A funny car is a type of drag racing vehicle and a specific racing class in organized drag racing. Funny cars are characterized by having tilt-up fiberglass or carbon fiber automotive bodies …

Mar 23, 2021 · The short and surprisingly simple answer is—literally—someone back in the early 1960s looked at the odd design of a basic Super Stock car with its altered wheelbase and …

Mar 31, 2016 · The first Funny Car to exceed 250 mph, it carried “the Snake” to two wins in 1982 and one of the greatest runs in class history, a stunning 5.63 clocking at the U.S. Nationals.

Jan 22, 2021 · Don Schumacher Racing’s Dodge Charger Funny Cars swept all 11 races last season, but the Charger is certainly not a new body style to the class, having been around …

Jan 31, 2025 · In the long history of Funny Cars, there have been plenty that became world-famous and well-renowned, and then there are those that toiled sometimes outside the …

Aug 6, 2023 · Modern Funny cars employ aerodynamically altered carbon-fiber bodies to reduce wind drag and vehicle weight. Most Funny cars have 426-cubic-inch supercharged …

Jul 19, 2022 · Having gained somewhat of a cult status, these whimsical six-seaters have been dividing people since their launch in 1998. After the Multiplas were discontinued in 2010, their …

Jul 2, 2024 · As the 12,000-hp Funny Car nears half the speed of sound, the driver experiences something weird: At nearly 330 mph, the world goes quiet.

Strap in and take a wild ride in the fastest cars on the planet, the Top Fuel Funny Cars and Dragsters! They have about 10,000 horsepower and reach speeds of over 300 miles per hour. …

Aug 9, 2022 · The technology behind a both an NHRA Top Fuel dragster and a Funny Car is stunning, a true engineering feat of genius.