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Two Top Fuel dragsters side by side during an NHRA event in 2012. Top Fuel is a type of drag racing whose dragsters are the quickest accelerating racing cars in the world and the fastest sanctioned category of drag racing, with the fastest competitors reaching speeds of 341.68 miles per hour (549.9 km/h) and finishing the 1,000 foot (304.8 m) runs in 3.61 seconds.
European Drag Racing Championship Records Category Record Type Driver Time/Speed Location Date Top Fuel Dragster 1000 ft Time: Ida Zetterstrom : 3.773 sec: Santa Pod : May 2023 1000 ft Speed: Duncan Micaleff : 321.40 mph: Tierp Arena : August 2024 Top Methanol Dragster 1/4 Mile Time: Timo Habermann : 5.209 sec: Tierp Arena : August 2015 1/4 ...
The e.t. was quicker than Gary Beck's 5.39-second NHRA Top Fuel dragster record, the first time that the water record was lower than the land record. [ 7 ] [ 11 ] Hill quit boat racing in October 1984 after a crash at 217 miles per hour. [ 7 ] "
Tony Schumacher, set the world record for top fuel dragsters with a 337.58 mph (543.28 km/h) run in 2005. This speed and time are recorded at the end of a standing start quarter mile acceleration race, before the NHRA shortened top fuel and funny car races to the current 1,000 ft (300 m) since 2008. [13]
Top Fuel (class designation: AA/D top fuel dragster) and Fuel Funny Car (class designation: AA/FC top fuel coupe) have recently been limited to a 1,000-foot (300 m) track, instead of the historic 1/4 mile [1,320 feet (402 m)], as a means to limit top speeds and increase safety (there had been a number of engine explosions at or near 300 mph ...
Top Fuel Dragster (TF/D). The dragsters, or "diggers", are the fastest class. Among the fastest-accelerating machines in the world, these cars can cover the dragstrip in less than 3.7 seconds and record trap speeds over 330 mph (530 km/h). Under current rules, Modern Top Fuel dragsters are 25 ft (7.6 m) long and weigh 2,320 lb (1,050 kg) in ...
Pruett won two races this season in the Dodge Top Fuel dragster driving for Tony Stewart Racing, which won the Funny Car championship with Matt Hagan. Pruett has 12 career Top Fuel victories.
In May 2010, Top Fuel dragster driver Urs Erbacher set a class speed record with a terminal speed of 314.87 miles per hour (506.73 km/h) reached in less than 5 seconds. At the same race meeting, Eric Teboul set a time of 5.2321 seconds at 249 miles per hour (400.73 km/h) on his Hydrogen Peroxide Rocket Bike, which he further improved to 5.19 ...