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a parachute strapped to chaos that reaches highway speed before you finish this sentence.
means A specialized car built for straight-line acceleration races, engineered to cover a short distance from a standing start as fast as possible.
from A 20th-century American hot-rod coinage, from "drag race" plus the agent-style suffix "-ster" (as in "roadster" or "hipster"). The "drag" here is the slangy sense of a street or stretch of road — the "main drag" you'd race along — though how that meaning of "drag" arose is itself murky. The word grew up alongside postwar American car culture, when souped-up cars and the people who raced them needed names of their own.
- top speed
- over 330 mph in under four seconds
- engine
- makes around 11,000 horsepower
- g-force
- launch hits harder than a space shuttle
- fuel
- burns a gallon of nitromethane per run
- parachutes
- brakes alone can't stop it safely
top fuel dragster — fastest acceleration vehicles on earth, reaching 330+ mph in under 4 seconds at nhra events
shockwave jet truck — jet-powered dragster that hit 376 mph at international hot rod association events