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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 338 miles per hour (544.0 km/h) and finishing the 1,000 foot (304.8 m) runs in 3.62 seconds.
WW: 13 October 2016. Genre (s) First-person shooter, sports. Mode (s) Single-player, online multiplayer. RIGS: Mechanized Combat League is a 2016 first-person shooter sports video game developed by Guerrilla Cambridge and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4 console and its virtual reality add-on PlayStation VR. [1][2]
The top drive allows the drilling rig to drill the longer section of a stand of drill pipe in one operation. [1] A rotary table type rig can only drill 30-foot (9.1 m) (single drill pipe) sections of drill pipe whereas a top drive can drill 60–90-foot (18–27 m) stands (double and triple drill pipe respectively, a triple being three joints of drillpipe screwed together), depending on the ...
Darrell James Russell (September 20, 1968 – June 27, 2004) [1] was an American National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) drag racer. He was the 2001 NHRA Rookie Of The Year. [2] At the time, he was the third driver to win in his Professional class debut. Before becoming a driver in NHRA's Professional class of Top Fuel Dragster, he competed for ...
Top Fuel, c. 1990. Gene Snow was an American racing driver who pioneered funny cars in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, bringing innovations such as a direct drive system using multiple clutches when rivals were still using automatic transmissions based on those used in production models. [1] He was ranked #26 on NHRA's Top 50 drivers in 2001.
Gary Beck (born January 21, 1941) is a two-time World champion drag racing driver. Born in Seattle, Washington and raised in the United States, Beck married a Canadian and they made their home in her native Edmonton, Alberta. He competed in stock car racing before switching to drag racing. A virtual unknown, in 1972 he abruptly came to ...
Surface. Concrete. Length. .25 miles (.402 km) Race lap record. 0:03.701 (1000 feet) (Antron Brown, Don Schumacher Racing, 2012, Top Fuel) Maple Grove Raceway is a quarter-mile dragstrip located near Mohnton, Pennsylvania, just outside Reading. It opened in 1962 as a 1/5-mile dragstrip. It was eventually lengthened to its current quarter-mile ...
R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 [b], released without the 'R4' prefix in PAL territories, is a 1998 racing video game developed and published by Namco for the PlayStation.It is the fourth home title in the Ridge Racer series after Rage Racer (1996) and was initially released on December 3, 1998 in Japan, with global releases following in 1999.