TOP ALCOHOL DRAGSTER and TOP ALCOHOL FUNNY CAR

TAD gets the same wing area clarification as TF with the same 1,500 square inch maximum.

The NHRA has prohibited, in virtually every category, the relatively ancient practice of artificially heating or cooling fuel.

TAD chassis will be required to utilize the same "helmet shroud" around the rear of the rollcage as mandated on TF cars after Darrell Russell's 2004 fatal crash.

A new TAFC revision should make for some spectacular photo opportunities as alky floppers with burst panels in the rear of the intake manifold must now have four-inch-minimum-diameter ducting of .024-inch steel or .032-inch aluminum installed to relieve burst pressure from the burst-panel vicinity through the firewall and out the side window.

COMPETITION ELIMINATOR

The last bastion of free-thinking sportsman racers will now include several new classes, many of which are designed to draw currently popular combinations previously not legal for NHRA competition into the POWERade/Lucas Oil fray.

Front-engined digger fans will enjoy the addition of B/Nostalgia Dragster, designed for cars with OEM cast-iron Hemi, 23-degree Chevy, or OEM Ford cylinder heads" at "the same weight-break and minimum-weight requirements of the current A/ND class.

An attempt to pull crossover entries from the NHRA Xplod Sport Compact Series is made clear with the addition of CC/Altered Turbocharged, for six-cylinder, four-valve turbocharged engines based on a factor of 13.4 or more pounds per cubic inch (of which the are many), and DD/Altered Turbocharged, for four-cylinder, four-valve engines based on a factor of 16.4 or more pounds per cubic inch (of which there are very, very few). Although the advance rules release doesn't state that these classes are for Rear-Wheel-Drive machines only (which they most certainly are), the classes are reserved for full-bodied passenger cars.

If you've been waiting to see Outlaw 10.5 cars at NHRA National Events, then you'll be elated to see the new AA/Super Modified class. Its description, which notes Over the last several years, full-bodied, centrifugal-supercharged cars have been growing in popularity, certainly brings to mind any number of "ten-wide" association rules, including the new NHRA regulations of full-bodied, centrifugal-supercharged cars based on a six-pounds-per-cubic-inch format with a minimum weight of 2,700 pounds.