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1988 PRO STOCK MOTORCYCLE WORLD CHAMPION DAVE SCHULTZ

  • Scored second straight championship
  • Championship was second of six career titles
  • Collected three wins in eight-race schedule
  • Won NHRA U.S. Nationals for second straight year

Top Fuel world champion
Joe Amato

Funny Car world champion
Kenny Bernstein

Pro Stock world champion
Bob Glidden

Pro Stock Motorcycle world champion
Dave Schultz

Top Alcohol Dragster world champion
Mike Troxel

Top Alcohol Funny Car world champion
Pat Austin

Comp eliminator world champion
Garley Daniels

Super Stock world champion
Jeff Taylor

Stock eliminator world champion
Sammy Pizzolato

Super Comp world champion
Robert Sellers

Super Gas world champion
Vince Khoury

1988

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

MILLION-DOLLAR POINTS FUND

For the first time in NHRA history, competitors on the yearlong NHRA Winston Drag Racing Series battled for a share of more than $1 million, making it the richest in NHRA Championship Drag Racing history.

FOUR-SECOND BARRIER BROKEN

At the NHRA Supernationals in Texas in October, Gene Snow became the first NHRA Top Fuel driver to record a four-second run, six months after Eddie Hill did it first at a non-NHRA event.

INTERVAL TIMING INTRODUCED

At the season-opening NHRA Winternationals, drivers for the first time received time slips that included 330- and 660-foot elapsed time clockings with 1,000-foot timing scheduled to be added in the future.

BERNSTEIN’S BUSY WEEKEND

In addition to running his Budweiser King Funny Car, Kenny Bernstein’s two IndyCars were running at the Indy 500 and Ricky Rudd was driving his Buick on the NASCAR tour at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

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