Career Highlights:

Career Wins: 43
Career Best Elapsed Time: 4.041 seconds
Career Best Speed: 331.28 mph

Birthdate: March 8, 1965
Hometown: Torrance, Calif.
Resides: Indianapolis, Ind.
Family: Wife–Andrea, Kids–Cecily, Arielle, Desidario and Benecio

Two-time NHRA Funny Car World Champion Tony Pedregon returns in 2010 as the owner/driver of the Quaker State^® Funny Car.

Historically, owner/drivers have had mixed results in most forms of motorsports, but Pedregon has been the exception rather than the rule. In 2004, his first year as an owner/driver, he scored numerous career bests and has never looked back.

He ranks second in the all-time Funny Car win list behind John Force.

His hobbies are spending time at home with family, going outdoors/bike-riding, tennis, and playing blackjack and poker.

2009:
Won three of eight final rounds (Chicago, Englishtown, Brainerd); runner-up at Gainesville, Bristol, Seattle, Sonoma and Memphis. Posted No. 1 qualifers in Las Vegas 1, Chicago and Seattle. Finished sixth place in final points standings.

2008:
Won Gainesville; won Chicago; won Norwalk; won Brainerd; runner-up at Dallas; No. 1 Qualifier at two events; finished 5th in POWERade points standings.

2007:
NHRA World Funny Car Champion; won Las Vegas; won Dallas; won Reading; runner-up at Englishtown; won Phoenix where he set the national record and career-best elapsed time of 4.659 seconds.

2006:
Picked up three wins in a stretch of six events to move from 12th to 4th in the POWERade points standings; moved all the way up to 3rd in standings as late as the 17th event of the season; qualified in the Top 10 at 19 of 23 events; qualified for 22 of 23 events; extended streak of successfully qualifying for an event to 114 events; finished 5th in POWERade points standings.

2005:
Set career best for time when he and his brother (Cruz) each ran 4.680s at Chicago 2; finished the season on a roll with two wins and a runner-up finish at the final five events; earned his first victory since Las Vegas 2 in his Championship season of 2003; qualified for all 23 events, increasing his streak of successfully qualifying at national events to 110; earned three No. 1 qualifiers and had the low E.T. at three events.

2004:
In his first season as a team owner, he finished No. 8 in the final POWERade points standings, his 9th consecutive season finishing in the top 10; established career bests for both E.T. and speed; career-best E.T. is the 7th quickest Funny Car pass in NHRA history; recorded two of the 10 fastest Funny Car speeds in NHRA history (331.28 mph at Chicago 1; 329.83 mph at Atlanta); his career won-lost record in elimination rounds of 319-189 is 13th best among active pro drivers with 50 or more decisions; qualified #1 at three events - Las Vegas 1, Atlanta and Chicago 1; qualified for all 23 events, upping his national event qualifying streak to 87 consecutive races dating back to Bristol 2001, 5th best among active pro drivers.

2003:
Nominated for ESPY Driver Award; became the first driver other than John Force to win the Funny Car championship since 1992; established career bests for wins, No. 1 qualifying awards, elapsed time and speed; a career-best 8 wins on the season places him 4th on the all-time Funny Car win list with 24 career victories; one of four Funny Car drivers to qualify for all 23 events.

2002:
Earned six victories in eight final-round appearances. Was contending for the POWERade championship until the semifinal of the last event of the season; finished No. 2 in the standings for the fourth time in his career; finished in the top five of the standings for the sixth time in eight professional seasons; won three consecutive races for the first time in his career.

2001:
Won a race as the No. 1 qualifier (Englishtown) for the first time in his career, beating team owner John Force; won back-to-back races (Englishtown and Topeka) for the first time in his career.

2000:
Went to the finals six times, collecting two victories.

1999:
Was the No. 1 qualifier at four events; posted the quickest time in history when he clocked a 4.779 second run at Gainesville; runner-up in the Funny Car Shootout at Indianapolis.

1998:
Earned two wins in two final-round appearances.

1997:
No. 1 qualifier at three events and raced in five finals; beat brother Cruz Pedregon at Houston in the first final-round meeting involving brothers; runner-up in Funny Car bonus race.

1996:
Made seven final-round appearances in first season with John Force Racing; named the inaugural winner of the Automobile Club of Southern California Road to the Future Award, which identified the sport's budding stars; finished second in driver points in first full season on the tour; earned first career victory (Atlanta).

1995:
Ran limited Funny Car schedule for car owner Larry Minor.

1993:
Qualified for first NHRA event at the wheel of a Top Fuel dragster.

Father, Frank, raced Top Fuel dragsters in the 1960s.

Brothers Cruz and Frank Pedregon also compete in the Funny Car class.

Pedregon is an accomplished painter whose work adorns the helmets of fellow drivers John Force, Cory McClenathan, Cruz Pedregon and others.