Personally I dont that much about drag racing and always felt it wasn't as cool as other form of motor sport but Ive got to hand it to them these are impressive machines.

The last paragraph really drives it home "If you approached the starting line at a drag strip going 200 mph, and a Top Fueler got the green light as you crossed the line, you’d still lose the race to the end of the quarter-mile"

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