Vote for Your Crew Chief

[90-percent]

i voted for Garlits.

However, I would think they would pick a guy like Smokey Yunick or Jim Hall because of all their innovations?

But I'm illiterate on all motorsports that aren't drag racing......

-90% Jimmy

 

[Speed1288]

Top CC of all time
1.) Austin Coil- 120+ NHRA wins 13+NHRA titles and from match race era to this era still the king
2.) Ross Brawn- Dominated with Michael Schumacher, Just bought team and is winning WDC and WCC with limited budget and resources
3.) Don Garlits- 3 NHRA titles, countless speed records and IHRA and AHRA titles

 

[JHOLE]

No way that you can nail this down.

But, I'm going with Mr. Garlits and Mr. Armstrong if I have to bring it down to the smartest dudes in the sport, overall, period. Abunch of these new guys would be racing bicycles if it weren't for Mr. Garlits. And they'de be racing to a half mile, to get the speeds up, if it weren't for Mr. armstrong

 

[Bullard Anderson]

Coolness .... Roland

 

[Muddy]

Although they were mostly engine builders you can't exclude guys like Keith Black, Donovan, Pink, Waterman, Zushel and Milidon enginering. They didn't get to be great engine builders by never tuning or racing. What Dale Armstrong did with the clutch and computer changed the face of drag racing. So did Big and Connie Kalitta. The list just goes on and on.

 

[yoda]

This guy right here:

 

[club]

Top CC of all time
1.) Austin Coil- 120+ NHRA wins 13+NHRA titles and from match race era to this era still the king
2.) Ross Brawn- Dominated with Michael Schumacher, Just bought team and is winning WDC and WCC with limited budget and resources
3.) Don Garlits- 3 NHRA titles, countless speed records and IHRA and AHRA titles

Ken, I like you pick especially Brawn. He has accomplished a lot and this years so far is really impressive. But the pack is hot on his heals.

 

[Speed1288]

Ken, I like you pick especially Brawn. He has accomplished a lot and this years so far is really impressive. But the pack is hot on his heals.

Yea they are, They had such a head start on everyone by starting on the new regulations halway through last year that everyones just catching up now. Still think its Jenson and Brawns WDC/WCC to lose.

 

[Z28LT1]

A lot of great names thrown out there and I agree with every one! The only name I see missing from all of this is Dick LaHaie. He had a championship as a driver in 87, two with Scott Kalitta in 94 & 95, and two with Snake and Dixon in 02 and 03. 5 championships in 15 years is pretty dominate over that period of time. These are the threads I love!

 

[Greg]

A lot of great names thrown out there and I agree with every one! The only name I see missing from all of this is Dick LaHaie. He had a championship as a driver in 87, two with Scott Kalitta in 94 & 95, and two with Snake and Dixon in 02 and 03. 5 championships in 15 years is pretty dominate over that period of time. These are the threads I love!

Dick Lahaie ...post #3

 

[Paul]

The winners were some Smokey guy and Austin Coil.

 

[Z28LT1]

dick lahaie ...post #3

doh!

 

[Speed1288]

Depends on the criteria really,

If your going on pure numbers, Austin Coil hands down

If your going for innovation and forward thinking, Its Garlits followed by Armstrong

 

[n/a]

Smokey Yunick.

 

[Paul]

Smokey Yunick.

That's the guy, he and Austin were ranked the 2 greatest of all time.

 

[AAFA-Freak]

I vote for anybody ever to present a car at Indy in 100 years so many back in the day.
Who engineered the STP turbine car?

Smokey was a genius
Coil and Armstrong are also Medlin is great also he just never grabbed spot light.
The days of glory in the 60 and 70's many many many guys tried the Juice and were never the same again.
They all were great in my eyes.

a lot of the ideas happen when they guys start talking and some unknown says hey have you tried or noticed or we think.

 

[I was NITRO BREATH]

Coil and then BIG then Armstrong then La Haie then AJ then Glidden then WJ then........................................................

 

[qtermile14]

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.
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Dale was also instrumental in bringing what is now known as the Racepak data recorder to drag racing.

 

[qtermile14]

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.

Depends on the criteria really,

If your going on pure numbers, Austin Coil hands down

If your going for innovation and forward thinking, Its Garlits followed by Armstrong

Dale was also instrumental in bringing what is now known as the Racepak data recorder to drag racing.

You have to look at it over all. When Dale brought in the Racepak data recorder, he saw that the clutch was still slipping at the top end. With that data he then developed the lockup clutch. With out these two innovations, we may be at a different level of performance now.

 

[JHOLE]

You have to look at it over all. When Dale brought in the Racepak data recorder, he saw that the clutch was still slipping at the top end. With that data he then developed the lockup clutch. With out these two innovations, we may be at a different level of performance now.

Yep.

You gotta ask yourself - what are all these "crew chiefs" tuning? Where did it come from? Who laid the groundwork for them? Who came up with it on their own - without factory insight? Who made the sport jump? Who made these other dudes look like fools until they caught up?

I still say Mr. Garlits and Mr Armstrong.... that's just me.

If the question was - "who can get/sell a better sponsor" - I would have never responded to the thread...That's racin' now, but, it aint racing as far as I'm concerned.

I'll go back to lurking now...