I spent the first half of the 1970s wrenching on supercharged fuel Funny Cars. Those familiar with the breed know that even ...

NHRA teams pay $1800 for a 40-gallon drum of nitromethane, so they’re paying $45 a gallon—and that’s a group discount negotiated for the entire racing season. Every single run consumes 14 gallons of ...

Johansson and Sternhoff 1 have shown that the detonation light from some TNT-based explosives is suppressed under pressure from an externally produced shock wave. We have observed similar behaviour in ...

They are considered the kings of the sport-the supercharged and nitromethane-sniffing internal combustion beasts that literally stomp the ground and push a 2,300-pound land rocket on 1,000-foot runs ...

Try, for a moment, to comprehend a four-cylinder engine capable of achieving 4,000 hp at 55 psi turbo boost on nitromethane. It gets wild pretty fast. A single horsepower is defined as the ability to ...

It takes fuel to go racing, and that could present a problem for the NHRA later this summer. The drag racing series has the 2008 Summer Games to thank for that. The nitromethane that powers the Top ...