Biography......
.In the Beginning….
 Peter Biondo was born in 1971 in Queens, New York.
While growing up, playing hockey in local leagues around the
neighborhood was how Peter spent a lot of his afternoons. On
the weekends, Peter would go with his family to the drag races.
It didn't take him long to figure out that drag racing was his
passion.
Like any sport, drag
racing gets in family bloodlines and passes down from one generation
to the next. The Biondo family
is a prime example of this. In the late 1960's Peter's father,
Sam, competed regularly at the dragstrips. Since then Sam has
won 8 track championships in the super pro ranks. Peter's older
brother, Sal was the next to take the wheel. In 1984 Sal began
competing and shortly thereafter Peter started his racing career.
"My 16th birthday couldn't come soon enough, I've been watching
my father since I was 2 years old and I was eager to take a shot
at it!"
 It
was 1987 when Peter started racing in nothing other than with
the family station wagon in the entry level class. Peter and
his family spent many weekends traveling together to racetracks
in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. According to Peter it was time
well spent. "Sal and I would alternate driving the station
wagon and we would watch my father compete in super pro. It kept
us together on the weekends and was a lot of fun. I just knew
it was something I wanted to be involved with for a long time."
Peter finished his
education at St. Johns University with a bachelors degree in
business management
and a 3.2 GPA. Within those 4 years Peter was competing at the
local bracket tracks and enjoyed a great deal of success, winning
3 consecutive super pro track championships at local tracks in
New Jersey. It was then that he realized that he didn't just
want to drag race as a hobby,
he wanted to make it a way of life.
Major Accomplishements.....
Peter's first World
Championship came at the wheel of Phil Monteiths 1982 Hatari
Firebird.
In 2000, Peter took
his 1998 S&W dragster to win the biggest bracket races in
the northeast to date. Peter captured $50,000 in a race win at
Cecil County MD in April and 3 months later he won another $50,000
in a race at Atco NJ in June.
Peter won his second
NHRA Super Stock World Championship in 2000.
In the fall of 2000.
Peter Biondo was referred to as "the Terminator" on
ESPN TV by an ESPN commentator after clinching the Jegs All Star
race in Illinois in both Stock and Super Stock. The fall put
an end to what might be Peter's most successful season to date.
"2000 was a year I will never forget. It makes you realize
that hard work and determination really pay off" Peter stated.
In 2003, Peter won
his third NHRA Super Stock World Championship.
Driving his 69' camaro,
Peter won the NHRA Stock Eliminator World Championship in 2005
by setting a record for the highest points total in NHRA history
with 792 points.
In 2006 Peter Biondo won his 5th NHRA World Championship
driving the Hatari 2000' Firebird. Later in the year, the team
decided to switch cars to Arnie Martel's 06' Cobalt.
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