Santa Pod Strip Records

1966 - 2002

Below is a list of all the Santa Pod strip records starting from the first meeting in 1966. This is entirely unofficial and has been compiled from the entries in the Trakbytes archive for the years up to 2002, and with the kind help of Andy Marrs from 2002 to 2019.

The strip record dropped by over eight seconds over the first 44 years, up to the end of the quarter mile era. Three and a half seconds were inevitably sliced off in the first 2 months when the first US visitors arrived, but since then only two other Americans have held the record. I should mention that I have continued with the Top Fuel achievements after Sammy Miller arrived on the scene and showed us what rocket power can do in 1978, otherwise the list would stop with his 3.58 outright record from 1984 that still stands and, I'm guessing, won't be beaten for some time.... Sammy's entries are highlighted in yellow. Dennis Priddle has the most entries on the list with a total of ten. It is a testiment to Dennis' dominance of Top Fuel in the early seventies that his nearest rivals of that era, Clive Skilton and Tony Densham, are next with three entries each. Second to Dennis overall though is Andy Carter with four entries over eight years in the 2000s. Also remarkable is the ten year gap before Peter Crane's 1976 record was broken.

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