Frank Hawley is a two-time World champion drag racing

Drag racing

Drag racing is a competition in which specially prepared automobiles or motorcycles compete two at a time to be the first to cross a set finish line, from a standing start, in a straight line, over a measured distance, most commonly a ¼-mile straight track....

 driver. He won seven National Hot Rod Association

National Hot Rod Association

The National Hot Rod Association is a drag racing governing body, which sets rules in drag racing and host events all over the United States and Canada...

 (NHRA) Funny Car

Funny Car

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 and two Top Fuel Dragster national events during his 10-year Top fuel

Top Fuel

Top Fuel racing is a class of drag racing in which the cars are run on a mix of approximately 90% nitromethane and 10% methanol rather than gasoline or simply methanol. The cars are purpose-built for drag racing, with an exaggerated layout that in some ways resembles open-wheel circuit racing...

 racing career that included the 1982 and 1983 National Hot Rod Association

National Hot Rod Association

The National Hot Rod Association is a drag racing governing body, which sets rules in drag racing and host events all over the United States and Canada...

 Funny Car World Championship. He was voted Car Craft

Car Craft

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magazine's "Driver of the year".

Frank Hawley also served as a television

Television

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 sports commentator

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 for ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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, TNN

TNN Motor Sports/TNN Sports

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, and ESPN

ESPN

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 and authored two books on the sport of drag racing. Inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame

Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame

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in 1995, on the National Hot Rod Association Top 50 Drivers, 1951-2000, Hawley was ranked No.43.

In 1985 he founded Frank Hawley's Drag Racing School, the Official School of the NHRA.