2012 NHRA Funny Car World Champion
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Jack Beckman wins the 300th Funny Car Wally for John Force Racing
Mar 30, 2025 – In Funny Car, Jack Beckman handed John Force Racing its 300th Funny Car win after he went 4.015 at 302.88 in his 11,000-horsepower PEAK Chevrolet Camaro SS to knock off Daniel Wilkerson in a historic championship round at the legendary facility – and the home track for JFR. It is the 38th career win for Beckman, who replaced Force after his crash last year and has won the last two races in Pomona.
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JACK Beckman
Jack Beckman used the break in racing action to offer a master’s class on drag racing’s early years: 1950-1959. These TED-talk-like lectures will continue to cover the early-’60s, but for those who may have missed them we present them in one easy to find location.
THE EL CAMINO RESTORATION
The story of “Fast Jack” and his El Camino goes all the way back to a baseball-playing, skateboarding, skinny kid from California’s San Fernando Valley in the early 1980s. Hooked on drag racing at age 7 while hanging on the fence at historic digs like Orange County International Raceway, and later the high-desert LACR, Jack saw a fuzzy vision of what he could become if it was in the cards. But first, he had to toil and suffer.