A native born Californian, Rahn Tobler grew up in Texas after his family moved there while he was still a youngster.
Now 43 years old, Tobler got his start in racing with the Texas Top Fuel team of Stevens & Venables in 1971,
working his way up from "tire wiper" to mechanic in short order.

By 1976, he was working with Oklahoman Marvin Graham, the unknown who came to fame after winning
the "74 U.S. Nationals. With Tobler making the tuning calls, the duo won the PDA Championship in Top Fuel.

Tobler joined Shirley Muldowney's race team shortly thereafter, and played an integral role in guiding her to
four world championship titles that includes a career best of 42 final round appearances with a total of 29 wins;
18 NHRA, 8 AHRA and 3 IHRA.

What had begun as a strictly working situation blossomed into a romantic relationship in 1980, with
Tobler and Muldowney getting married in 1988.

After Shirley's career-threatening accident in 1984, Tobler was instrumental in her recovery, coaching her
through months of difficult and painful physical therapy. She returned to competition in 1986, which culminated
in her win at the NHRA Falinationals race in Phoenix in 1989. Since the team decided to return to match race
competition in 1992, they have set numerous track records along with a record-setting performance in
Fuji, Japan in 1"3. That track record still stands as Japan's quickest and fastest to date.

Their performance at the IHRA Championship Series circuit starting in 1996, has delivered eight final round
appearances with three wins, finishing in second place for the '96 season. Electing not to attend all of the
events in 1997, they still finished third in the top ten, qualifying number one twice and setting two
National Elapsed Time Records and four IHRA National Speed Records.

The team decided to concentrate mainly on the match-race circuit for most of the 1998 season, setting
four new track records. In their one and only IHRA appearance, at the Northern Nationals in Stanton,
Michigan, they ran the quickest and fastest times ever run in IHRA history, 4.69 elapsed time at
312.50mph. Qualifying number one, they finished the race in the runner-up position.