8 seconds. At full throttle, dragsters can hit the 12,000-horsepower mark. Describing a blast down the drag strip in a ...
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Nitromethane fueled the funny car battles on the drag strips of the 1970s, and Mattel's marketing money made the sport burn brightly and also changed the face of all sports marketing for good.
Drag racing evolved from hot-rodding ... They can vary the fuel mixture to be as much as 90 percent nitromethane and set how much boost pressure the supercharger produces. All of those decisions ...