Matt Hagan, the cattle farmer from Christiansburg, VA, no longer wears the high speed badge of 335 mph.
When fellow Funny Car racer Robert Hight upped Hagan’s signature showcase speed to 337 mph during qualifying at Heartland Park Topeka last week, the cowboy hat and boot wearing two-time world champion hit an even more impressive stride.
Hagan raced down the runway of high horsepower fashion with the fastest run in drag racing history, 338.85 mph.
Equally impressive, Hagan also garnered the quickest elapsed time in NHRA Funny Car history with a 3.802-second time pass.
Hagan admitted, “This one actually had a lot of really fast shaft early and almost didn’t make it.