It may be the only class project in the world that reaches 130 miles per hour in five and a half seconds. The rail dragster is now complete after nine months of work at Charles B. Aycock High School. ...

It’s not really that easy to drive one of the fastest vehicles in the world. After all, a top fuel dragster accelerates from a standstill to 100 mph (160km/h) in as little as 0.8 seconds. But not all ...

Drag racing has long been perceived the preserve of gas-guzzling street-legal and hot rod cars, modified motorcycles, and highly-expensive, custom-built rail dragsters, but for years now a team of ...

Spurred on by racing tales, and fascinated by pictures of a muscular Chevrolet dragster, Dan Dietrich could barely wait his turn. All his young life, he imagined sitting behind the wheel of his father ...

Drag racing has long been perceived as a sport reserved for gas-guzzling hot rod cars, modified motorcycles and custom-built rail dragsters. But for years, a team of dedicated electric vehicle drag ...