Blaines was the NHRAs first Top Fuel death since Pete Robinson was killed in the 1971 Winternationals (another Top Fuel driver, Darrell Russell, perished in 2004). But as I dug into it and realized what really caused the problem, and that it wasnt a bad tune-up or anything like that, it was a rod bolt failure. Ive been innovating my entire career, from alcohol through Top Fuel. Furthermore, Chip Ganassi Racing plans to hire one of the 2022 Women In Motorsports interns, Rebecca Hutton, as a full-time engineer upon graduating from college soon. Discover today's celebrity birthdays and explore famous people who share your birthday. The people at Marathon Petroleum have gone above and beyond for me in business and on track, and I cant thank them enough for what theyve done for our team the last two years.. When hes in his zone, he thinks of nothing but winning the next race. Currently AJPE is in the design stage of two more cylinder head packages that will be like no other, 2023 Alan Johnson Performance Engineering. And Ill continue doing that, he said. Alan Johnson and his brother Blaine grew up on their Johnson Family dairy farm. In 2001, Bernstein competed in the NHRA Top Alcohol Series and eventually won driver of the year honors. Johnson didnt win a championship with Torrence, but he won with Force and certainly got the job done with Tony Schumacher more times than you can count on one hand. AJ: If you want me to oversee this team and be a consultant, youve got to run my program, because thats all I know. Honestly I was bummed about Al Thanis pullout, Schumacher told reporters last week. Home - Alan Johnson Performance Engineering We Engineer Champions. The program is aimed to provide more women with opportunities in traditionally male-dominated careers in the field of motorsports. We're going to give it to the end of the month for sure, then we'll decide what we're going to do.". The 27-time NHRA winner loyal to his Mopar HEMI-powered Dodge said, "It's been an amazing run for my dad and I, but it just felt like now was the right time to step away from the Pro Stock chapter of our careers. Behind the Numbers Mike Salinas earned his first NHRA Drag Racing win ever with legendary tuner Alan Johnson at the helm. So, trying to balance and tune two different cars was something I found very difficult. . Lastly, I want to thank our loyal fans for their encouragement and support throughout this difficult year. Al Thani, once dubbed the sports patron sheik by The Wall Street Journal, formed his NHRA team partly to raise awareness of drag racing and other motorsports in Qatar, a country slightly smaller than Connecticut. The Winternationals win was one of two key season highlights for Langdon and AJR, along with Langdon recording the fastest elapsed time (3.662 seconds) ever seen on a 1,000-foot drag strip, last month at Brainerd, Minn. Langdon still has the potential to continue in the Countdown, which begins this weekend in Concord, N.C., according to NHRA spokesman Anthony Vestal. Per NHRA rule, the points go with the driver, so he would be eligible to continue in the Countdown If another team wants to put him in another car or a second car, Vestal told NBCSports.com. His company, Alan Johnson Performance Engineering, supplies racing parts to roughly 50 percent of todays Top Fuel and Funny Car teams. With (crew chief) Alan Johnson and Brian (Husen), and what they've brought to the team, we couldn't be more excited." Robert Hight led in Funny Car and Erica Enders in Pro Stock. They're upbeat. Dont want to bother him., Gary Sclezi could have warned Force. 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And I told her I was sorry. Johnson did just that earlier this month at the NHRA's season-opening Circle K Winternationals at Pomona, California . When he and Richard get together, it seems like good things happen. The preeminent driver in top fuel is U.S. Army-sponsored Tony Schumacher, who won a record eighth title last year and whose crew chief formerly was Johnson until Johnson left for Al-Anabi. 1 qualifier curse, Behind the Numbers: Rounding out our evaluation of drag racing performance. Alan Johnson "Mopar has been there for all those 22 years, through the good times and the bad, either as our primary or associate sponsor, and it's been just an amazing relationship. Of the four Dodges that attempted to qualify, only reigning series champ Leah Pritchett managed to get into the field, and she is 13th. But that doesnt mean the Brownsburg, Indiana-based team is gone for good. This actually reminds me of when I started racing and it was just me and my dad with our Super Stock car. Allen Johnson went from a child watching his father Roy race in the IHRA, seeing him "take a nickel and make a dime out of it," as the elder Johnson put it, to a small-business magnate in Greeneville, Tennessee. But a month ago, Al Thani and his estimated $10 million-plus of annual sponsorship money for the two-car team suddenly vanished without public explanation. 