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2006 PRO STOCK WORLD CHAMPION JASON LINE

  • First of three career world championships
  • Scored four wins and five runner-ups
  • Moved into first place at midseason and never lost lead
  • Reset national record twice during season
  • Compiled 46-19 win-loss record

Top Fuel world champion
Tony Schumacher

Funny Car world champion
John Force

Pro Stock world champion
Jason Line

Pro Stock Motorcycle world champion
Andrew Hines

Top Alcohol Dragster world champion
Bill Reichert

Top Alcohol Funny Car world champion
Frank Manzo

Comp eliminator world champion
Bo Butner

Super Stock world champion
Peter Biondo

Stock eliminator world champion
Randy Wilkes

Super Comp world champion
Ron Erks

Super Gas world champion
Iggie Boicesco

2006

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

‘THE RUN’

Tony Schumacher and crew chief Alan Johnson clinched the Top Fuel championship with a final-round run at the NHRA World Finals that reset the national record to steal the crown from Doug Kalitta.

RECORD PERFORMANCES

The national e.t. records and bump spots for quickest fields were reset in all four Pro classes. Speed records were broken in Funny Car and Pro Stock, and the quickest side-by-side races were run in three classes.

A YEAR OF LOSSES

Barbara Parks, wife of NHRA founder Wally, passed away Jan. 25. NHRA greats “Dyno Don” Nicholson and Ronnie Sox also died in 2006, along with Scott Geoffrion, “Big John” Mazmanian, Gene Mooneyham, and 1964 Top Fuel world champion Jack Williams.

DRIVING FORCE

Fans got to see a side of John Force they’d never seen as the Funny Car superstar and his family were the subjects of a hit reality TV show, Driving Force, which aired on the A&E Network.

2006

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

J.R. Todd

J.R. Todd, who became the first Black driver to win a Top Fuel race with his victory over Tony Schumacher in Denver, earned two more victories to finish the season in eighth place in the Top Fuel points standings behind the wheel of his Skull Shine dragster.

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