Brittany Force sets Top Fuel national speed record

Brittany Force went 3.641-seconds at 338.94 mph in her 11,000-horsepower Monster Energy dragster, eclipsing her own record for the fastest run in class history and giving her a perfect start to kick off a huge weekend. If it holds, it would give Force her 10th No. 1 spot this season and 42nd in her career. More importantly, it gives Force, who entered the weekend with a slim seven-point advantage over Justin Ashley, momentum as she looks to claim her second career world title.
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[@BB..........]

It's kind of mind-boggling what Grubby has done with that car.

[@WineHouse33]

Basic rich crew chief

[@carstenpfundt]

I keep coming back to this video. Truly a marvel of human engineering.

[@kevincadden1814]

Great run Congrats to Brittany and team. David Grubnic tunes that Top Fueler to run high top end speeds. Hope she runs 340 mph!!!

[@N-wordScissorhands]

340 has been broken!

[@GT-mn3bx]

@@N-wordScissorhands By a dragster? I noticed the 341 FC

[@au1317]

The fact that the MPH changed by less than 50 between 1/8th and 1/4 really puts things into perspective

[@michealbarnes1447]

Unbelievable!!! It's at the point where every race you wonder who's gonna come in 2nd lol 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@rabarbosa62754]

Congrats Brittany! 👍🏼

[@LauRoot892]

Rob

[@paulvasquez1200]

She is the Queen of my Heart 💖 now let's just focus on the lights and win it all.# Number 1fan!

[@MetalMania3DTV-TAS-AUS]

Wow Congratulations 😊🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🇦🇺🇦🇺🤝🇺🇸😎👍

[@stephencostello3174]

Congrats to JFR!! Total class act. Brittany and Grub. Killing it. I watch the TF just to see Brittany run. Waiting for the first 300 mph to the 660. It's coming next year!! Looking up see that 3.600

[@LauRoot892]

Costello

[@deantait8326]

It’s early Feb (Pomona) weather here in early November. Even at a true 1015’ elevation fast….

[@edwardashley6688]

It takes two to tango. Dave tunes the horsepower and Brit puts it to the pavement! Damn, they can dance!!

[@LauRoot892]

Scarf 🧣

[@timlord4172]

Now that’s putting your foot to the metal!! Congrats Brittany 👍🏻

[@RodderTV]

Congratulations for your New Record.

[@tommaclosky5957]

Let's go Brittany!!! You can win it all.

[@49Mack]

Rock on, Brittany!! Oh, YEAH!!

[@LauRoot892]

49Mack

[@jiggyquinn5635]

All the accolades during qualifying go to the tuners, race day drivers are crucial, but congratulations David!

[@fortunadusseldorf552]

Saw this Beast today on the Nürburgring with running Engine 🏃🏻🏃🏻🏃🏻

[@hugejohnson5011]

Wowza, Wowza, Wowza! What did I just see?!

[@jim6827]

Great run grew up in 70's in Schenectady NY watching cha-cha wish they ran 1/4 mile like she did

[@vincereynolds6092]

Great run by Brittany! Just curious if the increased number of 330+ mph runs will bring about a rule change to slow them down. Hope not!

[@gunsandcommissions]

It's the laydown header era. If they stood the headers up, the speeds would come down. But who wants that? Sport is the safest it's ever been, by a long way.

[@matthewvarnam4302]

@@gunsandcommissions Until something happens.

[@razor_ramon_]

​@@matthewvarnam4302that's how we roll. We are lazy to do precautions. Instead, we act reactively

[@johnathantaylor5880]

Them breaking speeds may not really cause them to restrict but but if more accidents occur then they’ll probably come up with something, kinda like nascar they kept going faster until more accidents happened and so they started restricting it

[@mickgts8402]

Go Brit

[@snowman8235]

You Go Girl👍🎸😁

[@dmeemd7787]

Wow!!

[@marco203]

545.47 km/h🇨🇭

[@Jordan-xf7vw]

Let’s go Brittany!!!

[@endosrc]

Has she or anyone else ever gone a 1.9 to the 330

[@txrick4879]

The Force is with her .

[@geomodelrailroader]

Good Job Brittany now win this one. I smell 2022 Championship on the horizon.

[@rbszx14r56]

Wow that is awesome

[@user-gt2lh2ec9e]

WOW, BRITTANY can REALLY DRIVE WELL! John P.

[@GidDree]

297mph in the 1/8th ? Holy Moly

[@southfloridanick]

Others have been 299mph, no one has cracked 300mph though.

[@jw3931]

Imagine the MPH if we still went 1320...

[@matthewvarnam4302]

Too bad they won't go back to 1320.

