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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 ...
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.
Supercharged A fuel altereds, or AA/FAs, are exemplified by the famous Pure Heaven, Pure Hell, and Rat Trap. [12] Winged Express, piloted by "Wild Willie" Borsch, is "arguably is the most famous fuel altered of all time". [13] The car was built for AA/A in 1961 by Phil Johnson, and converted to AA/FA specification in 1963. [13]
Pure Hell was an American Fuel Altered (AA/FA) drag racing car. With an 89 in (2,300 mm) wheelbase, Pure Hell was initially powered by a Chevrolet small-block engine V8, mounted high in the chassis, at a steep angle, to improve traction. [1] Driver Don Petrich was replaced in 1965 by Dale Emery. [1]
She is the only female drag racer to record a 5-second 1/4 mile elapsed time in a front-engined Top Fuel dragster, [3] as well as the only female member of the exclusive "Nostalgia Top Fuel 250 mph Club". [4] In 2019 she recorded the first 5.4 second quarter-mile elapsed time in a AA/Fuel Dragster.
Winged Express qualified for the 1968 NHRA Winternationals, a 32-car field in Top Fuel, at an AA/FA record elapsed time of 7.29 seconds, only to have the rest of the field refuse to race Borsch, for fear of the ill-handling Altered. It turned out they were right: in Round One of Super Eliminator, Borsch went from guardrail to centerline, in a ...
Leah Pruett will step away from the NHRA drag racing series in 2024 to focus on starting a family with Tony Stewart. Pruett and Stewart married just over two years ago. “This is an incredibly ...
Kalitta's American International Top Fuel dragster Kalitta's crew working on his dragster in the pits. Scott D. Kalitta (February 18, 1962 – June 21, 2008) was an American drag racer who competed in the Funny Car and Top Fuel classes in the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Full Throttle Drag Racing Series.