He was driving a special, very fast car called a dragster about 460 kilometers per hour.
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The dragsters that race within this category are capable of covering a quarter mile from a standing start in as little as 4.5 seconds.
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This design is notably safer as it puts most of the fuel processing and rotating or reciprocating parts of thedragsterbehind the driver.
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As a youth, he raced his owndragsterin the late 1950s.
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The car turned out to be a fifties-styledragsterat a time whendragsterdesign was rapidly evolving.
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Vehicles range from the everyday car to the purpose-builtdragster.
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Electric dragsters have come of age with new developments in battery and motor technology.
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Hisdragsterbroke up after he crossed the finish line.
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Some highly modified sport compact dragsters can accelerate from 0-60 mph in less than four seconds.
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In her eight years of juniordragstercompetition, she had 37 career wins.
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The button was designed to be pressed by the thumb while the ship was held by the main body or engine piece (indragsterconfiguration).
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Other innovations included equipping dragsters with data recorders, installing a two-stage lockup-style clutch, and a fuel delivery system with two sources.
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Open wheel dragsters are freed from any such constraint, and can go to enormous tire sizes (the opposite of tripodal which are quite minuscule).
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They did not use (and current dragsters still do not use) any form of suspension.
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These ranged from dragsters to a turbojet-powered car which briefly held the land speed record three times during 1964 and 1965.
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Even diesel-engined dragsters exist, despite the diesel's drawbacks of weight and low peak rpm, specifications central to performance in this sport.
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