[@jeffm4284]

@@matthewvarnam4302Don't agree. Physics means drivers and bystanders will die by the 1/4 mile. Ever designed a nitro-powered 8-cylinder machine that can handle the forces of 11-12K HP to the end of a quarter? Yep - neither has anyone else. How many times does a top fuel make it down the 1/8 mile without self-destructing in some way the 3rd or 4th time? Double the length. It can't happen. Limits are limits.

[@gunsandcommissions]

C'mon Brittney. Prock needs to get it right on Sunday and give Force her 2nd championship and get the Force team a 2 championship season.

[@nonamehawg7068]

Now can we turn more WIN LIGHTS ON??

[@cskvision]

Monster pass!

[@johnneal1102]

"For now" was the key words in that phrase...it's almost like he knew she was gonna beat it

[@LauRoot892]

Neal

[@markcopeland3892]

Get it Brittany.. Get that Championship..

[@Movilancer]

Dragtracks need to be longer fr

[@deanhummel7946]

WOW what a Ride 🍵

[@TheRSTD1]

💨 💨 💨!!!

[@TexasNativee]

So close to 340, imagine if they still did a full quarter what the speeds would be like.

[@djvycious]

545 km/h. Faster that Lagana's 1/4 mile record. Insanity.

[@user-gt2lh2ec9e]

BRITTANY DOES IT! John P.

[@38skippers]

Aussie tuner😏

[@bobsilver3983]

I have 2 words to say..."Let's Go Brittany"!!!

[@LauRoot892]

Bob

[@rilzero]

That's 3 words

[@TheGreyGhost_of43rd]

My s2000 held that track record for years. When im done with the next k24 build, Brittany gunna b left shook, Likes its 2007.

[@user-xh2je2qz1r]

Great job Brittany!!!! such a beautiful lady and awesome racer!!!

[@timothygent6716]

💯

[@davidtimms3201]

Dave Grubnic has that car flying. So close to 340. We will see that barrier broken next year.

[@LauRoot892]

Timms

[@r.m9431]

You go kid...The discipline doesn't matter in life,if you don't have discipline...I have a daughter that could care less about top fuel..🙂. It's all about family,and friends then it all comes together..Been to Indy over a few decades..Yes folks she is a Force ....Love John Force Racing...

[@Professional_FunHaver]

I was at this strip that day and I left early cause it was raining. Even worse, a guy I was there with got to meet her.

[@danielmark1871]

What track was this

[@sungkim742]

The G force must be incredible.

[@GeorgeTsiros]

average of 4.3 g

[@jimharding915]

In the time it takes to watch the stupid KZbin commercials ahead of this video, Brittany's already down the track, has her helmet off and is being congratulated! Go Team Force!

[@LauRoot892]

Harding

[@antiHUMANDesigns]

Zero to 545km/h in 3.6 seconds. There simply aren't words for this.

[@ricardobjj24]

338! It's only right that a Force does it

[@LauRoot892]

Uup

[@mrd.808]

Secret NOS bottle, lol

[@michaelhuling3588]

Whew.....now if she get the championship back!

[@LauRoot892]

Huling

[@scottrackley4457]

She come by it honest

[@LauRoot892]

Rack

[@xX_Gravity_Xx]

If you dropped an F-16 nose down at full afterburner, would it be able to accelerate that quickly? Also 338MPH... That speed broke my brain for like 5 minutes when I heard it. Good lord.

[@kdwaynec]

How fast would these missiles be going on a quarter nowadays? 370? The top ¼ mile speed I could find was 338.35 from 2017.

[@kevinrussell5099]

Very possible, if you consider that she's adding 40 mph in the final 340 feet it's reasonable to think another 30 mph wouldn't be out of reach, although the necessary change of gear ratio for the extra distance would figure in so maybe not.

[@scrapplepig]

