On Sunday afternoon the 39-year-old Westpac business analyst and mother of two nailed the figures she wanted with a scorching run down the Meremere quarter-mile at 6.612secs and 206.42mph (332.2km/h) through the finish line speed trap.
"I never thought it would take five years but in the end it turned out to be one of the best days of my life," she said.
"It was 12 years ago at this same meeting that I got my racing licence and during the day I got to meet Faye Grant's husband.
"He hadn't been to the drags for years but he wanted to come and meet me and he told us some stories about the old days."
It was a successful weekend for the team. On Saturday Raggett also won the Competition eliminator title as March's rain-interrupted IHRA Nationals were completed.
During Sunday's Bay Rodders' Nostalgia Drags event she posted 6.89s/202mph and 6.79s/205mph passes before the record-breaking run.
"Later on Sunday afternoon the conditions were ideal. There was plenty of traction, there was good heat in the track and the air temperature was just cooling off a bit," Raggett said.
The record quest began in the 2009-10 season after a successful campaign in the family's Flamin' Evil '32 Ford roadster - a car in which her CC/Altered national class record remains unbeaten from 2008.
The next step was Evil II , a longer, lighter chassis with a lower '27 Ford T bodystyle.
The engine made the switch from the original car fitted with a bigger supercharger and the move was made into the BB/Altered class. The performance stepped up quickly with 6.770secs/196.5mph achieved in January 2010.
Since then it's been a quest for the last fractions with changes to specification meaning some steps backwards before going forward.
The biggest change was a decision to abandon supercharging and switch to a twin turbo combination and move to the AA/Altered class.
"The turbos make a different kind of power and you have to use some different driving techniques," Raggett says.
