This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Shirley Muldowney" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(March 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Shirley Muldowney
Muldowney signing autographs in July 2017 at the Automobile Driving Museum
Born
Shirley Ann Roque (1940-06-19) June 19, 1940 (age 83) Burlington, Vermont
Debut season
1958
Previous series
NHRA, Top Fuel
Championship titles
Top Fuel 1977, 1980, 1982
Awards
1990 2001 2004
Motorsports Hall of Fame of America[1] NHRA Top 50 Drivers of 1951–2000 International Motor Sports Hall of Fame
Shirley Muldowney (born June 19, 1940), also known professionally as "Cha Cha" and the "First Lady of Drag Racing", is an American auto racer. She was the first woman to receive a license from the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) to drive a Top Fuel dragster. She won the NHRA Top Fuel championship in 1977, 1980, and 1982, becoming the first person to win two and three Top Fuel titles.[2][3] She won a total of 18 NHRA national events.
^Shirley Muldowney at the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America
^Phil Burgess. "No. 5, Shirley Muldowney". nhraonline.com. Archived from the original on January 23, 2004. Retrieved December 19, 2009.
^Lowe, Jaime (July 7, 2005). "Where Are They Now? Shirley Muldowney". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved December 19, 2009.
ShirleyMuldowney (born June 19, 1940), also known professionally as "Cha Cha" and the "First Lady of Drag Racing", is an American auto racer. She was...
for her starring role in Heart Like a Wheel (1983), as drag racer ShirleyMuldowney. Other well-known performances include her portrayals of Holly Gennero...
which are now held at Maryland International Raceway. Richard Petty, ShirleyMuldowney, Don Prudhomme, Bunny Burkett are among some of the great drag racers...
Representatives from Pennsylvania ShirleyMuldowney (born 1940), pioneer in professional auto racing Suzanne Muldowney (born 1952), performance artist best...
category is also the most associated female in the drag racing world, ShirleyMuldowney, who won three championships during her career.[citation needed] Since...
the second woman in history to win a Top Fuel Championship, after ShirleyMuldowney in 1982, clinching the title in the quarterfinals of the final race...
series include "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, Don "The Snake" Prudhomme, and ShirleyMuldowney. Those three gained much attention from the 1960s through 1970s with...
retirement as a professional drag racer. Along with Erica Enders, ShirleyMuldowney, Brittany Force, and Christina Nielsen, Sampey is one of a very few...
other female inductees were multiple NHRA Top Fuel dragster champion ShirleyMuldowney in 2004, and Janet Guthrie, who was inducted two years later. Wendell...
His company, Ed Pink Racing Engines, supplied top racers, including ShirleyMuldowney, Don Prudhomme, Gas Ronda, Dale Emery, Guy Tipton, Mike Burkhart,...
scored her 19th career win, surpassing a record previously held by ShirleyMuldowney in Top Fuel for the most NHRA national event wins by a female driver...
in 1990 became the third woman to win a NHRA Top Fuel event after ShirleyMuldowney (1976) and Lucille Lee (1982). Johns was born in Corpus Christi, Texas...
that ran in the middle of the track's infield. ShirleyMuldowney debuted on the drag strip. Muldowney described the drag strip: "That strip was deadly...
Heart Like a Wheel 1983 Biographical Drag racing Based on the life of ShirleyMuldowney, played by Bonnie Bedelia. Stroker Ace 1983 Comedy Stock car Burt...
sanctioned event – the 1964 NHRA U.S. Nationals. Kalitta teamed up with ShirleyMuldowney as the Bounty Hunter and Bounty Huntress, in a pair of Ford Mustangs...
woman to win a national title in a professional class, following ShirleyMuldowney. Burkett was one of only a small number of women drag racing in professional...
distinguish it from the web color hot pink (shown above). NHRA drag racer ShirleyMuldowney was famous for driving a shocking pink dragster.[citation needed]...
Like a Wheel Shirley's sister Biographical film directed by Jonathan Kaplan and based on the life of drag racing driver ShirleyMuldowney. 1986 Ratboy...
championship setting a then world record.[citation needed] In 1973, ShirleyMuldowney teamed up with Connie Kalitta as the Bounty Hunter and Bounty Huntress...
utilised for drag racing. NHRA exhibitions were run in 1989, and in 1993 ShirleyMuldowney ran a 5.30 on the quarter-mile strip at Fuji. Local drag races are...
Arfons, Sydney Allard, Zora Arkus-Duntov, Ray Godman, Raymond Beadle, ShirleyMuldowney, Kenny Bernstein, Don Schumacher, and Connie Glen Swingle. Don Garlits...
Global Information
