Top Fuel Dragsters , by Sports Science

Top Fuel dragsters are some of the most mind blowing and physics defying vehicles on the planet. Here are some of the stats compiled by ESPN Sports Science:

- It travels to the 1000 foot mark in less then 4 seconds,

- the engine uses the equivalent of 100 gallons of nitromethane fuel a minute,

- the supercharger forces the equivalent of 50 cubic ft of air into the engine every sec,

- the engine's pistons fire up to 150 times a second,

- the engine produces more than 10.000 horsepower,

- 17.5 inch wide tires are made from a special blend of adhesive rubber that creates 6 times more friction than an average tire, and are inflated at just 7 pound of pressure,

- the cars accelerate up to 100 mph in just 0.8 seconds, twice as much acceleration as a fighter jet being catapulted of an aircraft carrier; speaking in Gs, the driver experiences 5 Gs, which is almost twice what an astronaut experienced when taking of with NASA's space shuttle, 

- to stop the car, a set of parachutes are used that cause up to negative 6 Gs of stopping power.

Below is the short video clip by ESPN Sports Science.

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Source: ESPN Sports Science, via Braggenrites.com.