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Bricktown Drag Boat Circuit, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States Jay Wallace 2006/05/06 Event: National Jet Boat Association May Shootout race Lake Ming, near Bakersfield, California Charlie Hodsdon 2006/10/15 Lake Ming, near Bakersfield, California "White Thunder" River Races jet boat Lloyd Burns 2007/04/21 Kentucky Drag Boat Association
Jack Chrisman (May 5, 1928 [citation needed] – August 17, 1989) was an American drag racer. He was a drag racing pioneer and 1961 champion. He was a drag racing pioneer and 1961 champion. He was influential in the formation of the Funny Car class, as he introduced the first blown injected nitro -burning Funny Car. [ 2 ]
Lake Lucas [3] was the world's first purpose-built drag boat racing lake when built in 2011. The facility played host to drag boat races for eight straight years until the Lucas Oil Drag Boat Series was discontinued at the conclusion of the 2018 season. Citing a need for the company to move in a new direction, then everything changed in 2020. [4]
H1 Unlimited (2 C, 25 P) M. Motorboat races (1 C, 7 P) ... Drag boat racing; A. American Power Boat Association;
After a fire subsequent to the record effort, in 1960, Glass Slipper reappeared with a GMC supercharger and Hilborn injection. [1] This enabled the dragster to set a best e.t. of 8.93 seconds and a best speed of 172 mph (277 km/h) at Vacaville, California. She was retired in 1961. [1] In the 1990s, the car was restored. [1]
In both classes, the cars are either supercharged engines, burning alcohol or can burn nitromethane and be normally aspirated, fuel injected engines. [1] Top Alcohol Dragsters and Funny Cars resemble their nitromethane (Fuel) counterparts, with about half the power of their respective classes.
1976: The "Crucifier", a race boat powered by a Banks fuel-injected nitro HEMI wins every event it enters, including the NDBA (National Drag Boat Association) and APBA nationals. 1978: Gale Banks Engineering is contracted by N.I.S.T.A. in the Department of Transportation to develop the power train for its Large Research Safety Vehicle (L.S.R.V ...
Although a bit of a misnomer as the boats aren't without limits, unlimited hydroplanes have much fewer restrictions than with limited hydroplane racing. These 30 foot, 6,800 lbs boats most often powered by a Lycoming T55 -L7 turbine engine (used from the Vietnam era to the present day in the CH-47 Chinook military helicopter ), which is capable ...