![]() McDonald's announced it would back Minor Motorsports' two-car fuel team and was named NHRA's official quick-service restaurant. Reinhart wrote a whole column about it for us at NHRA National Dragster - it was his first for us, that he continues to this day - that I’ve reprinted here. If you go to enough drag races, you’ll hear NHRA announcer Alan Reinhart harked back to what we insiders like to refer to simply as “Phoenix ’92,” because, in addition to the whole live TV thing and Austin’s double, a whole lotta other weirdness took place there. became the youngest female winner in history when she won in Super Comp. Motorcycle legend Bryon Hines - father of future world champions Matt and Andrew - won his first and only Pro stock Motorcycle race as a rider in Topeka and became the first (and still only) rider to win aboard a Yamaha.Īt that same event, 17-year-old Wendy Johnson - sister of fuel phenom Tommy Johnson Jr. ![]() Scoreboard watchers were in heaven at the Keystone Nationals, where the first 4.7-second Top Fuel run (Cory McClenathan), the first 5.0-second Funny Car pass (Cruz Pedregon), and the first 7.0-second Pro Stock performance (Scott Geoffrion) all took place. Nationals runner-up behind John Force in Indy, was runner-up at the Big Bud Shootout in Indy in 1994, and won the Shootout in 1997. He failed to qualify for the race, but two races later made more history as the first Japanese racer to win a round of racing. Kenji Okazaki became the first Japanese national to race in NHRA national event competition when he drove Jim Dunn's entry at the U.S. McFarlin defeated Southern Nationals winner Don Beverley. Richardson accomplished the incredible “double-up” feat four more times between 19, and his five doubles are the most by any racer.Īt the NHRA Mid-South Nationals in May, Lucinda McFarlin made Pro Stock history as the first female to win an eliminations round. As of today, 21 drivers have scored 50 or more wins.Įdmond Richardson, who sits one win shy of 50 victories, became just the second driver (behind Austin) to double up at a national event and the first to win two carbureted-class trophies on the same day when he won Super Comp and Super Street at the Southern Nationals. Later that year, Austin became just the second driver - behind Bob Glidden - to reach the 50-wins milestone with his Alcohol Funny Car win in Topeka. Just a few months after making history at the 1991 Topeka event as the first driver to win in two classes (Top Fuel and Top Alcohol Funny Car) at the same national event, Pat Austin duplicated the feat at the 1992 Phoenix event in the same classes. NHRA announcer Steve Evans, legendary drag racer "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, and race analyst Brock Yates called the action. ![]() The half-hour live telecast was a special presentation of the weekly American Sports Cavalcade and was the first of six such telecasts of NHRA Winston Drag Racing scheduled by TNN this season. In a game-changing moment, The Nashville Network (TNN) aired live coverage of the Professional final rounds at the Motorcraft-Ford Nationals from Firebird Int'l Raceway in Chandler, Ariz. This classic schedule would remain in place through 19 before Richmond, Va., was added between Columbus and Englishtown in 1995. The 1992 national event schedule comprised 18 events, just as it had the previous year, and remarkably, the schedule order remained unchanged: Pomona, Phoenix, Houston, Gainesville, Atlanta, Memphis, Columbus, Montreal, Englishtown, Denver, Sonoma, Seattle, Brainerd, Indy, Reading, Topeka, Dallas, Pomona. On Tuesday, I wrote about the 1992 event, but the 1992 season as a whole was filled with big news, history-making moments, and craziness, so I thought I’d take a 30-year hop back in time to remember that season. For the last week or so, we’ve been saluting the history of Houston Raceway Park on, having created a list of 10 memorable moments from the past 33 years, some of which read like mini Dragster Insider columns. ![]()
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