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1970 PRO STOCK WORLD CHAMPION RONNIE SOX

  • Became NHRA’s first Pro Stock champion
  • Won three of seven events
  • Appeared in five final rounds
  • Was the 1969 Super Stock world champ
  • Drove Sox & Martin

Top Fuel world champion
Ronnie Martin

Funny Car world champion
Gene Snow

Pro Stock world champion
Ronnie Sox

Top Gas world champion
Ray Motes

Comp eliminator world champion
Ben Griffin

Modified world champion
Carroll Caudle

Stock eliminator world champion
Bobby Warren

Super Stock world champion
Ray Allen

1970

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

‘SUPER SEASON’ ADDS THREE EVENTS

NHRA added three new national events to create a seven-race “Super Season” schedule, with the NHRA Gatornationals, NHRA Summernationals, and NHRA Supernationals added to tour nearly doubling 1969’s four-race itinerary.

PRO STOCK BECOMES OFFICIAL CLASS

NHRA made sweeping changes to eliminator category names, including the introduction of a “heads-up Super Stock” class that was named Pro Stock. Bill Jenkins won the first race at the NHRA Winternationals.

WILD INDY TOP FUEL FINAL

Don Prudhomme won the NHRA U.S. Nationals Top Fuel title for the third time in one of the most dramatic finals in history as runner-up Jim Nicoll’s car was sawed in two by an exploding clutch.

FIRE SYSTEMS IN FUNNY CARS

Starting in June, NHRA mandated that all nitromethane-burning Funny Cars be equipped with an onboard fire extinguisher system following a rash of fires the two previous seasons.

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