2023 Power Automedia. She is very smart, goal-driven, and committed to doing what it takes to win. I really kind of leave it with Robert Hight. Its one thing to have runs in a Top Fuel car and its another to have runs in a Top Fuel car that runs quick enough to win a championship. It was the same way with Blaine. Furthermore, Chip Ganassi Racing plans to hire one of the 2022 Women In Motorsports interns, Rebecca Hutton, as a full-time engineer upon graduating from college soon. Every championship that Gary won, Blaine would also have won the same ones because he was as good a driver, if not better, than Gary, Alan Johnson said. Billy Torrence, Force said he has no problem with sharing Johnson. 2004 AJPE Billet Big Block Chevy heads. This break will result in some of our crew members moving on to other opportunities, and we wish them all the best. Coil won a pair of Funny Car titles with Frank Hawley before adding another 15 with . Im laughing and he looked at me and he dont get it, Force said, adding that crew chief Brian Husen filled him in on one essential detail about working with Johnson. 5 in 2009 NHRA Full Throttle point standings. So while all the buzz was about Johnson and JFR aligning, Torrence took the headlines. When respected Top Fuel tuner Alan Johnson added John Force Racing to his Steve Torrence consulting duties, NHRA fans wondered how that would work. Anytime you can go to the racetrack and get twice as much data as opposed to being a single-car team, its a huge benefit. It started with a clean slate and was designed around three basic fundamentals: The ability to produce power, maintain its durability, and ease of maintenance. Johnson is responsible for one Top Fueler this season: the one driven by Salinas. 1994 brought several changes to Johnson Racing and AJPE. She was the first non-NASCAR recipient of the prestigious Russ Catlin Award and has covered the sport for the Chicago Tribune, Newark Star-Ledger, St. Petersburg Times, and Seattle Times. Its not like Pro Stock where you had to be on the gas 24/7. He went from a drag-racing road diet of bologna and cheese and, as mom Revonda recalled, potted meat and Beanie Weenies to the 2012 banquet table at a swank Los Angeles hotel, where he was feted with champagne and filet mignon as the NHRA Pro Stock champion. 2000 NHRA Pro-Stock head, Billet Small Block head. Winning is a team effort. Alan Reinhart and Joe Castello get ready for 2022 PRO Nitro Spring Training in Arizona 2/8/2022 Watch on WFO Radio has been podcasting interviews with NHRA Drag Racers for over a decade. These heads were designed for Blown Alcohol Dragster & Funny Car, NHRA and IHRA Pro-Modified, and a unique concept to the naturally aspirated injected Nitro combination. He went from being the self-described Other Dodge Boy to just about the only Dodge boy in the NHRA Pro Stock ranks. Im the motorhome driver, the chef, and the clean-up guy. In a sport with roots in the Southern California car culture, and in which many corporate backers are makers of cars, motor oils and other auto accessories, Al Thani was a novel source of fresh cash and energy for NHRA drag racing. Steve Torrence Racing announced last week that it was welcoming Alan Johnson on as a consultant for the remaining five races of the 2015 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season. PRIMARY PRODUCTs BILLET ALUMINUM CYLINDER HEADS The Winternationals opens with qualifying time trials at Auto Club Raceway on Friday and Saturday, followed by final eliminations Sunday that determine the event winners. Years ago, Scelzi said, A lot of people might think hes stuck up, but Alan just wants to win. In 2009, under the guidance of crew chief Rob Flynn, Bernstein won in Richmond, Virginia, had four runner-up finishes and was No. Chasing a championship became achievable as soon as Salinas hired Johnson. When the opportunity arose to work with Alan Johnson, a proven champion, and his crew chief Brian Husen, how could I resist?. NetWorthSpot's data suggests NHRA's net worth to be about $258.67 thousand. Salinas has gotten quicker (3.752 e.t. It keeps him thinking. Its a constant battle. The AJR marketing staff has worked diligently throughout the year securing funding