Heartland Park, located in Topeka, has always been considered one of the fastest NHRA strip in the vast geography. It was here the first time and collapsed chetyrehsekundny trehsotmilny barriers in the classroom Funny Car. A first round qualifying stage 8 NHRA has already gone down in history as the fastest date in the world of drag racing in general. Firstly, Funny Car drivers of cars drove out of twelve times chetyrehsekundnoy zone (previous record — ten races). Second, five of them were faster than the current at the time of Jack Beckman national record set this year. Third, three of the four records in nitromethane divisions were rewritten under the onslaught of Matt Hagan and Brittany Force.
Matt Hagan, for which this season is not started in the best possible way, struck a thematic community on the spot, when, after his arrival on the scoreboard Friday highlighted the numbers 3.862 @ 335.57 mph. Plus two records in the piggy bank... and double champion with the highest speed as long as the student's record distance in the class was reduced from the usual Quarter 1000 feet. Yes, as a rule, Top Fuel dregster demonstrate higher rates of maximum speed, but whether the pilot Don Schumacher Racing the laws of physics does not confuse, or he simply canceled them in the evening.
It shaped the madness! During one race, we have set two records at once. Many thanks to all the guys in my team for the work done, we did not really stop on Friday...
Matt Hagan:
Another hero of the qualifying session began Brittany Force, which shows a much higher level of performance in this season, after Alan Johnson was appointed chief adviser to her team. 3.676 seconds was required the pilots to overcome a thousand feet, which was a four-thousandths of a second faster than last year's achievements Antron Brown.
It was an incredible race for the whole Monster Energy team. I was shocked when I found out the exact result. This strip has always been very fast, and we are all very pleased that on this day the fastest here, we were just...
Brittany Force:
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