THE HISTORIC 1ST FUEL ALTERED 4 SECOND AND 300 MPH 1/4 MILE RUNS BY RICHARD HARTMAN AND ALL-TIME SPEED OF 304.59 MPH BY KEBIN KINSLEY. THIS IS A SEGMENT FROM "FUNNY CAR CHAOS - The Movie" NitroAmerica.com
I just want to say... I was present for Ron Fassel's 286mph pass. That was my favorite AA/Fuel Altered growing up. Such a badass machine and a really cool guy.
Blown nitro roar and cackle..love it. However cool as the modern AA/Fuel Altereds are; really they are just Funny Cars without the full bodies. Gotta have some serious cojones to drive those things though.
Kebin Kinsley driving the War Wagon. Kebin is the most versatile driver there is. He has raced Top Fuel dragster , Fuel Funny Car , Fuel Altered’s , Top Fuel Boats , Alcohol Finny Car , Top Fuel Go Carts , Fuel powered grocery carts. Just kidding about the last two.
Last I remember, in the '80s, Fuel Altereds were 245 MPH "Pedal cars" snorting down the track going every which-way. Jaw dropping to see them in the 4's over 300.
I was lucky enough to see the Alaskan grizzly run the fifth fastest time ever, match racing Ron Fassel in the Pepsi altered and also racing Ricky Ruiz I the Nevada Rattler! Priceless!😉👍
I really do hope that these Alcohol burning AA/ Fuel Alters do come back permanently to NHRA, and not just for exhibition. They are a blast to watch especially at night time! 👍 ........(Maybe they can even run them on Nitro!) 😮
I don't know how these Fuel Altered drivers manage to fit their balls in such little cars. I figure that as the cars have got faster the balls have got bigger and that's why the cars are a little bigger so they can accommodate them.
Going to 1,000 feet stopped me from going to drags..how can we compare our childhood heroes to today's heroes with 2 totally different races...yeah I know they got faster so extend the shut down area..im just not interested in 1,000 or 1/8 mile..
6:10 the burnout shutdown sends a harmonic sinewave through the car frame with the steer wheels oscillating left/right. That seems troublesome/worrisome .
Weenie would have been happy to see this... one of the things that his life revolved around was racing.. the AA/FA record was something he was proud of... Congrats guys...
NHRA has lost me and others. It like NASCAR is too P/C and sanitized. No more 1/4 mile, no more AA, no more Fuel Altereds.....I will probably never go to another of either one.
Altered from a bracket car, I'm guessing? Altered from past seasons AA/FC losers, maybe? Try calling this class something else because these are bespoke race cars and ain't altered from something else. Stop shitting on drag racing history.