to complete the 2015 season. People ask, How are you and Alan getting along? Force said. A loyal Mopar racer to the bitter end, Johnson has struggled to maintain a competitive pace with his Hemi-powered Drag Pak Challenger, which is painted in the Plumb Crazy purple color popularized by 1970s Mopar muscle cars. During 1999 AJPE added two new CNC machines to their manufacturing facility and broke ground on an additional 15,000 sq. season opener, with this weekends Circle K Winternationals in Pomona, where top-fuel cars scream down the dragstrip at 320 mph in about four seconds. They have decided to temporarily suspend operations at this time. When that double calamity occurred virtually simultaneously, Johnson lost control of his dragster and slammed into a wall, killing him instantly. Alan Reinhart and Joe Castello get ready for 2022 PRO Nitro Spring Training NHRA Testing 2/8/2022 Feb 08, 2022 NHRA announcers Alan Reinhart and Joe Castello preview 2022 PRO Nitro Spring Training at Wild Horse Motorsports Park. It's expensive to keep this whole thing going without some sort of corporate backing. Both Torrence and Force have acknowledged that theyre on-track rivals, but this tech alliance is mutually beneficial. Im the quarterback. The defending top-fuel winner of the Winternationals, Khalid alBalooshi of Dubai, was one of the two Al-Anabi drivers; the other was 2013 champion Shawn Langdon of Mira Loma, Calif. I've gotten close to so many folks from the brand, including Pietro [Gorlier, head of parts and service for Mopar], who has shown us great support. The initiative was launched one year ago to help drive awareness and support gender equality and economic inclusion for women in the workforce. He is currently the GM for Alan Johnson Racing. Alan Johnson is in the final stretch of a race he can't afford to lose. There wasnt a dry eye in the entire sold-out Lucas Oil Raceway crowd. It just helps me motivate myself, concentrate and try to do the best I can to excel when I come back here.. Theres more to tuning than 60-foot time, of course, but the correlation between quick elapsed times and quick 60-foot times is exceptionally high in nitro categories. I think it would have been a completely different story.. Johnson tuned Brittany Force from 2016 to 2018 as a tuning consultant with Brian Husen as crew chief. But there are still innovative ways to run the clutch.. "It's still a pretty big fight. Brandon Bernsteins income source is mostly from being a successful . As being the guy that was in charge of the tune-up on the car, I certainly felt like it was my fault. The guys will also discuss the news that Alan Johnson is joining Kalitta Motorsports for the 2022 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing season. Johnson did just that earlier this month at the NHRAs season-opening Circle K Winternationals at Pomona, California. AJPE and Johnson Racing had been using and selling Rodeck blocks for many years so with the announcement of John Rodecks retirement, it was a perfect match to bring the Rodeck manufacturing facility here to Santa Maria. We will update Brandon Bernstein's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible. It is vital that we maintain a welcoming environment where every individual has an equal opportunity to make an impactful contribution toward reaching our goals. 2013 also brought the addition of the new AJPE Lightweight Hemi block for the alcohol classes. Blake graduated from college the next year and was a finalist for NHRA's Rookie of the Year award. Its just one of those things, like an almost out of body experience. Alan Johnson has gone on to orchestrate 13 Top Fuel titles (with Gary Scelzi, Tony Schumacher, Larry Dixon, Del Worsham, Shawn Langdon, and Brittany Force). In previous conversations, there was never any indication this was coming down, Compton said. Johnson's presence paid quick dividends last week in Phoenix testing. Langdon started out the season with a win in the Winternationals, but since then it has been somewhat of an up-and-down campaign for the team, including seven first-round exits in eliminations of the 18 races held thus far. AJPE purchased a second Mazak 5-Axis Machining center for the block department to increase production capacity and versatility.During 2013 AJPE designed and introduced the Stage 3 481X cylinder head with Eric Dillard & Steve Petty at Proline Racing Engines. Without a sponsor, Alan Johnson Racing made the quickest run in NHRA history, a 3.70-second effort that made Langdon the No. After losing his ride for Morgan Lucas Racing in 2013, Brandon became Al-Anabi