![]() ![]() ![]() With tons of horsepower underfoot, varying track conditions, and hundreds of moving parts, perfection is hard to attain in professional drag racing. Prudhomme and the almost mythical 1976 season. Herrera was the clear winner here, as his Mission Foods/Vance & Hines Suzuki missed just once, in Denver, where he qualified third.Īnd now onto Mr. Slight edge to Herrera over Force, but how can you even call Schumacher the "loser" here after a nearly 90% win ratio with the Alan Johnson-tuned Army dragster?Īnd, finally, the percentage of No. So, even though Force's Castrol GTX Pontiac had less event wins than Anderson and Schumacher (13 to 15), his final-round percentage is top among all four classes, even better than Herrera, as was Anderson. Let’s stack the modern four in a few ways first, win percentage of events on the schedule: DriverĪ clear win for Herrera, but Force also had three runner-ups, Anderson had four in the Summit GTO, Schumacher had three, and Herrera had just one, so let’s look at their percentages of reaching final rounds: Driver ![]() He accumulated a stunning 50-4 win-loss record (92.6%) in national event competition, and if you add his three round-wins in the non-points Pro Stock Motorcycle Callout in Sonoma, the record balloons to 53-4 and about 93%, but for this reckoning, let’s stick with the national event stats.īut how does it stack up against some of the other great seasons in drag racing history? The current records in Top Fuel and Funny Car are both 15 wins - Tony Schumacher in 2008 and Greg Anderson in 2004, respectively - while the Funny Car mark is 13, set by the GOAT, John Force, in 1996.Īnd, finally, we will stack them all up against Don Prudhomme’s unearthly 1976 Funny Car campaign in which he won seven of eight national events. 1 qualifying efforts (14 of 15) that will go in the history books as one of the best statistical seasons on history. Newly crowned Pro Stock Motorcycle champion Gaige Herrera had a season for the ages, scoring 11 times in 15 events to set a new class record and also set another record for most No. ![]()
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