Couldn't of explained it better😂 i grew up near Cordova il. Where they hold the world series of drag racing and you can literally stand 10-15 feet from the starting line nothing can explaine the feeling you get standing that close to top fuel
I used to work at pbir here in Florida. Used to start or work the burnout box for all the nhra top fuel rails and funny cars when they would come test in the off season. The experience and feeling never got old.
+Cody King If you are standing there..its actually kinda freaky . I have been to Brainerd Nationals many times, and its amazing. It feels like a bomb exploding when they blurp the throttle.
Yeah, above 7,000hp levels of power. These engines at full tilt put out over 155 decibels of sound pressure that punches you square in the chest.. You don't hear these beasts with your ears, you hear them with your bones.
i love how everyone is gathered around like oooooh that's cool , then he blips the throttle and suddenly Depend Incontinence pants have another 50 new customers 😂😂
RCDude haha try me, I’ve been drag racing all my life bud, you dumbasses can’t compare a top fuel machine to a fucking bike haha that’s like trying to compare a crop duster to a fighter jet, and yes I do know what I’m talking about, if you have questions ask me, I’ll answer them
For those of you who have never been to one of these races before It is truly an earth shaking experience! As awesome as this vid is you have to go to one of these at least once. Even in the stands a hundred feet away these rockets wreck your senses at the hit of the throttle. First time I went to one of these my beer vibrated off the bleacher!!! for those of you who know db numbers these cars put out about 155 to 160db!!!! That's louder than a fighter jet taking off standing 75 feet away!!!
I like how you can tell exactly who is on the crew, and who is just a spectator at 1:28 when the driver actually hits the gas... Entire crowd almost jumps out of their skin, but none of the crew even flinch. Look at the woman in the black shirt sitting in the background in the bus door on the right. Doesn't even bat an eye! Edit: Thats the most I've replayed a video in recent memory. Totally worth it to keep looping it and watch a different person each time, entertaining stuff! Everyone jumped, but the reactions afterwards are the best. Some people were giggling like kids on Christmas with what they just experienced, some almost look like they can't comprehend what just happened, others are looking around like they are expecting some authority figure to shut it down, and some are just looking for any possible way to get themselves away from the dragster.
And that's just at idol and a couple of blips. Now Imagine how loud it is under load at wide open throttle. Just a peek and food for thought in case your wondering how brutal these things really are.
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This never gets old! Im supposed to sleep for work in the morning but nope! I'm sitting here watching people jump lol Man nothing beats a nitro warm up
90% just hear "noise" 9% hear noise and talk about pollution 1% really feels this unreal power of that engine and knows what it's able to do. compared to a daily driven car, ehh sorry, you can't compare them... i saw soda-bottles "exploding" when they pass, the air gets thin when they inhale and the earth starts shaking... you got to luv it... i do... SO MUCH INSTANT POWER
I tried standing 50 meters behind one of these when they throttled the engine, without wearing ear protection (fucking stupid when i think back). Holy shit, i thought i was going deaf for a second, it just got louder and louder and suddenly something popped and all sounds turned to static/noise/wind. I was lucky that i made it out with only a small hearing loss and a head ache. I'm fine now though, so don't worry about me. Take this as a warning, if you are going to one of these events; wear ear protection.
+Rasmus Bottolfsen one of the best feelings in life is taking my friends to a niteo event and sitting maybe 30m from the start line kinda behind it and not giving them any idea whats coming so for the first run i dont wear plugs. some of the faces that i get are amazing
+Rasmus Bottolfsen one of the best feelings in life is taking my friends to a niteo event and sitting maybe 30m from the start line kinda behind it and not giving them any idea whats coming so for the first run i dont wear plugs. some of the faces that i get are amazing
Ben Snyder i did to , i love it , i been there (well in the USA) , and as "rob a" said , you get two of these on a good 300mph pass and you feel it push in on your chest!
Throttle whacks to set the clutch are an experience that are not to be believed unless witnessed live and up close. This video does a good job showing just that !!! After I met my wife-to-be in 1988, I took her to Gainesville for the Gatornationals. We were able to stand about 10-12 feet away from a TF performing the warm-up and driveline check, and she didn't cover her ears or even flinch when they blipped the throttle. I thought right then: "This is the girl for me !!!"
I had the same reaction the first time I went to the U.S. Nationals with my dad. I was sitting in Terry McMillans pit. And a funny car across from us started up that made me jump.
Sonic booms! Just LOVE how brutal top fuel is! People have no clue JUST how loud these things are and just how much power is made!! Space shuttle has nothing on top fuel cars!
