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Rocket Dragster racing is a form of Drag Racing
Drag racing

Drag racing is a competition in which vehicles compete to be the first to cross a set finish line, usually from a dead stop, and in a straight line....
 usually using High test peroxide
High test peroxide

High test peroxide or HTP is a high concentration solution of hydrogen peroxide, with the remainder predominantly made up of water. In contact with a catalyst it decomposes into a high temperature mixture of steam and oxygen, with no remaining water....
 rocket
Rocket

A rocket or rocket vehicle is a missile, aircraft or other vehicle which obtains thrust by the Reaction of the rocket to the ejection of fast moving fluid exhaust from a rocket engine....
 engines.

Kitty O'Neil
Kitty O'Neil

Kitty O'Neil is a former stuntwoman and racer noted for a handful of exceptional accomplishments, despite becoming deaf when she was four months old....
 in 1977 recorded the quickest quarter mile elapsed time of 3.22 seconds at 396 mph and made a quarter mile run with a top speed of 412 mph. This is in excess of the performance of more familiar Piston Engined
Reciprocating engine

A reciprocating engine, also often known as a piston engine, is a heat engine that uses one or more Reciprocating motion pistons to convert pressure into a Circular motion....
 dragsters.

A different type of rocket propulsion uses hybrid rockets using Nitrous Oxide as the oxidant such as the British Rocket Dragster, 'laffin-gas'.






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Rocket Dragster racing is a form of Drag Racing
Drag racing

Drag racing is a competition in which vehicles compete to be the first to cross a set finish line, usually from a dead stop, and in a straight line....
 usually using High test peroxide
High test peroxide

High test peroxide or HTP is a high concentration solution of hydrogen peroxide, with the remainder predominantly made up of water. In contact with a catalyst it decomposes into a high temperature mixture of steam and oxygen, with no remaining water....
 rocket
Rocket

A rocket or rocket vehicle is a missile, aircraft or other vehicle which obtains thrust by the Reaction of the rocket to the ejection of fast moving fluid exhaust from a rocket engine....
 engines.

Kitty O'Neil
Kitty O'Neil

Kitty O'Neil is a former stuntwoman and racer noted for a handful of exceptional accomplishments, despite becoming deaf when she was four months old....
 in 1977 recorded the quickest quarter mile elapsed time of 3.22 seconds at 396 mph and made a quarter mile run with a top speed of 412 mph. This is in excess of the performance of more familiar Piston Engined
Reciprocating engine

A reciprocating engine, also often known as a piston engine, is a heat engine that uses one or more Reciprocating motion pistons to convert pressure into a Circular motion....
 dragsters.

A different type of rocket propulsion uses hybrid rockets using Nitrous Oxide as the oxidant such as the British Rocket Dragster, 'laffin-gas'. However, there are significant safety concerns regarding this method after several explosions at Santa Pod Raceway
Santa Pod Raceway

Santa Pod Raceway, in England, founded in 1966, is Europe's first permanent drag racing venue. It was built on a disused World War II American air base, RAF Podington, once used by the 92nd Bomber Group, which is in Bedfordshire, although the track has a Northamptonshire post code....
, one of which propelled an engine component into a public viewing area at high velocity.

Rocket dragsters are banned in most events for safety reasons, mostly due to their very high performance. However, they continue to run at several European venues.

See also

Jet dragster
Jet dragster

A Jet Dragster is a drag racing car propelled by a jet engine.In 2006, while filming an episode for the series Top Gear , presenter and driver Richard Hammond was critically injured in a crash with the jet dragster, Vampire , that he was piloting....