Dragster and Funny Car Pictures

Brandon Bernstein, of Lake Forest, Calif., driving the Budweiser top fuel dragster, qualifies No. 1 with a 4.516 second-pass at 320.58mph pass at the NHRA Spring Nationals at Houston Raceway Park in Baytown, Texas.

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Mike Ashley of Melville, N.Y., and his Torco Racing Fuels Dodge Charger win the Funny Car event at the 19th annual O'Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals at Heartland Park Topeka in Topeka, Kan.,with a time of 4.896 seconds at a speed of 310.7mph Ashley defeated Jim Head in the final round of the NHRA POWERade series event.

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Tony Schumacher and his US Army dragster does a burn out during Top Fuel qualifiers at the 7th annual ACDelco Las Vegas Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2007. Schumacher, from Long Grove, Ill., ran the quarter mile in 4.482 seconds at 327.59 mph to qialify for the top stop.

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Mike Ashley of Melville, N.Y., and his Torco Dodge Charger earned the number one qualifying spot in Funny Car at the 27th annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals at Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Ga., with a time of 4.704 seconds at a speed of 331.04mph.

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Brandon Bernstein of Lake Forest, Calif., and his Budweiser/Lucas Oil dragster slow after qualifying No. 1 in Top Fuel at the 48th annual Checker Schuck's Kragen NHRA Nationals at Firebird International Raceway in Chandler, Ariz., with a time of 4.515 seconds at a speed of 330.31mph.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - A Top Fuel Dragster in action during the Australian Nitro Championships at the Western Sydney International Dragway.

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Shane Baxter of Australia in action during the Competition Dragster section of the Winternationals Drag Racing at Willowbank Raceway in Ipswich, Australia.

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General view of a top fuel dragster during the Bonneville Speedweeks at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Bonneville, Utah.

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Ashley Force, driver of the Castrol GTX funny car does a burn out during qualifying for the NHRA Carolinas Nationals at the Zmax Dragway in Concord, North Carolina last year.

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The crew of the Chevrolet Impalla funny car driven by Tony Pedregon goes to work before his run during qualifying for the NHRA Carolinas Nationals at the Zmax Dragway in Concord, North Carolina.

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