Shirley muldowney biography book

NHRA champion, drag racing pioneer

Shirley Muldowney (born June 19, 1940), also known professionally as "Cha Cha" and the "First Lady of Drag Racing", is an American auto racer. She was the first woman to receive a license from the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) to drive a Top Fueldragster.

She won the NHRA Top Fuel championship in 1977, 1980, and 1982, becoming the first person to win two and three Top Fuel titles.^[2][3] She won a total of 18 NHRA national events.

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Racing career

Born Shirley Ann Roque in Burlington, Vermont, on June 19, 1940,^[4] Muldowney began street racing in the 1950s in Schenectady, New York. "School had no appeal to me. All I wanted was to race up and down the streets in a hot rod," declared Muldowney.^[3] When she was 16, she married 19-year-old Jack Muldowney,^[5] who built her first dragster.

It was Jack Muldowney who first taught me how to drive a car. Jack was the