Tasca isn’t wrong. NHRA’s Top Fuel and Funny Car drivers routinely exceed 330 mph – and both Tasca and Prock are the only Funny Car drivers in NHRA history to eclipse 341 mph. By comparison ...

He is the first Funny Car driver to break the four-second barrier (3.995-second run in 2011) and 3.80 seconds (3.799 in 2015) and to reach 330 mph (2015) and 335 mph (2016) at 1,000 feet.

Of all the professional drag racers on the National Hot Rod Association’s roster, perhaps the most unlikely is Alexis DeJoria, who has driven over 330 mph in her nitro-burning, 12,000-horsepower Funny ...