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VEHICULE COURSE ACCELERATION TOP ALCOHOL [1 record]

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Record 1 2023-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Motor Vehicles and Bicycles
  • Motorized Sports
CONT

A Top Fuel dragster—distinguished by a supercharged, custom-built, 500-cubic-inch engine—boasts 11,000 horsepower and burns nitromethane. By contrast, a Top Alcohol dragster's output is about approximately 4,000 hp [horsepower].

CONT

Top Fuelers use supercharged engines that burn a mixture of 90 percent nitromethane and 10 percent methanol. Top Alcohol dragsters may be powered by one of two different powerplants, either a supercharged methanol-burning engine or an injected nitromethane combination.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sortes de véhicules automobiles et de bicyclettes
  • Sports motorisés

Spanish

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