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
ATTENTION READERS & RACERS : The Drag Illustrated Top Eight lists do not include the eight quickest elapsed times or eight fastest speeds recorded in each class . The Lists also do not reflect the eight quickest or fastest vehicles . The DI Top Eight lists rank the quickest and fastest drivers in each Eliminator category . The DI Top Eight rankings do not necessarily reflect the current National or World Records of any association . For current official world records , consult the sanctioning body or racing organization . Listings are not subject to verification or confirmation by any other runs . A claim to any record may be made by submitting all pertinent information and a photo or scan of a timeslip to bret @ dragillustrated . com . Performances recorded outside organized drag racing events are accepted in all classes except NHRA Pro Modified , NHRA Pro Stock , NHRA Top Alcohol Dragster , NHRA Top Alcohol Funny Car , and X275 Eliminators . Testing results may be subject to additional scrutiny . Drag Illustrated reserves the right to refuse a claim for any reason .
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