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BangShift Poll: Which would you drive, a Top Fuel Dragster or a Nitro Funny Car?


BangShift Poll: Which would you drive, a Top Fuel Dragster or a Nitro Funny Car?

As we continue to prepare for our big live broadcast of the PRO Winter Warm-up this Friday and Saturday from Palm Beach International Raceway, our brains are completely awash in thoughts os nitromethane. We were thinking about the iron that’ll be spewing header flames at us this weekend and tried to decide which of these monsters we’d want to be strapped into. 

On the one hand there’s the purposeful allure of a Top Fuel dragster. It stands as the most singularly purposed racing vehicle on planet Earth. Over the last sixty of so years of drag racing, small evolutionary steps have led racers and crew chiefs to the current design and configuration of the modern dragster. They are the hardest accelerating piston driven vehicles on Earth…period.

Then there’s the other hand. The wild history and bad manners of a nitro Funny Car call out to anyone who has ever jockeyed a car down a drag strip. Carbon fiber bodies draped over a too short tube chassis holding a blown, nitro burning hemi in the wrong place, they require the driver to manhandle the butterflies all the way down the strip. Where fuel dragsters are almost graceful in their design and performance, the nitro flopper is blunted and ill tempered.

So there’s the question….which do YOU want to run down the strip?

 



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