Drag Illustrated Issue 109, May 2016 | Page 120

TOP 8

TOP FUEL ELIMINATOR QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS( 1000-feet)
RANK PERF DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
1
3.662
Shawn Langdon
Brainerd
MN
8 / 23 / 2015
1
334.15
Shawn Langdon
Mohnton
PA
10 / 8 / 2012
FUNNY CAR ELIMINATOR QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS( 1000-feet)
RANK PERF DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
1
3.874
Tommy Johnson, Jr.
Chandler
AZ
2 / 6 / 2016
1
331.45
Matt Hagan
Pomona
CA
11 / 15 / 2015
TOP ALCOHOL DRAGSTER QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS( quarter-mile)
RANK PERF DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
1
5.103
Bill Reichert
Baytown
TX
4 / 1 / 2007
1
285.35
Don St. Arnaud
Pomona
CA
2 / 7 / 2015
TOP ALCOHOL FUNNY CAR QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS( quarter-mile)
RANK PERF DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
1 5.360 Gary Phillips Kwinana Beach WAU 2 / 18 / 2016 1 275.56 John Lombardo, Jr. Gainesville FL 3 / 21 / 2016
NHRA PRO STOCK ELIMINATOR QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS( carbureted, quarter-mile)
RANK PERF DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
1
6.455
Jason Line
Concord
NC
3 / 29 / 2015
1
215.55
Erica Enders-Stevens
Englishtown
NJ
5 / 31 / 2014
NHRA PRO STOCK ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS( EFI, quarter-mile)
RANK E. T. DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
1 6.562 Jason Line Gainesville FL 3 / 20 / 2016
2 6.581 Greg Anderson Gainesville FL 3 / 20 / 2016
3 6.590 Bo Butner Chandler AZ 2 / 28 / 2016
4 6.599 Alex Laughlin Gainesville FL 3 / 20 / 2016
5 6.616 Drew Skillman Pomona CA 2 / 13 / 2016
6 6.623 Vincent Nobile Pomona CA 2 / 13 / 2016
7 6.627 Jeg Coughlin, Jr. Gainesville FL 3 / 19 / 2016
8 6.628 Allen Johnson Gainesville FL 3 / 19 / 2016
NHRA PRO STOCK ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS( EFI, quarter-mile)
RANK M. P. H. DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
1 210.57 Jason Line Gainesville FL 3 / 19 / 2016
2 210.14 Bo Butner Pomona CA 2 / 13 / 2016
3 210.28 Greg Anderson Gainesville FL 3 / 20 / 2016
4 209.52 Chris McGaha Pomona CA 2 / 13 / 2016
5 209.79 Drew Skillman Gainesville FL 3 / 20 / 2016
6 209.14 Chris McGaha Chandler AZ 2 / 28 / 2016
7 209.04 Alex Laughlin Gainesville FL 3 / 19 / 2016
8 208.81 Shane Gray Pomona CA 2 / 13 / 2016
Fiscus and Gonzalez Are Now the World’ s Fastest!
The“ El General” 2015 Corvette of Jose Gonzalez has regained the title of“ World’ s Fastest Eighth-Mile Doorslammer” with a series of astonishing runs by two different drivers. The same Jerry Bickel-built turbocharged machine,( albeit now in orange livery), which Gonzalez wheeled to the quickest 660-feet turbo pass ever at 3.51 seconds at 2015’ s season-ending PDRA event at Dinwiddie( VA) proceeded to make him the third driver to break 230 mph with a 231.24 mph blast at the second PDRA race of 2016 in Rockingham( NC).
However, the run did not make Gonzalez the fastest driver ever. As a resident of the Dominican Republic, Gonzalez is seldom able to attend test sessions and several drivers have taken his place when engine builder Steve Petty’ s ProLine Racing Engines team decides to wring out the Hemi-powered“ General”. Five days before the PDRA race, turbo veteran Kevin Fiscus jumped into the‘ Vette on a Tuesday afternoon and christened the completely rebuilt GALOT Motorsports Park in Benson( NC) with its first World Record, a staggering 231.44 mph, on an equally impressive 3.540-second run. Earlier in the day, Floridian Fiscus recorded
a 3.56 at 230.06 mph to become the first driver to run over 230 mph twice.
Gonzalez’ s Rockingham performance missed becoming the new Pro Extreme Eliminator speed record when the one-percent verification run still mandated by the PDRA was missed by a solitary hundredth of a mph. Regardless, the“ El General” Corvette is now responsible for three of the five fastest drivers in 660-feet doorslammer history and has now produced the three quickest eighth-mile turbo pilots in vehicles of ANY configuration.
Scruggs and Snider Join the“ Three-Forty” and“ Two-Twenty” Clubs!
