{"id":8158,"date":"2014-09-25T16:59:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T23:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=8158"},"modified":"2015-11-11T10:06:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T18:06:47","slug":"kenny-bernstein-the-king-of-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/kenny-bernstein-the-king-of-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Bernstein: The King of Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On March 22,1992 at the Motorcraft Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway, Kenny Bernstein became the first driver to break 300 miles per hour with a speed of 301.7 becoming the King of Speed. Photo courtesy NHRA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speed is the ultimate goal of drag racing, going faster than the driver in the other lane for just a few brief seconds. There have always been arbitrary goals along the way and speeds that once upon a time seemed impossible are now regularly hit and surpassed. But one fine day back in 1992, Kenny Bernstein was the fastest ever.<\/p>\n

Along the way, all the race teams were striving to break the 300 mile per hour barrier. The NHRA was even offering a $50,000 bonus to the team that made it there first. At the 1992 Motorcraft Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway Kenny Bernstein\u2019s King Budweiser team got the job done. Throwing down a 301.7 mph run in a short 4.82 seconds in Friday qualifying, the barrier was shattered. Kenny Bernstein, earning the nickname King of Speed, still counts this as one of his greatest racing achievements in a long list of them.<\/p>\n

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On March 22,1992 at the Motorcraft Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway, Kenny Bernstein became the first driver to break 300 miles per hour with a speed of 301.7 becoming the King of Speed.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":8159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3447,3465,3470,3399],"tags":[687,1355,1356,7,1338,663],"class_list":["post-8158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic","category-drag-racing","category-news","category-nhra","tag-classic-cars","tag-kenny-bernstein","tag-king-budweiser","tag-nhra","tag-the-classic-corner","tag-throwback-thursday","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/BernsteinKenny-1992Racing300mph.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-27A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20842,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions\/20842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}