For a dragster, one team made a continuously variable type of this; in cars they come in automatic & manual
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snowmobile engine and continuously variable transmission (CVT),... [DOC] [TLE] Electric Drag Racing At Brigham Young University | AltEnergyMag [PAR] The car accelerated to 69.57 miles per hour in the first 1/8th of a mile and finished 
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