2019), and Austin Prock (2024) have won five titles while on his ...
In 1991, Worsham became the youngest driver (age 21) to win a Funny Car event [3] and went on to win the NHRA Rookie of the Year. [4] His best finish in the Point Standings first came in 2011 when he won the NHRA Full Throttle Championship in Top Fuel. [5] In 2015, Worsham won the NHRA Mello Yello Championship in Funny Car. [1]
He has 157 race wins and has won 16 Funny Car titles. Force was the most dominant driver in American motorsports in the 1990s with 13 championships from 1990 to 2004. Show comments
Pedregon recorded his Career-best E.T. is the seventh quickest Funny Car pass in NHRA history and Recorded two of the 10 fastest Funny Car speeds in NHRA history (331.28, Chicago 1; 329.83, Atlanta). His career won-lost record in elimination rounds of 319-189 is 13th-best among all active pro drivers with 50 or more decisions.
In 1962, Prudhomme was a partner in the Greer-Black-Prudhomme fuel digger, which earned the best win record in National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) history, [3] before switching to Funny Car. He would win the NHRA FC championship four times in his 35-year career. He earned the nickname "The Snake" in high school.