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2021

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2021 FUNNY CAR WORLD CHAMPION RON CAPPS

  • Collected second career championship (2016)
  • Scored two wins and three runner-up finishes
  • Was top seed for Countdown to the Championship playoffs
  • Runner-up finish at the NHRA U.S. Nationals
  • Won with new crew chief Dean Antonelli and John Medlen

Top Fuel world champion
Steve Torrence

Funny Car world champion
Ron Capps

Pro Stock world champion
Greg Anderson

Pro Stock Motorcycle world champion
Matt Smith

Pro Mod world champion
Jose Gonzalez

Top Alcohol Dragster world champion
Rachel Meyer

Top Alcohol Funny Car world champion
Sean Bellemeur

Comp eliminator world champion
Bruno Massel Jr.

Super Stock world champion
Greg Stanfield

Stock eliminator world champion
Jerry Emmons

Factory Stock world champion
Aaron Stanfield

Super Comp world champion
Christopher Dodd

Super Gas world champion
Luke Bogacki

Top Dragster world champion
Blake Peavler

Top Sportsman world champion
Jimmy Lewis

2021

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

SEASON KICKS OFF IN GAINESVILLE

Instead of launching the season at the NHRA Winternationals in Pomona, as it has since 1961, Southern California’s post-COVID-19 regulations forced the race to July and the season began at the NHRA Gatornationals in Florida.

NHRA CELEBRATES 1,000TH EVENT

The penultimate event of the season, in Las Vegas, was the 1,000th NHRA national event staged, a legacy that began in Great Bend, Kan., in 1955. Special Wallys and commemorative 1,000th-event poker chips were handed out.

DRAMATIC SEASON FINISH

Steve Torrence, Ron Capps, Greg Anderson, and Matt Smith all clinched their championships on the final day of the season at the NHRA Finals, which retuned after a year’s absence due to COVID-19.

ANDERSON SURPASSES W.J.

Greg Anderson’s championship was his fifth and wrapped up a season in which he also scored his 98th (and 99th) career wins to surpass mentor Warren Johnson’s 97 wins as Pro Stock’s winningest driver.

2021

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

2021 rookie

Dallas Glenn

Glenn won the four-wide event at zMAX Dragway in Charlotte in just his fourth career start and added three more victories, including a win in Topeka, Kan., where he posted a perfect .000 reaction time in the final round. Glenn proved to be outstanding on the starting line, also advancing to final rounds in St. Louis and Sonoma and driving to one No. 1 qualifier in his first year.

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