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frank bradley - as darr mentions in his sonoma piece on DRO, the beard
is only member 4 and 5 sec. club - then onto great years as crew chief
for others - crewing numerous drivers over 300mph when that was still
a big deal

also i think first with 300" fueler?
 
As a relative newbie in the modern era I choose the obvious Alan Johnson. Crew Chief of 2 (what would have been 3) pro champions, Blaine, Gary, and Tony. From what I hear he has brought lots of innovation to the fuel ranks.

Honorable mention to other flashes of brilliance shown by Dick LaHaie those few years where him and Larry Dixon just dominated every race, and his work on Scott K's car mid 90's.
 
Taking nothing away from the current crop of Crew Chiefs... the "Hawaiian", Roland Leong would be my pick and Roland is still doing it in Nostalgia Funny Car! ;)
 
Pretty hard to call this one. I can't do it.

How can you count out Dale Armstrong??? The advance of the lock up clutch system alone gives him a few extra points in my book, let alone everything else he did.

Tim Richards?? first to 260, 280, 5 championships for Joe, and 1 for Kenny

Big Daddy?? Heck he built his cars with his own hands from the ground up, and was crew chief, and the driver.

AJ and Coil are right up there as people have said above.
 
I have a hard time with any 'best ever' list.

What's the criteria? Wins, longevity w/success, old school, new school. There's a very long list of bad as$, successful crew chiefs. I just don't see how you can eliminate all but one. And that goes with just about any competition.
 
Sadly, if Dave D. is involved - you can pretty much be assured that nobody from the drag racing world will be mentioned.
 
Why don't we start a listing of who would be in your Crew Chief "hall of fame" instead of just who is the best "one"...there are just too many great ones to pick a single individual:)
 
I think there are to many to mention! But you would have to go with Championships which would be Austin Coil, Tim Richards, Alan Johnson, Dick Lahaie and Dale Armstrong to name a few. :rolleyes:
I don't know about you but that would be hard to pick.
I would tend to pick the ones who won championships before computers made it to the scene, were they had to make the calls from the conditions they had to race in, back in the day.
 
I would have to say that AJ and Coil are the 2 greatest c/c's of all time. To me, they stand above everyone else. There are a bunch of great c/c's and a ton of good c/c's.
 
“Who is the greatest crew chief of all time and why?”

This is not limited to NASCAR or for that matter to series that use the term ‘crew chief.’ The question embraces chief mechanic, head wrench, master technician, etc. So, who’s the greatest crew chief of all time and why?

I voted for Bob Glidden. Not only did he drive his record setting Pro Stocks. He also built and tuned them!!!
 
I should have mentioned this is crew chief in any form of motor sports.

My reasoning for Coil was...

Championships (16 including 10 straight, and in 3 different decades 80/90/00's) round wins (1000+), consecutive starts without a DNQ (395), race wins (126) not the most ever (Petty 200) but a lot, only FC crew chief to sweep the swing, +/-40 years being a dominant crew chief. Not to mention all the match racing (96 in 1970 alone).

These were just the easy stats to come up with and most don't take into account all the race/round wins with the Chi-Town Hustler or his contributions to all of the current/past force teams and to Tony Pedregons first championship.

Alan Johnson is great and if he keeps it up in another 20 years he may be as accomplished as Coil is today.
 
My vote is for Coil!!!!! Besides being a great crew chief, he should get kudos for puttin' up with Force as long as he has!!!!!!:D
 
I say AJ. Not only because of his pro record, but his Top Alcohol days were not too shabby either.
Then...there is the Santa Maria Forth of July 'SPECTACULARRR' :) i wanna see that some day.
 
Don Garlits because he built, tuned & did everything on his own. He was a true innovator of drag racing. Never afraid to get his hands dirty like the "crew chiefs" of today.
 
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Don Garlits because he built, tuned & did everything on his own. He was a true innovator of drag racing. Never afraid to get his hands dirty like the "crew chiefs" of today.
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+ 1.
He also did it without computers and back in the day when we did not have superhighways, or big rigs. Just a station wagon and trailer. There was no I-10 from Fl to LA when he made the trips out west.
 
You really can't count championships due to the fact that there are twice as many races tody as there were back in the 60's and 70's.
this should be all around crew chief not just a computer monkey.
if crew chiefs today didn't have computers I wonder just how good they would be??
my vote is Big Daddy, no question about it.
Austin Coil next as he tuned and won w/o a computer but Bob Glidden should be in the mix as well.
Oh yea Warren Johnson. He didn't get to be "the professor" for nothing.
 
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