![]() Bernstein won his first Funny Car championship in 1985, and successfully defended his title over the next three seasons. The following year, he acquired a sponsorship deal from Anheuser-Busch (with its Budweiser brand), which lasted for thirty years until the new owner of Anheuser-Busch, InBev, elected not to renew his contract. He first became a full-time professional Funny Car driver in 1979. Drag racing career Īt the 1978 NHRA Summernationals at Englishtown, Bernstein drove the Chelsea Kingfunny car. He drove throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee in a Cadillac. He did not have enough money, so he became a traveling salesman for Whistle Stop (a clothing line for teenage girls). Bernstein was attending the Arlington State College (now University of Texas at Arlington) in 1966 for business administration when he decided to quit to become a drag racer. Early life īernstein attended Monterey High School in Lubbock, Texas he played on the high school's football team. With the exception of a brief return to Funny Car in 2006, Bernstein did not return to the car and instead continued to run his team until the end of the 2011 season when he left drag racing altogether. Bernstein retired from full-time competition in 2002 and moved his son Brandon into the Bud King Top Fuel dragster, but returned to finish the season in place of his son after Brandon suffered a severe injury. Bernstein owned King Racing, which he drove for in the NHRA and fielded various cars in other racing series such as Ind圜ar and NASCAR. He has also been nicknamed ' The King of Speed,' because he was the first driver to break 300 miles per hour in the standing-start quarter mile. ![]() He is nicknamed the 'Bud King' for his success in the Budweiser King funny car and dragster. Kenny Bernstein (born September 6, 1944) is an American drag racer and former NASCAR and Ind圜ar team owner. ![]() Bernstein's 1987 Funny Car, which had just set the record for the first elapsed time below 5.4 seconds ![]()
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