top fuel / alan johnson
funny car / austin coil
pro stock / greg anderson

Up and Comers: Dickie Venables has shown flashes with TPed. I had higher hopes for Brian Corradi after his stints with Skuza and Frankie.

But all discussion of crew chiefs starts and stops with Austin Coil.

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T/F -- Alan Johnson, Dick Lahaie, Tim Richards, Rahn Tobhler, Lee Beard

F/C -- Austin Coil, Ed Mculloch, Mike Neff, Jimmy Prock, John Medlen

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Active:
Austin/Bernie/Jimmy/John The Force Brain Trust
AJ/Ace/Zippy The DSR Brain Trust
Beard
The Brothers O and Rahn Team K Brain Trust
Dickie V
Kim and the General
Big Jim Dunn (those guys are gonna be grizzly now that they got money: quote from Force Fall 1993)

Retired:
Dick L
TC Lemons
Waterbed Fred
Double A Dale
Don "mumbles" Cook (gotta say that)
Papa Joe

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On a Good Track: Prock

On a Slick Track: Ace

1. Austin Coil
2. Alan Johnson
The best of the rest in no particular order, but Jimmy Prock will one day be in the same league as the top two.
* Dick Lahaie
* Tim Richards
* Jimmy Prock
* Rahn Tobler
* Federly
* Medlen
* Beard
* Neff
* Ace

Oh yeah, Warren Johnson is the man!!! Especially when he has Kurt's tune-up.

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How about some respect for Richard Hogan... Though that is AJ power, he is still leading Melanie to the points leader.

My personal favorites are Terry Manzer (of course), Paul Smith, John Stewart and Larry Meyer. All of them are able to get good consistent performance without hurting a lot of parts.

Ken

1) Coil (you can't ingnore his record)
2) Alan Johnson
3) Medlen/ Federly
4) Tim Richards
5) Mike Neff/ Jimmy Prock
6) Lee Beard/ Wes Cerny
7) Ed "Ace" M.

Were there are two names I consider them equally talented.

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After reading all of your favorites, I am feeling quite blessed to have a direct connection to Rahn Tobler and an indirect connection to Austin and Richard Hogan through Dave Settles (he should be on the list as well). I have learned so much from these guys my head hurts. Give me and our guys a little more time and look out!!!!

Dang... I forgot Mr. Hogan
And Yeah, I cheer for Everyone that lives in the Madison Vally (Ennis)
Guess you can say that's were my family's roots are.

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I have to disagree, John Stewart has been blowing up S**t like crazy this year.

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My thoughts exactly Justin,but I am pretty biased.

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Unless I missed it, and I don't think I did, nobody mentioned Big. Maybe he doesn't fall directly under the "Crew Chief" title, but he isn't ranked #1 on the NHRA list for nothing. He's the reason we have rear-engine dragsters, he is (was) arguably the greatest innovator the sport ever knew, and he designed and built most, if not all of his own chassis... Granted, he had help, but for the most part the ideas were his. He was The Man, no doubt about it.

I'm not taking anything away from any of the people mentioned thus far - Austin Coil & Alan Johnson are absolutely brilliant, and Mike Neff, Jimmy Prock, Ace, Dick Lahaie, Dickie Venables, etc. are all awesome too - I just think a little love needs to be thrown Big's way... no?

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Mike Green is very under-rated. The Skoal Blue Chevy was the only single car team in the top 10 last year. They're also the only single car team there now. Kudos to Mike!

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