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drag racingMotor sport popular in the USA. High-powered single-seater cars with large rear and small front wheels are timed over a 402.2 m/440 yd strip. Speeds of up to 530 kph/330 mph have been attained by the fastest type of drag-racing cars, ‘top fuel’ dragsters – the other categories of professional drag-racing vehicles are ‘funny cars’, ‘pro-stock’, and ‘pro-stock bikes’. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The father-of-two nicknamed 'Hamster' told how he struggled 'mortally withdepression' and still speaks regularly to a psychiatrist following the incidentwhen he flipped a jet-powered dragracing car at 288mph. Andy primarily uses the car for dragracing in the UK Street Eliminator series, and has competed in Britain, Europe and America. He decided after 13 years that he wasn't going to make it as a dragracing pro, so he called upon his mechanical background and opened auto-parts and machine shops in Greencastle and near his childhood home of Coatesville, near the Hendricks-Putnam county line. |
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