Racings general manager. But the truth is hes not even seeing you. As designedthe Stage 3 Muscle Head worked well with screw superchargers. These were available with 2.400/2.450 x 1.900 valve sizes. In so doing, the resulting back pressure put tremendous strain on the rear tire slicks of Johnsons Top Fuel dragster, causing both of them to explode. The most recent revision has reduced the minimum weight for Dodges by 75-pounds but that doesnt benefit Johnson. Right now, we're kind of relying on somebody that's got a passion for racing, wants to see us keep going and finds a way to squeeze it out of their budget to keep our team out there.". Were honored to share this vision and advance this program together with PNC Bank., Supporting women in traditionally male-dominated spaces, such as motorsports, tech, and finance, is important to us because we know that a diverse workforce sparks innovation and influences economic inclusion, Debbie Guild, PNC head of enterprise technology and security, said in a release. Bernstein attended Texas A&M University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in kinesiology, specializing in Sports Management in 1996. Behind the Numbers: How does Austin Procks new crew chief shake up Countdown chase? Just keep doing what we're doing, go out there and win races and catch the eye of somebody who wants to sponsor a Top Fuel car.". But hed give it all up if it meant Blaine was still here. Alan and Blaine moved up to NHRAs professional class of Top Fuel and AJPE purchased their first 5-Axis CNC machine, which allowed them to eliminate the inconsistencies of hand porting while keeping up with the volume of hemi heads needed to campaign a competitive Top Fuel Dragster. "Hopefully it catches somebody's attention. Blaine wasnt just any driver. It will jump out on you in a heartbeat and when you figure out how to get the car to hook, youre liable to do a big wheelstand. So, how much is Brandon Bernstein worth at the age of 50 years old? Obviously, theres a lot of stuff thats happened between then and now, but it sure doesnt seem like its been that long ago, no.. Johnson is considering shutting down one of the more successful teams in drag racing for the rest of the year if he can't find a sponsor for Top Fuel driver Shawn Langdon and Alan Johnson Racing. The two-month internship starts on May 29 and will see the interns travel with the team to select races during the 2023 NTT INDYCAR SERIES season. The nitro ranks will be changed in 2022 and NHRA's Silly Season is fully charged and roaring ahead, with announcements due to come as rapidly as eight cylinders on full song. Their differences might possibly make his job easier. Trading his 215-mph Pro Stock Dodge Dart for a Drag Pak Challenger. 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AJR has struggled with funding since its primary sponsor and benefactor, Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Thani and the Qatar Racing Club, suspended funding for Johnsons two-dragster Al-Anabi Racing team just four weeks before this years season-opening Circle K Winternationals. I dont have 75-pounds to take out of this car unless I want to spend a whole bunch of money buying carbon fiber parts. The team made the semifinals at Phoenix, maintained the points lead and headed into Sunday's elimination rounds in Gainesville as the top qualifier. The story of AJPE begins in Santa Maria California, a small farm town in Central California. His full-time crew is now his parents, Roy and Revonda, and his wife, Pam. In 2017, Johnson tuned Force to a second-place .841, just a thousandth behind Torrence who Johnson tuned to a class-leading .843 alongside Forces identical number. "I have to give them enough notice so they can get out there and find some work somewhere. He worked with his dad's racing team when he was a teenager. It's the end. I watched that the other day, somebody sent me that video, which I hadnt seen for probably 20 years, Alan Johnson said. However, the clear beneficiary was not Brittany Force, but rather Steve Torrence, the first driver to capitalize on Johnsons free agency last fall. Aint had time.. Thats what it takes and hes going to be a great driver.. Dixon's NHRA career began when he was a worker for a team owned by Larry Minor that had Gary Beck as driver. Also in 2013, Al Thani signed a five-year contract extension with Johnson. That would go a long way towards making it more even.. I think we should be able to all have the same supercharger. Blaine Johnson was a spectacular driver in the NHRAs Top Alcohol Dragster ranks, winning four straight championships (1990-93) and a then-record 26 races (which has since been surpassed). "I think the crew is handling it as well as anybody. Johnson doesnt seem conflicted at all about working with two distinct teams. With evident signs already of the crews re-dedication toward superior preparation and attention to detail, I am confident we can improve the entire teams performance and strive to get Brittany her first win very soon., Innovation happens when you realize that you have a problem to solve and you need new tools to do it with. AJR, together with Al-Anabi Racing took home the Top Fuel titles in 2010 (Larry Dixon), 2011 with Del Worsham and in Langdon's title season two years ago. Al-Anabi means Go Team Maroon!. Carrying the Mopar banner, he won seven times, tied for most with NHRA and class legend Bob Glidden, and advanced to a record 11 final rounds. Coming off a victory last weekend in the season-opening Winternationals in Pomona, California, Hight had a 3.838 at 332.18 in a Chevrolet Camaro. Alan Johnson. All we can show is what our team's capable of. Salinas began working with Johnson in some capacity when he returned to Top Fuel racing in 2017 and brought him on full time to begin the 2019 campaign. Both boys learned early on they could fix or build things that they didnt have access to or couldnt afford. 1 qualifier at the season-opening Winternationals in Pomona, Calif. Langdon went on to win the race. He is not dating anyone. So far, the Torrence performance gains are evident. Sadly, Blaine would never see all that future potential realized. Hein is an off-road racer and automotive service technician, while Goodman works as a laboratory instructor and Moody serves as a race engineer on her schools iRacing team. 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Regardless, the loss of Blaine was by far the biggest test to the Johnson familys determination and desire to continue racing in honor of Blaine and what he believed in. In April, he was in command of the points when he suffered a major accident at Englishtown that sidelined him for the remainder of the season. The program is aimed to provide more women with opportunities in traditionally male-dominated careers in the field of motorsports. During pre-season preparations, John Force was loitering near Alan Johnson, his newly-hired tuning consultant for daughter Brittany Forces Monster Energy Top Fuel Dragster. We've celebrated an NHRA world championship, captured wins at historic tracks like Gainesville, Pomona, and Bandimere, and basically lived our dream for 22 years. And thats no joke, regardless of whether Johnson gets it. MORE NHRA: Alan Johnson Racing moves forward withoutAl-Anabi. Torrence won the event from the No. They are running the new AJPE developed lightweight hemi block and Stage 3 Muscle Head engine combination. The inaugural Women In Motorsports internship class was a resounding success as interns explored their interests across motorsports and learned how a team of individuals works together to achieve their collective goals. June 2005 brought the acquisition of Rodeck Aluminum Blocks and four more CNC machines to the fleet. Unfortunately, it could be the end. Getting a handle on that little tire is the biggest challenge we face, Johnson said. The announcement left Johnson in a huge bind a little more than a month before the season opener. AJPE is in its second year of sponsoring Mike and Doug Gordons Morro Bay Cabinets Alcohol Funny Car in NHRA. Say "see ya" to NHRA Top Fuel 2013 champions Alan Johnson Racing (AJR) and driver Shawn Langdon, who are shuttering operations due to lack of funding. Alan Johnson is the kingmaker when it comes to making power, and Doug Kalitta is a legendary driver. Copyright 1996-2023, NHRA. With a total re-design and utilizing the new Mazak 5-Axis machine center, AJPE was able to reduce the block weight by 15 pounds over previous versions. A 15-time NHRA champion as an owner and crew chief, Johnson is treating this weekend's. When AJ found out were going to be teammates https://t.co/AGwRXbtW9l https://t.co/4zAUzdHsjq, 2023 Alan Johnson Performance Engineering, Innovative High-Performance Race Engine Components. Weve always used AJPE [Alan Johnson Performance Engineering] parts and have a long-standing relationship with Alan. These primary features propelled the 481X to the top of the Chevrolet wedge style engine package. 1980s and 1990s. They're around here thinking we're going to get something and they want to be part of it. The reason Im out there is to win a championship, Johnson said. 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