Some cars such as
Green Monster and
Vampire raced as dragsters (as well as also achieving or attempting land speed records). In 2006, while filming an episode for the series
Top Gear, presenter and driver
Richard Hammond was critically injured in a crash with the jet dragster, Vampire, that he was piloting. More modern jet dragsters such as Robert Albertson's "Blazing Angel" are capable of reaching over in a quarter of a mile. Most of these modern cars are powered by the
Pratt & Whitney J60 or the
General Electric J85 jet engine. ==See also==