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This Is Why Drag Racing Is Awesome
Eyeball-rattling grunt and cars launched by the hand of God: Drag racing is one of the most awe-inspiring things on wheels. Wired.com's Chuck Squatriglia recently took a closer look at Top Fuel racing — the pinnacle of the sport. —Ed.
There is nothing subtle about drag racing.
It is a sport of extremes, from the unconscionable amounts of fuel consumed to the unfathomable amounts of power produced to the ungodly sums of money spent in the singular pursuit of maximum acceleration.
Nowhere is this more obvious than on the starting line, when two top-fuel dragsters unleash 8,000 horsepower apiece. Standing behind them is like opening the gates of hell. The air roars. The ground shakes. Noxious fumes wash over you. The cars streak toward the horizon as if thrown by the hand of God.
Top fuel is the pinnacle of drag racing. Even in a sport where success is measured in thousandths of a second, everything in top fuel happens in a blink of the eye. The best drivers can do the quarter-mile in around 4 seconds. They experience about 5 times the force of gravity. And they reach the far side of 300 mph.
The 14:71 supercharger on Grubnik's car runs 45 to 50 pounds of boost and sucks down as much as 3,200 cubic feet of air per minute during a run.
The fuel pump can move 95 gallons a minute through a constant-flow injection system. Two magnetos provide spark to the pair of custom-made spark plugs in each cylinder.
The result is an engine capable of producing about 8,000 horsepower and 6,000 pound feet of torque. That's roughly six times greater than the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, which is, at this moment anyway, the fastest production car on the planet.
Such figures are, like the federal deficit or Google's market cap, are too big to comprehend. All you really need to know is, a top-fuel engine can propel a 2,250-pound dragster from zero to 120 mph in 1.3 seconds.
Getting from 120 to 280 mph takes another 1.7 seconds. The NHRA boasts that a top-fuel dragster can out-accelerate a fighter jet from a standing start. Two seconds into a run, the driver is experiencing as much as 5 times the force of gravity.
"A top-fuel dragster is either on or it's off," Grubnik says. "There is no in-between. It's completely nuts."
Top-fuel dragsters bear no resemblance to anything you might even remotely consider an automobile. Oh sure, they've got four wheels, a steering wheel and an engine, but that's where the similarities end.
The cars are 25 feet long, as stipulated by the rules, and have a wheelbase of no more than 300 inches. They are made of chrome-moly steel tubing and wrapped in carbon fiber bodywork. Grubnik says the rear wing on his car generates 5,000 pounds of downforce at 300 mph.
Massive 14-inch carbon fiber brakes on the rear wheels, along with a pair of parachutes, bring the cars down from speed. When a driver yanks the cord on both chutes, he can experience as much as 7 times the force of gravity
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- Beginnings of a drag driver (GC68TAK)
- Top fuel dragster (GC68TB2)
- Supercharged Outlaw (GC68TB4)
- Top Doorslammer (GC68TBA)
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