Drag Illustrated Issue 118, February 2017 | Page 120

TOP 8

TOP FUEL ELIMINATOR QUICKEST & FASTEST DRIVERS( 1000-feet)
RANK PERF DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
1
3.654
Leah Pritchett
Chandler
AZ
2 / 4 / 2017
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
3.804
Courtney Force
Chandler
AZ
2 / 3 / 2017
1
335.57
Matt Hagan
Topeka
KS
5 / 20 / 2016
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
285.83
Don St. Arnaud
Pomona
CA
11 / 10 / 2016
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 6.519 Jason Line Englishtown NJ 6 / 10 / 2016
2 6.527 Vincent Nobile Kent WA 8 / 6 / 2016
3 6.530 Bo Butner Kent WA 8 / 6 / 2016
4 6.530 Greg Anderson Pomona CA 2 / 10 / 2017
5 6.547 Shane Gray Pomona CA 2 / 11 / 2017
6 6.550 Allen Johnson Kent WA 8 / 6 / 2016
7 6.552 Alex Laughlin Kent WA 8 / 6 / 2016
8 6.553 Erica Enders-Stevens Pomona CA 2 / 11 / 2017
NHRA PRO STOCK ELIMINATOR FASTEST DRIVERS( EFI, quarter-mile)
RANK M. P. H. DRIVER SITE STATE DATE
1 212.93 Greg Anderson Englishtown NJ 6 / 10 / 2016
2 212.83 Jason Line Englishtown NJ 6 / 10 / 2016
3 212.66 Bo Butner Englishtown NJ 6 / 10 / 2016
4 212.46 Vincent Nobile Englishtown NJ 6 / 10 / 2016
5 212.26 Shane Gray Englishtown NJ 6 / 10 / 2016
6 212.06 Allen Johnson Englishtown NJ 6 / 10 / 2016
7 211.53 Alex Laughlin Kent WA 8 / 6 / 2016
8 211.10 Tanner Gray Pomona CA 2 / 10 / 2017
Women are Now the Sport’ s Performance Leaders!
Testing for the 2017 season produced the quickest elapsed times in the history of Top Fuel and Funny Car Eliminators but, for the first time in the sport’ s annals, female drivers now claim the ET performance marks simultaneously in the two premiere categories.
Leah Pritchett, at the helm of the Papa John’ s Pizza-backed entry from the Don Schumacher Racing stable, unleashed a series of 3.6-second runs at Wild Horse Raceway Park in Chandler, Arizona, during testing culminating in a 3.654 blast which surpassed Shawn Langdon’ s seventeen month-old 3.662 set at Brainerd( MN). Pritchett also became history’ s sixth-fastest Top Fuel Dragster pilot,( 331.85 mph), during the session.
At the same event, Courtney Force’ s new Advance Auto Parts-sponsored 2017 Chevrolet Camaro posted an incredible 3.804-second Funny Car shocker which eclipsed Matt Hagan’ s 3.822 standard from August, 2016. Moreover, Force hit a best speed of 333.33 mph to become the fifth fastest FC racer ever.
At the NHRA’ s opener at Pomona, Pritchett continued her dominance with a best of 3.674
en route to winning the Winternationals and assuming the lead in the Mello Yellow Championship point standings. Courtney Force’ s only loss came in the final round against Hagan’ s Express Lane Oil Changes / MoPar 2017 Dodge Charger,( also a DSR team car), which earlier in the race tied his previous record ET,( 3.822 at Brainerd, 2016), and his current all-time FC speed,( 335.57 at Topeka, 2016).
Amid the flurry of female fuel performances, it should be noted the most prolific woman racer in Pro Stock Eliminator, Erica Enders-Stevens, still owns the all-time NHRA speed mark for the class at 215.55 mph,( set at Englishtown, NJ, in 2014), and held the title of World’ s Quickest Pro Stock driver,( 6.461 at the same race), for nearly an entire season before it was taken by Allen Johnson,( 6.463), and Jason Line,( 6.455), at Charlotte in 2015.
Drag Radial Records Destroyed at Valdosta!
The eighth running of Donald Long’ s Light Out marathon at South Georgia Motorsports Park once again rewrote the Drag Illustrated Top 8 records and served as the catalyst for radial racers to continue their encroachment on
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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 5.508 Khalid Mohammed Sakhir BAH 1 / 10 / 2017
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 5.565 Paul Mouhayet Las Vegas NV 11 / 21 / 2015
3 5.645 Mike Maggio Las Vegas NV 11 / 21 / 2014
3 5.768 Mike Castellana Dinwiddie VA 9 / 23 / 2014
4 5.773 Troy Coughlin Clermont IN 9 / 2 / 2016
4 5.572 Eric Dillard Las Vegas NV 11 / 23 / 2014
4 5.683 John Zappia Kwinana Beach WAU 1 / 9 / 2015
4 5.773 Khalid al Balooshi Doha QAT 1 / 31 / 2016
5 5.774 Don Walsh Las Vegas NV 10 / 31 / 2015
5 5.591 Troy Coughlin Las Vegas NV 11 / 20 / 2016
5 5.706 Dan Nickelson Sonoma CA 3 / 3 / 2013
5 5.792 Bob Rahaim Jupiter FL 2 / 27 / 2016
6 5.775 Mike Janis Englishtown NJ 6 / 6 / 2015
6 5.659 Steve Summers Norwalk OH 9 / 17 / 2015
6 5.717 Mike Recchia Union Grove WI 9 / 5 / 2015
6 5.806 Dean Marinis Atco NJ 10 / 16 / 2016
7 5.776 Rickie Smith Baytown TX 5 / 1 / 2016
7 5.669 Kevin Fiscus Norwalk OH 9 / 20 / 2015
7 5.736 Khalid al Thani Doha QAT 2 / 6 / 2016
7 5.812 Robert Patrick Budds Creek MD 9 / 26 / 2014
8 5.781 Mike Castellana Englishtown NJ 6 / 4 / 2011
8 5.687 Sidnei Frigo Las Vegas NV 11 / 19 / 2016
8 5.738 Scott Cannon Englishtown NJ 10 / 4 / 2008
8 5.820 Jim Laurita Madison IL 9 / 28 / 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
1 277.99 Khalid Mohammed Sakhir BAH 1 / 10 / 2017
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
2 274.83 Troy Coughlin Las Vegas NV 11 / 21 / 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
3 274.33 Paul Mouhayet Madison IL 8 / 28 / 2015
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
4 272.83 Turki al Zafiri Madison IL 8 / 23 / 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
5 269.51 Eric Dillard Las Vegas NV 11 / 21 / 2014
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
6 264.08 Kevin Fiscus Norwalk OH 9 / 20 / 2015
6 256.55 Dan Myers Famoso CA 10 / 6 / 2013
6 247.47 Mike Castellana Gainesville FL 3 / 19 / 2016
7 257.68 Billy Glidden Englishtown NJ 6 / 12 / 2016
7 263.62 Steve Summers Norwalk OH 9 / 18 / 2015
7 256.05 Von Smith Doha QAT 4 / 15 / 2009
7 247.38 Jim Laurita Baytown TX 4 / 25 / 2014
8 256.89 Michael Bowman Clermont IN 9 / 3 / 2016
8 262.95 Bill Lutz Budds Creek MD 4 / 15 / 2016
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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