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Drag Avenue is your opportunity to get up close to some incredible vehicles and their teams, to learn their stories and to get a feel for what this great racing tradition is all about – outright acceleration!
For perspective a Bugatti Tourbillon (hybrid internal combustion engine) with an 8.3L V16 engine paired with 3 electric motors can accelerate from 0-60 mph in 2.0 seconds and costs around £4 million.
One of our dragsters can accelerate from 0 to 100 mph in 1 second! ONE SECOND TO 100MPH!
Featuring daily fire-ups of these amazing cars and bikes (be warned, it will get loud).
Take a look at what’s lining up on Drag Avenue this year. Every car and bike here has a story, and the teams behind them will be on hand all weekend to share it.
Take a look at what’s lining up on Drag Avenue this year. Every car and bike here has a story, and the teams behind them will be on hand all weekend to share it.
Santa Pod Raceway is bringing a fun free-to-enter competition to Drag Avenue, made for budding young racers aged 7 to 14.
Inside the Junior Dragster marquee, young competitors take a seat in a real junior dragster and test their reaction skills against the Christmas Tree starting lights. Each entrant gets three attempts to record their fastest reaction time.
The competitor with the quickest reaction time across the weekend wins an unforgettable day at Santa Pod Raceway, including the chance to drive a junior dragster on the famous dragstrip. Full tuition and all necessary safety equipment will be provided.
Competition Details
Open daily from 10:00am to 5:00pm
Three attempts per entrant
Free to enter
Ages 7 to 14 only
In the event of a perfect light (a 0.000 reaction time), a further attempt will be recorded as a tie-breaker.
A live scoreboard showing the event’s fastest reaction times will run throughout the weekend, and the winner will be contacted directly after the event by phone or email.
Think you’ve got what it takes? Head to Santa Pod Raceway in Drag Avenue and give it a go. Lights on, foot down, fastest reaction wins.
Dragsters can only be fully appreciated when they’re on the move – the noise, the smell and the brute power all on display, and we have a very special line-up of vehicles taking part in the Track Shows at CarFest this year.
Santa Pod Raceway is bringing a fun free-to-enter competition to Drag Avenue, made for budding young racers aged 7 to 14.
Inside the Junior Dragster marquee, young competitors take a seat in a real junior dragster and test their reaction skills against the Christmas Tree starting lights. Each entrant gets three attempts to record their fastest reaction time.
The competitor with the quickest reaction time across the weekend wins an unforgettable day at Santa Pod Raceway, including the chance to drive a junior dragster on the famous dragstrip. Full tuition and all necessary safety equipment will be provided.
Competition Details
Open daily from 10:00am to 5:00pm
Three attempts per entrant
Free to enter
Ages 7 to 14 only
In the event of a perfect light (a 0.000 reaction time), a further attempt will be recorded as a tie-breaker.
A live scoreboard showing the event’s fastest reaction times will run throughout the weekend, and the winner will be contacted directly after the event by phone or email.
Think you’ve got what it takes? Head to Santa Pod Raceway in Drag Avenue and give it a go. Lights on, foot down, fastest reaction wins.
Dragsters can only be fully appreciated when they’re on the move – the noise, the smell and the brute power all on display, and we have a very special line-up of vehicles taking part in the Track Shows at CarFest this year.
Honda
Civic
1991
8.83 sec @ 167 mph
1,800cc
Europe's first 8 second Civic D Series over the quarter mile.
Steam Rocket Bike
Unique
Project started in 2012
5.45 sec @ 195.45 mph for the ¼ mile // 3.23 sec @ 212.95 mph for the 1/8 mile
Uses a pressure vessel!
The fastest 2-wheeled vehicle in the world, and the greenest as powered purely by steam
Fiat
Topolino
1936
7.73 sec @172.41mph
8,964cc V8
It’s fair to say this car is much faster than the original top speed of 53mph!
Chevrolet
S10 truck
1990's
6.96 sec @ 195.52mph
9,259cc V8
This is a former NHRA Pro Stock truck
Chevrolet
Camaro SS
1969
10.86 sec @128mph
7,500cc
This car is called ‘Bruce’ after the shark in Disney’s ‘Finding Nemo’
Dragster
Slingshot
Built in 2010
8.00 sec @160+mph
6,276cc V8
Replicating the slingshot dragsters that used to race in the 1960’s this car has been racing for over 30 years!
Junior Dragster
Bandit 1
2005
7.63 sec @85mph over the 1/8th mile
490cc
Harley (the driver) now drives his dad’s slingshot Dragster. These dragsters can accelerate faster from a standing start than modern-day sports cars
Junior Dragster
Bandit Bomb
2005
9.47sec @ 66mph
490cc
Ada (the driver) is 14 years old and already in her 6th racing season
Suzuki
GSXR1000
2003
9.24 sec @140mph+
1,000cc
Former Junior Dragster racer, now winning on 2 wheels
Chevrolet
Sedan
1955
9.79sec @113.4mph
6,555cc V8
Very well known for spectacular wheel stands!
Ford
Popular
1950's
6.90 sec @ 200mph
10,350cc V8
Now racing in the Top Fuel class, the Formula 1 of drag racing, where speeds exceed 330mph over the 1000 ft race. For safety this class does not race over a quarter mile due to the incredible speeds
Toyota
Camry
2013
4.42sec @ 288.06 mph over 1,000 ft
8,194cc V8
Over 10,000 hp and 0-100 mph in 1 second! ONE SECOND TO 100MPH!
Chevrolet
Camaro
1970
5.766 sec @ 240mph
7,489cc V8
European record holding Nostalgia Funny Car @ 5.766 seconds.
Porsche
924
1977
6.42 sec @ 220 mph
3,000cc
The quickest, fastest & most powerful ‘import’ race-car in the UK

Mercury
Comet
1964
Standing Quarter Mile in 10.80sec @ 123 mph
7,000cc V8
This car appeared in ‘Fast X’, the last Fast & Furious movie

Chevrolet
Bel Air
1957
Standing Quarter Mile in 11.12sec @ 121 mph
8,100cc V8
A full steel car with the original 1957 interior and a much bigger engine

Fordsun
Van
1953
Standing Quarter Mile in 8.2 sec @ 175 mph
9,800cc V8
This van is street legal and was built by the driver. It has won best appearing car at the annual prestigious Drag Racing awards ceremony

Willys
Coupe
1941
Standing Quarter Mile in 9.7sec @ 137 mph
8,100cc V8 producing 850 bhp
this car is known as ‘Trigger’s Broom’ because over the number of changes made over the last 30 years (ask a parent)

Bentley
Continental GT
2007
Standing Quarter Mile in 7.2sec @ 206.5 mph
10,300cc V8 >3,000 bhp
The quickest and fastest street legal Bentley in the world!

Chevrolet
Camaro
1967
Standing Quarter Mile in 8.94 sec @ 156 mph
10,357cc V8
From 0-80mph this car is usually doing a wheelie and you can only see sky through the windscreen

Chevrolet
Chevelle
1968
Standing Quarter Mile in 8.02sec @ 176 mph
7,000cc Twin Turbo V8
Out of the factory this car made just 200hp, it now makes 2,000hp!











