drag racing

Surviving those rides has made Shumake the fastest LGBTQ+ driver in history and, at a lanky 6 feet 4, the tallest in drag racing as well.

Apa, who produced the film, is Wes Neal, a young man in the military who is first seen drag racing a motorcycle.

In drag racing, Brittany Force, history’s fastest driver, male or female, with a speed of 338.48 mph in 2022, has won two of the last seven national championships in the NHRA’s most prestigious category, top fuel.

Paula Murphy gained attention in the 1960s and ’70s when she set records for women in drag racing, in stock car racing, in U.S. transcontinental driving, on a closed-course track and on the Bonneville Salt Flats, the Utah staging ground where land speed records were broken.

While the department appears to have caught up in 2023 — mostly because fewer people were speeding — Seattle is planning to double the number of cameras in school zones and install cameras on streets with a history of illegal drag racing.