About Top Dragster Diversity in NHRA Racing

Video Transcript

"TINA STULL: Hi. I'm Tina Stull and I drive the Top Dragster for Interstate Batteries. On behalf of Expert Village, today we're going to talk about the basics of racing. With Top Dragster, mainly we're talking all real dragsters and virtually unlimited modifications are allowed. There you can run on both regular fuel or you can actually run alcohol in this class, so it's pretty much unlimited. The only real restraint that they have is that if you're over 200 miles/hour, you have to wear additional safety equipment and so form of neck restraint such as a HANS device and--but you'll see a lot of older alcohol cars that maybe are competitive there. They're coming in there so you maybe racing anywhere from a 180 mile/hour car up to a 220 mile/hour car. The cars are running anywhere from the 740s all the way into low 6s. So it's a very diverse class. It's growing very rapidly because the popularity of not having limitation of a time."