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Matt Hagan, Erica Enders gunning for 50th career victories at Arizona Nationals

Matt Hagan and Erica Enders each need just one win to become the 17th pro driver with 50 tour victories and, obviously, we could get Nos. 17 and 18 within a few minutes of one another at the NHRA Arizona Nationals.
06 Apr 2024
Phil Burgess, NHRA National Dragster Editor
Feature
50 wins

Matt Hagan and Erica Enders each need just one win to become the 17th pro driver with 50 tour victories and, obviously, we could get Nos. 17 and 18 within a few minutes of one another at the NHRA Arizona Nationals.

In Funny Car, Force, Robert Hight, and Ron Capps currently are the only Funny Car drivers to have reached that plateau. Hagan has won at least three tour events for 11 consecutive seasons, the longest active streak in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series.

Enders would become the sixth Pro Stock driver to do it after Bob Glidden, Warren Johnson, Greg Anderson, Jeg Coughlin Jr., and Jason Line.

Here's the order of reaching 50 Pro wins:

1.

Bob Glidden

Pro Stock

1986 Dallas

2.

Warren Johnson

Pro Stock

1995 Seattle

3.

John Force

Funny Car

1996 Gainesville

4.

Kenny Bernstein

Funny Car/Top Fuel

1998 Chicago

5

Joe Amato

Top Fuel

1999 Reading

6.

Greg Anderson 

Pro Stock

2007 Sonoma

7.

Tony Schumacher

Top Fuel

2008 Brainerd

8.

Larry Dixon

Top Fuel

2010 Pomona 1

9.

Jeg Coughlin

Pro Stock

2010 Atlanta

10.

Antron Brown

Top Fuel/Pro Stock Motorcycle

2015 Englishtown

11.

Ron Capps

Funny Car/Top Fuel

2016 Seattle

12.

Andrew Hines

Pro Stock Motorcycle

2019 Charlotte 1

13.

Robert Hight

Funny Car

2019 Sonoma

14.

Jason Line

Pro Stock

2019 Reading

15.

Steve Torrence

Top Fuel

2021 Las Vegas 2

16.

Doug Kalitta

Top Fuel

2023 Reading

It's worth noting that these marks reflect only the count to 50 professional-class wins. Amato reached 50 combined wins (Top Alcohol Dragster and Top Fuel) in Memphis in 1998; Coughlin reached 50 total wins (Pro and Sportsman) in Bristol in 2007; Line hit 50 combined wins (Stock and Pro Stock) at the fall Charlotte event in 2018; and Torrence reached 50 combined wins (Top Fuel and Top Alcohol Dragster) in Sonoma of 2021.