Driving a Top Fuel dragster is still a blur for Hillary Will, even as she enters her third season. At Pomona, things got real blurry for the former Top Alcohol Dragster standout. 

In a qualifying run Saturday, Will became the fastest female driver in the history of NHRA drag racing with the fifth fastest (tie) lap down the quarter-mile for any gender with an amazing speed of 334.65 mph. The booming speed was also the fastest of the event at the Winternationals.

Driving a Top Fuel dragster is still a blur for Hillary Will, even as she enters her third season. At Pomona, things got real blurry for the former Top Alcohol Dragster standout. 

In a qualifying run Saturday, Will became the fastest female driver in the history of NHRA drag racing with the fifth fastest (tie) lap down the quarter-mile for any gender with an amazing speed of 334.65 mph. The booming speed was also the fastest of the event at the Winternationals.

“That’s a great accomplishment, but all the credit goes to my KB Racing, LLC team,” Will, a 27-year old native of Fortuna, Calif., said. “I hope that the record will inspire other young women who want to race to work hard and pursue their dreams and try to take that record away from me.”

A former standout in the Top Alcohol Dragster class, Will moved up to the quickest and fastest NHRA professional class, Top Fuel, in 2006 behind the wheel of a newly formed team owned by Las Vegas businessman Ken Black and managed by Kalitta Motorsports, the multi-car team founded and owned by drag racing icon Connie “the Bounty Hunter” Kalitta. She won her first Top Fuel event trophy in Norwalk (IHRA) in her rookie season and made her first NHRA final-round appearance in Memphis. She finished the season in tenth place in Top Fuel championship points in ‘06.