What 10,000 horsepower does to a top fuel tire at launch. TOP FUEL ACCELERATION PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE * One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic-inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower (10,000 HP) than the first 5 rows at the Daytona 500. * Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1.2-1.5 gallons of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced. * A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to merely drive the dragster's supercharger. * With 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle. * At the stoichiometric 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitro methane the flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F. * Nitromethane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases. * Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder. * Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2 way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow. * If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with sufficient force to blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half. * Dragsters reach over 300 MPH before you have completed reading this sentence. * In order to exceed 300 MPH in 4.5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an average of over 4 G's. In order to reach 200 MPH well before half-track, the launch acce leration approaches 8 G's. * Top Fuel engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light! * Including the burnout, the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load. * The redline is actually quite high at 9500 RPM. * THE BOTTOM LINE: Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, & for once, NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimated $1,000 per second. 0 to 100 MPH in .8 seconds (the first 60 feet of the run) 0 to 200 MPH in 2.2 seconds (the first 350 feet of the run) 6 g-forces at the starting line (nothing accelerates faster on land) 6 negative g-forces upon deployment of twin ‘chutes at 300 MPH An NHRA Top Fuel Dragster accelerates quicker than any other land vehicle on earth . . quicker than a jet fighter plane . . . quicker than the space shuttle. The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.420 seconds for the quarter-mile (2004, Doug Kalitta). The top speed record is 337.58 MPH as measured over the last 66' of the run (2005, Tony Schumacher). Putting this all into perspective: You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter twin-turbo powered Corvette Z06. Over a mile up the road, a Top Fuel dragster is staged & ready to launch down a quarter-mile strip as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the 'Vette hard up through the gears and blast across the starting line & pass the dragster at an honest 200 MPH. The 'tree' goes green for both of you at that moment. The dragster launches & starts after you. You keep your foot down hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums & within 3 seconds the dragster catches & passes you. He beats you to the finish line, a quarter-mile away from where you just passed him. Think about it - from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200 MPH & not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320 foot long race! That's acceleration!

[@zachb1706]

Waiting for the Roadster SpaceX, any year now…

[@jordizulkarnaen6532]

Big balls of steel!or maybe another kind of steel.

[@balsumfractus]

She finally beat Courtney’s 338.85 mph record.........

[@MrMegacurie]

But she didn’t beat Robert Hight’s 339.86 mph

[@lowereastsideastrologist7769]

yo where my hos at!?

[@scottnelson1066]

That's cute! What's the men's record?

[@demarionabram1393]

That’s incredibly fast, especially for a thirty six year old woman who’s been driving top fuel dragsters for nine years

[@garyjackson3531]

She drove an A/Fuel dragster before this.

[@dbabb2484]

Idk what that’s even supposed to mean.

[@gunsandcommissions]

@@dbabb2484 Yeah, really weird comment. Perhaps English is not his first language,

[@demarionabram1393]

I know that, what I meant by that was, Brittany started driving top fuel in 2013 and it’s 2022 now, so therefore she been driving top fuel dragsters for nine years

[@kdwaynec]

@@demarionabram1393 If she started in '13, this would be her 10th season.

[@thaiho6242]

This rocket would give a Skyline 5 second head start on a 1/4 mile drag and still beat it.

[@davebrunette6394]

😎🤘☠️

[@LauRoot892]

Dave 😮

[@hoedemakerbart]

When people say pushrod engines make no power 😂

[@jlo13800]

Those look like a flying Tesla coil at night!

[@cameronshaw7730]

Do they still get a bonus point for setting a national record?

[@dnukem1722]

Another one hha

[@mflorest3]

Damn...too fast 😂

[@parkdw1]

320’ short of a real pass.

[@64maxpower]

Big deal, they shortened the track for them. The NFL should put the goal post on the 70 yard line

[@LauRoot892]

Hi 👋

[@alexclements5631]

Your missing the stats ! It’s like you saying if they only ran 700 feet they should be able to run 400mph , 425 mph in 500 feet ! These cars are running harder than ever before and accomplish it in just 1000 feet ! You would need to move the goal post another 25 yards to be comparable while having to gain more yardage.

[@64maxpower]

@alexclements5631 you're making a point worth respectfully debating. Only I'm not totally clear on what you're saying

[@kimnielsenthewordyvikingett159]

See gentlemen 👧 girls are better than guys!!! And extremely more easy on the eyes 👀!!! And usually smell a lot better showing you!!! Go Go Brittany!!! You go girl 👧!!!

[@the1bandit]

⅛ of a mile track... Where's the other ⅛ of it then!?!?

[@ShariaLawAllDay]

They should bring back the quarter mile for top fuel and nitro cars

[@jwiese100]

She's a chip off the old block for sure

[@WineHouse33]

Yawn! Slammin Sammy Miller ran 3.22 at 402MPH 30 years ago, and his run was an ACTUAL 1/4 measure. Unlike this useless record, and the less than noteworthy 1000ft measure.

[@waffles1894]

Not impressed could do that in my sleep Ha Rookie numbers right there

[@skiptowne5724]

You could do it in reverse. Don't sell yourself short.

[@NoleKsuMLbgtq]

Tesla Roadster will walk this dinosaur

[@carstenpfundt]

Probably not. Sorry to say

[@trwent]

I like Brittany Force better than Britney Spears. 😅

[@saagim123]

I've seen better

[@dvolonino]

Is it true that this is her daily driver?