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1992 PRO STOCK WORLD CHAMPION WARREN JOHNSON

  • Scored first of six world championships
  • Collected eight wins in nine final rounds
  • Won NHRA U.S. Nationals for first time since 1984
  • Qualified No. 1 four times
  • Pioneered Oldsmobile DRCE engine

Top Fuel world champion
Joe Amato

Funny Car world champion
Cruz Pedregon

Pro Stock world champion
Warren Johnson

Pro Stock Motorcycle world champion
John Myers

Top Alcohol Dragster world champion
Blaine Johnson

Top Alcohol Funny Car world champion
Bob Newberry

Comp eliminator world champion
Steve Johns

Super Stock world champion
Greg Stanfield

Stock eliminator world champion
Chad Guilford

Super Comp world champion
Edmond Richardson

Super Gas world champion
Jeg Coughlin Jr.

1992

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

BERNSTEIN SHATTERS 300-MPH BARRIER

Kenny Bernstein became the first driver to eclipse the 300-mph mark, recording a speed of 301.70 mph in his Budweiser King Top Fueler March 20 during qualifying at the NHRA Gatornationals in Florida.

PHOENIX FINALS LIVE ON TV

The Professional final rounds at the NHRA Motorcraft-Ford Nationals in Phoenix were telecast live, the first time they were seen live from coast to coast on TNN. It was the first of six such telecasts that season.

PEDREGON SCORES FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP

John Force missed winning only one NHRA Funny Car championship in the 1990s, in 1992, when former Top Fuel racer Cruz Pedregon won the championship in his first season in the class.

JR DRAGSTERS MAKE DEBUT

The first half-scale dragsters, five-horsepower starter cars for kids designed specifically for NHRA’s Jr. Drag Racing League, debuted in Englishtown, N.J., kicking off a pilot program that today is a hallmark of the sport.

1992

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

1992 rookie

Dannielle DePorter

The second-generation drag racer from Arizona finished 10th in her rookie season in Top Fuel after notching a best of a semifinal finish in her car, tuned by former Funny Car world championship runner-up Paul Smith.

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