As you’d expect, it’s really quite dramatic and er, shall we say, not in line with the sensibilities of those who normally take part in conversations about alternative fuels. Nitro Madness at Texas Motorplex is the venue and this dragster is quite unlike anything we’ve seen, rolling coal to the roar of a heavily turbocharged straight-six. By rolling coal, we mean chuffing some seriously aggressive fumes directly up into the sky, out of the waste gate. And that’s only while it’s brake boosting. Once it leaves? It’s a veritable smokescreen. Then we have the jet dragster, which is as it says on the tin, a jet engine strapped to a drag racer. They line up and face off in a battle of the world’s craziest dragsters. The result is surprisingly close…
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