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The road to 340 mph
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The road to 340 mph
While speed gains in Top Fuel’s early days were quick and often, and barriers fell like 10 pins, it’s been a long road to Brittany Force’s barrier-breaking 341.59-mph pass in Friday qualifying at the American Rebel Light NHRA 4-Wide Nationals.
While speed gains in Top Fuel’s early days were quick and often, and barriers fell like 10 pins, it’s been a long road to Brittany Force’s barrier-breaking 341.59-mph pass in Friday qualifying at the American Rebel Light NHRA 4-Wide Nationals.
While it took just three years for Joe Amato to go from breaking the 260-mph barrier in 1984 to cracking the 280-mph barrier in 1987, it took 26 years to go from Tony Schumacher’s class-first 330-mph run in Phoenix in 1999 (and 20 years from Schumacher’s 335 in Houston in 2005) to Force’s blast Friday night.
Here's a look at the barrier breakers from 200 mph to 341 mph.
| Speed | Driver | Location | Date |
201.34 | Don Garlits | Great Meadows, N.J. | August 1964 |
212.76 | Tommy Allen | Carlsbad, Calif. | April 1966 |
221.12 | John Mulligan | Carlsbad, Calif. | October 1966 |
230.76 | Jerry Ruth | Pomona, Calif. | February 1968 |
243.90 | Don Garlits | Gainesville, Fla. | March 1972 |
250.69 | Don Garlits | Ontario, Calif. | October 1975 |
262.39 | Joe Amato | Gainesville, Fla. | March 1984 |
272.56 | Don Garlits | Gainesville, Fla. | March 1986 |
282.13 | Joe Amato | Indianapolis | September 1987 |
291.54 | Connie Kalitta | Pomona, Calif. | February 1989 |
301.70 | Kenny Bernstein | Gainesville, Fla. | March 1992 |
314.46 | Kenny Bernstein | Pomona, Calif. | October 1994 |
321.77 | Cory McClenathan | Dallas | October 1997 |
330.23 | Tony Schumacher | Phoenix | February 1999 |
335.32 | Tony Schumacher | Houston | April 2005 |
341.59 | Brittany Force | Charlotte, N.C. | April 2025 |