NHRA - National Hot Rod Association

Mike Green is the crew chief of the U.S. Army dragster driven by Tony Schumacher. The veteran Top Fuel tuner has been in that role since the 2009 season. He guided Schumacher to his seventh and eighth Mello Yello titles in 2009 and 2014.

Green grew up in Sacramento, Calif., and got involved with several Top Alcohol Dragster teams before joining Darrell Gwynn’s Top Fuel team in 1987. That led to him working with Lee Beard during the late Gary Ormsby’s 1989 championship season. He later worked for Major League Baseball player Jack Clark, Larry Minor, and NFL Hall of Famer Joe Gibbs. With Gibbs, Green had tremendous success as crew chief for Cory McClenathan on a team that swept the 1997 Western Swing and won 11 races between the Denver events in 1997 and 1998. Several crewmembers on that team went on to become crew chiefs themselves, including Mike Neff, Dickie Venables, Brian Husen, and Joe Barlam.

Green spent five seasons as a Funny Car crew chief at Don Prudhomme’s Snake Racing, between 2003 and 2007, tuning for Tommy Johnson Jr. before he joined Don Schumacher Racing. After one season of tuning the Fram dragster driven by McClenathan, he took on the monumental task of replacing Alan Johnson as crew chief on the U.S. Army dragster the next season following Johnson’s departure. Green has since stood tall in the white-hot spotlight and exuded quiet confidence while leading a perennial championship-contending operation.

Green's leadership role extends to the massive eight-car DSR operation based in Brownsburg, Ind. He has spearheaded several projects relating to both performance and safety that have benefited the entire team, most notably the use of the canopy-style cockpit in Top Fuel.