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1993 TOP FUEL WORLD CHAMPION EDDIE HILL

  • Won first world championship
  • Scored class-record-tying six wins
  • Won three of season’s first five races
  • At 57, became NHRA’s oldest world champ
  • Yellow dragster was dubbed “the Nuclear Banana”

Top Fuel world champion
Eddie Hill

Funny Car world champion
John Force

Pro Stock world champion
Warren Johnson

Pro Stock Motorcycle world champion
Dave Schultz

Top Alcohol Dragster world champion
Blaine Johnson

Top Alcohol Funny Car world champion
Randy Anderson

Comp eliminator world champion
Bill Maropulos

Super Stock world champion
Greg Stanfield

Stock eliminator world champion
Jason Line

Super Comp world champion
Scotty Richardson

Super Gas world champion
John Wood

1993

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

FIRST FOUR-SECOND FUNNY CAR

During qualifying for the Sears Craftsman NHRA Nationals in Topeka, Kan., Chuck Etchells became the first Funny Car driver to cover the quarter-mile in less than five seconds with a barrier-busting 4.987 blast.

FIRST 300-MPH FUNNY CAR RUN

Jim Epler became the first Funny Car driver to exceed 300 mph with a blast of 300.40 mph at the Sears Craftsman NHRA Nationals in Topeka, Kan. The previous best speed ever recorded was 295.27 mph.

FORCE FINALLY WINS INDY

After 15 fruitless attempts, Funny Car legend John Force finally won the prestigious NHRA U.S. Nationals, defeating second-year driver and Japanese native Kenji Okazaki in the final round.

ANDRETTI GOES STRAIGHT

Circle-track racer John Andretti, nephew of motorsports great Mario Andretti, reached the semifinals of Top Fuel in his debut in Atlanta at the wheel of former Major League Baseball player Jack Clark’s dragster.

1993

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

1993 rookie

Kurt Johnson

The second-generation Pro Stock racer and son of class icon Warren Johnson finished second in points behind his father after a three-win/four-runner-up rookie season, twice defeating his father in final rounds.

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