Prior to the PDRA’ s 2016 opener at Osage Casino Tulsa( OK) Raceway Park, only“ Mad Man” Frankie Taylor had visited the“ forties”,( under 3.5 seconds in an eighth-mile and under 5.5 seconds in a quarter-mile) in anything but a dragster or a Funny Car. During the traditional test day which precedes each PDRA race, Jason and Mitchell Scruggs posted a 3.494 and, on the same pass, hit 221.49 mph to be the first to officially exceed 220 mph in a supercharged Pro Extreme entry. Nearly twenty-three
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NHRA PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS( quarter-mile)
UNLIMITED TURBOCHARGED PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS( quarter-mile)
UNLIMITED SUPERCHARGED PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS( quarter-mile)
UNLIMITED NITROUS OXIDE PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR QUICKEST DRIVERS( quarter-mile)
RANK E. T. DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
RANK E. T. DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
RANK E. T. DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
RANK E. T. DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
1 5.751 Jonathan Gray Gainesville FL 3 / 19 / 2016
1 5.461 Turki al Zafiri Madison IL 8 / 23 / 2014
1 5.476 Frankie Taylor Madison IL 8 / 23 / 2014
1 5.753 Mahana al Naemi Doha QAT 1 / 15 / 2016
2 5.772 Melanie Troxel Englishtown NJ 6 / 4 / 2011
2 5.565 Paul Mouhayet Las Vegas NV 11 / 21 / 2015
2 5.588 John Stanley Las Vegas NV 11 / 22 / 2015
2 5.760 Rickie Smith Bithlo FL 11 / 14 / 2015
3 5.772 Brad Personett Englishtown NJ 6 / 5 / 2011
3 5.572 Eric Dillard Las Vegas NV 11 / 23 / 2014
3 5.645 Mike Maggio Las Vegas NV 11 / 21 / 2014
3 5.768 Mike Castellana Dinwiddie VA 9 / 23 / 2014
4 5.774 Don Walsh Las Vegas NV 10 / 31 / 2015
6 5.597 Troy Coughlin Las Vegas NV 11 / 21 / 2015
4 5.683 John Zappia Kwinana Beach WAU 1 / 9 / 2015
4 5.773 Khalid al Balooshi Doha QAT 1 / 31 / 2016
5 5.775 Mike Janis Englishtown NJ 6 / 6 / 2015
4 5.659 Steve Summers Norwalk OH 9 / 17 / 2015
5 5.706 Dan Nickelson Sonoma CA 3 / 3 / 2013
5 5.792 Bob Rahaim Jupiter FL 2 / 27 / 2016
6 5.778 Rickie Smith Commerce GA 5 / 17 / 2014
5 5.669 Kevin Fiscus Norwalk OH 9 / 20 / 2015
6 5.717 Mike Recchia Union Grove WI 9 / 5 / 2015
6 5.812 Robert Patrick Budds Creek MD 9 / 26 / 2014
7 5.781 Mike Castellana Englishtown NJ 6 / 4 / 2011
7 5.730 Jose Gonzalez Las Vegas NV 11 / 18 / 2012
7 5.736 Khalid al Thani Doha QAT 2 / 6 / 2016
7 5.820 Jim Laurita Madison IL 9 / 28 / 2013
8 5.798 Bob Rahaim Bristol TN 6 / 20 / 2015
8 5.736 Don Walsh Las Vegas NV 11 / 17 / 2012
8 5.738 Scott Cannon Englishtown NJ 10 / 4 / 2008
8 5.821 Khalid Mohammed Sakhir BAH 3 / 3 / 2013
NHRA PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS( quarter-mile)
UNLIMITED TURBOCHARGED PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS( quarter-mile)
UNLIMITED SUPERCHARGED PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS( quarter-mile)
UNLIMITED NITROUS OXIDE PRO MODIFIED ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS( quarter-mile)
RANK M. P. H. DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
RANK M. P. H. DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
RANK M. P. H. DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
RANK M. P. H. DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
1 259.66 Don Walsh Las Vegas NV 10 / 31 / 2015
1 274.83 Troy Coughlin Las Vegas NV 11 / 21 / 2015
1 263.82 Mike Maggio Las Vegas NV 11 / 24 / 2014
1 251.25 Rickie Smith Jupiter FL 2 / 26 / 2016
2 258.71 Melanie Troxel Englishtown NJ 6 / 4 / 2011
2 274.33 Paul Mouhayet Madison IL 8 / 28 / 2015
2 263.77 Frankie Taylor Madison IL 8 / 23 / 2014
2 249.07 Bob Rahaim Englishtown NJ 6 / 6 / 2015
3 258.07 Brad Personett Englishtown NJ 6 / 4 / 2011
3 272.83 Turki al Zafiri Madison IL 8 / 23 / 2014
3 262.08 John Stanley Las Vegas NV 11 / 22 / 2015
3 248.75 Mahana al Naemi Doha QAT 1 / 15 / 2016
4 258.07 Rick Snavely Clermont IN 9 / 7 / 2015
4 269.51 Eric Dillard Las Vegas NV 11 / 21 / 2014
4 258.42 Pete Kapiris Eastern Creek NSW 5 / 4 / 2013
4 248.25 Robert Patrick Budds Creek MD 6 / 20 / 2015
5 258.02 Jonathan Gray Gainesville FL 3 / 19 / 2016
5 264.08 Kevin Fiscus Norwalk OH 9 / 20 / 2015
5 257.48 Marc Meadors Sonoma CA 7 / 27 / 2014
5 247.57 Dan Stevenson Jupiter FL 2 / 28 / 2016
6 257.97 Troy Coughlin Madison IL 9 / 29 / 2012
6 263.62 Steve Summers Norwalk OH 9 / 18 / 2015
6 256.55 Dan Myers Famoso CA 10 / 6 / 2013
6 247.47 Mike Castellana Gainesville FL 3 / 19 / 2016
7 256.60 Roger Burgess Mohnton PA 6 / 5 / 2011
7 262.95 Bill Lutz Budds Creek MD 4 / 15 / 2016
7 256.05 Von Smith Doha QAT 4 / 15 / 2009
7 247.38 Jim Laurita Baytown TX 4 / 25 / 2014
8 254.62 Troy Coughlin, Jr. Concord NC 9 / 19 / 2015
8 262.49 Todd Tutterow Englishtown NJ 10 / 23 / 2012
8 255.15 Mike Stawicki Cayuga ONT 8 / 7 / 2010
8 247.11 Khalid al Balooshi Doha QAT 1 / 31 / 2016
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