Here, we examine how Garlits’ serious accident at Long Beach, California, in 1970, changed the design of dragsters, ... Garlits: The cars back then accelerated so much harder at the end.

While this car is not particularly new, we felt that it was interesting enough to show again. It is a classic Fiat 500 from the 1960s, the golden age of car design, which has been retrofitted with ...

How do you keep the boy on the farm after he's won the FIA (Federation Internationale de l'Automobile) championship?

These design improvements, combined with a lightweight set of tubes or "rails" and a set of retreads, allowed dragsters to approach 150-mph quarter-mile trap speeds.

The top drag-racing cars are capable of reaching upwards of 11,000 horse power by optimizing the three pillars of internal combustion: fuel, air, and spark.

The fastest speed on record is 338.17 mph (Top Fuel) at 1,000 feet. A Top Alcohol Dragster can travel as fast as 285 mph in the quarter-mile. However, in drag racing, elapsed time is the ...

Unlike the rear-engine, Top Fuel “slingshot dragsters,” front-engine Funny Cars must have full body work to resemble a current production car. But Charger design cues abound.

Racing against the clock, students in teacher Shane Helmich’s STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) class launched Co2 dragsters of their own design, working to earn the best time … ...