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DeJoria spent the next two years racing on the West coast in Top Alcohol Funny Car (TA/FC). [citation needed] In 2009, DeJoria built her own racing team, Stealth Motorsports. [citation needed] At the 2011 NHRA Northwest Fall Nationals, she won her first ever NHRA national event win in TA/FC, becoming the second woman ever to do so. She co-owned ...
Gordon Mineo (June 19, 1945 [1]-September 3, 2006), nicknamed "Flash Gordon", was a Top Fuel Funny Car driver. Mineo was born in Detroit, Michigan, son of Joseph and Lorraine Mineo. [2] He started racing Funny Cars in the 1960s and continued to race until the 1990s. [3]
Doug Thorley (died March 10, 2021) was an American Funny Car drag racer, hot rodder [1] and businessman. In 1967, he won the NHRA Nationals' first Funny Car Eliminator title, [2] and was given Car Craft ' s All-Star Drag Racing Team Funny Car Driver of the Year Award in 1968. [3]
Funny Car is a type of drag racing vehicle and a specific racing class in organized drag racing. Funny cars are characterized by having tilt-up fiberglass or carbon fiber automotive bodies over a custom-fabricated chassis, giving them an appearance vaguely approximating manufacturers' showroom models. They also have the engine placed in front ...
Rambunctious, #26 1975 Funny Car Top Fuel, c. 1990. Gene Snow was an American racing driver who pioneered funny cars in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, bringing innovations such as a direct drive system using multiple clutches when rivals were still using automatic transmissions based on those used in production models. [1]
Al Hofmann (November 28, 1947 – March 20, 2008) was an American dragracer and drag car owner in the funny car division from Umatilla, Florida.He raced in the National Hot Rod Association.
Raymond Beadle (December 16, 1943 – October 20, 2014) was an American drag racer and auto racing team owner. Beadle was perhaps best known as the driver and owner of the Blue Max Top Fuel funny car. Beadle won three consecutive NHRA Funny Car championships from 1979 to 1981 and three IHRA Funny Car championships, 1975–76 and 1981.
Eric John Medlen (August 13, 1973 – March 23, 2007) [1] was an NHRA Fuel Funny Car driver. Medlen drove for John Force Racing in 2004, 2005, and 2006, campaigning in the Castrol Syntec Ford Mustang Fuel Funny Car, and in 2007, campaigning in the Auto Club/Pleasant Holiday Ford Mustang Fuel Funny Car. He had a total of six career wins.