Pat Austin is an American former drag racer. He competed in the National Hot Rod Association. He won four NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car championships between 1987 and 1991. He was the first driver to win
Joe Amato is an American dragster driver, who won the National Hot Rod Association's Top Fuel championship on five occasions and scored 52 event victories, most of them with crew chief Tim Richards. H
Pat Austin
…win came two events later at Topeka. He won the Alcohol Funny Car finals over Chuck Cheeseman with a 5.97 second pass and the Top Fuel finals over Joe Amato with a 4.97 second pass. Austin avenged his final round Top Fuel loss to Bernstein at the Winston Finals at Pomona and started the 1992 season by winning…
Amato relaxing in his pit area as an owner at the 2001 Southern Nationals at Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Georgia, 2001
Amato after winning the 1979 Gatornationals
Amato dragster doing a burnout at the Mile High Nationals in the Denver