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2011 FUNNY CAR WORLD CHAMPION MATT HAGAN

  • Won first career world championship
  • Posted the first three-second run in Funny Car history in Charlotte
  • Scored two wins in four final rounds
  • Both wins came in Countdown to the Championship playoffs
  • Compiled 33-20 win-loss record

Top Fuel world champion
Del Worsham

Funny Car world champion
Matt Hagan

Pro Stock world champion
Jason Line

Pro Stock Motorcycle world champion
Eddie Krawiec

Pro Mod world champion
Khalid alBalooshi

Top Alcohol Dragster world champion
Duane Shields

Top Alcohol Funny Car world champion
Frank Manzo

Comp eliminator world champion
Lou Ficco Jr.

Super Stock world champion
Jackie Alley

Stock eliminator world champion
Joe Santangelo II

Super Comp world champion
Gary Stinnett

Super Gas world champion
Peter Biondo

2011

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

MIC DROP FOR WORSHAM

Del Worsham earned his first NHRA world championship in Top Fuel after a 22-year career and immediately announced his retirement from driving to become a full-time crew chief.

IT’S FORCE, OF COURSE

John Force’s comeback championship after his 2007 accident was named the greatest moment in NHRA history during NHRA’s 60th anniversary celebration.

LONG LIVE THE KING

After six world championships and more than 90 wins as a driver and team owner in Top Fuel and Funny Car, “the Budweiser King,” Kenny Bernstein, announced his retirement from drag racing.

NEW-LOOK TREE DEBUTS

The current design of the Christmas Tree, with four specially designed LED pre-stage/stage units indicating the pre-stage/stage positions, debuted at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals in Charlotte to make staging easier across all four lanes.

2011

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

2011 rookie

Hector Arana Jr.

Second-generation Pro Stock Motorcycle rider Hector Arana Jr. won the prestigious NHRA U.S. Nationals and then raced to two victories during the Countdown to the Championship playoffs for a second-place points finish.

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