Frank Hawley

Frank Hawley is a two-time World champion drag racing driver. He won seven National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Funny Car and two Top Fuel Dragster national events during his 10-year Top fuel racing career that included the 1982 and 1983 National Hot Rod Association Funny Car World Championship, when he drove the Chi-Town Hustler for Austin Coil. He was voted Car Craft magazine's "Driver of the Year".

Frank also served as a television sports commentator for ABC, TNN, and ESPN and authored two books on the sport of drag racing. He was inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame in 1995 and ranked number 43 on the National Hot Rod Association Top 50 Drivers, 1951–2000.

In 1985, Frank founded the world's first school for drag race driver's training, Frank Hawley's Drag Racing School. With him as the lead instructor, the school offers classes all across the U.S. where drivers can earn their NHRA competition license. Some of the classes offered include Super Comp, Super Gas, Top Dragster, Top Sportsman, Top Alcohol Dragster, Top Alcohol Funny Car, Pro Stock Bike, as well as courses for those to license and train with Frank in their own car.