+JoeIsCrazyWillman Where that cam was is about as close as I like to get. I love the 1st time macho dudes who get close. They then choke on the fumes and shit themselves on the blips.
Top fuel is not louder than a space shuttle launch, not even close. A dragster at full throttle is 150dB, which is enough to cause pain and permanent hearing loss. When space shuttles launched, the pad saw sound levels of 215dB, which would have been lethal to anyone besides the astronauts protected inside the crew cabin.
See the guy in the black singlet and black pants covered in cartoons, I'm so fucking tough the world owes me a favor, REV fuck!! what was that, maybe my Harley isn't that great after all. LOL
earplugs wont do shit, trust me. it will still catch you off guard when the ground and your whole body decides to have a mini earthquake, and you will spaz lol.
They can also do that to verify clutch and management system works as it should when driver slams the throttle wide open. It can be verified from datalogging after the warmup.
@@juggis you'd have to run the full program. Not what's happening here. The Butterflies are manually cracked open on the Injector Hat not the pedal. Management system is started by Wide open throttle and button being depressed under pedal.
This video doesn’t do any justice. I highly encourage anyone who hasn’t been to a top fuel event to go!!! It’s earth shattering kidney crushing horsepower. Total insanity. Truly an experience you will never forget
She the chick in the trailer sitting down in the doorway behind the whaap aah she’s like what what happened what fell doesn’t even budge lmao everyone else ... i’m going to die omg
If you have never heard and felt one of these I'll give you a tip. Watch the window on the truck...He he he!! gives me chills just watching it. Watch the flags my Nitro friends, Watch the flags.
Watch the guy in the blue shirt and the canvas hat kind of in the middle his feet come off the ground twice LMFAO My stomach hurts from laughing so hard.............................................
To anyone who hasn't seen it in person, it's an experience like no other! There's no audio/video on earth that can do it justice. I'd say the closest comparison would be like throwing sticks of TNT 10 feet in front of you and having it go off. (disclaimer: do not do that)
Is anybody else laughing hard as i am at the 2 guys with ponytails in all black, that were walking around trying to look tough. Then they jump harder than most of the other people, including the old lady in the blue.
How is guys having pony tails wearing black mean they're trying to look tough? That's just their style. There were other people that jumped way harder.
I know I'm 4 years late to the party, but around 1:22 start watching the passenger window in the rig. They almost break it... if it had a scratch on it, it might have shattered.
I miss this so much. 49 now. My dad took me to the NHRA races all the time when I was a kid. Englishtown NJ. I met so many drivers and I got their autographs. Dan Pastarini, Don Garlits, Bob Glidden, John Force, Gary Ormsby to name a few. Being in the pits though like these people are when these things fire up is a whole new life experience you will never forget lol. Eyes burn from the fumes, your ears are gone 🤣 and when that engine revs like that, the little burst they do. It feels like the ground beneath you disappears.
I wonder if the hearing aid manufacturers have access to facial recognition because they can target all the people in this video with their ads. After all, they are all going to need hearing aids after this.
Nathan McDonald, In the States the NHRA old schools call it "whacken the throttle". Only one team still does it. And as for the "sounds like gun shot", I was in the US Marine Corps was a anti-tank assault specialist, fired the 106mm Recoilless Rifle and many other firearms. Whacken the throttle is the closest thing to the 106, but not quit. No worries, liked your comment mate, I've been to your continent (AUS) 4 time, wish you all wouldn't have voted out your guns, there a bunch of fun, and ain't nobody brave enough to brake in my home! Wish you well, God Speed and God Bless,,,,
Sadly, as time goes by the racers 'blips' the throttle during the warm-up less and less. And to make matters worse they are down to using only 85% nitro max. It would be better for the NHRA to mandate that the racers to run straight nitro and to implement restrictions on the engines that 'de-tune' them in order to maintain the current cost/risk of running the engines. It would be easy to run higher nitro % and yet at the same time decrease cost/breakage. Yes, performance times and speeds would suffer but who cares! We want to hear and feel the 'snap-crackle-pop' of nitro foremost and see performance secondary to that. I think it would be cool for the NHRA to add a 'wild-man Outlaw' nitro class. Such a class would run de-tuned fuel cars that must use 3 speed manual shift transmissions. In other words. 'peddle fest' machines! Heck, they would only be going 180 mph at 1000'!!! Another benefit to that is that the smaller budget racer could race heads up with the 'Dixons and Forces'.
I remember when I was first time in Alastaro circuit, and two top fuel dragsters left at the same time. The slight earthquake in the spectators point was insane feeling.
I'm just happy to find one where the microphone didn't shit itself.
everyone's like "this is cool" then after the throttle wack they turn "oh hell no"
Noah Stuart lmfao
Noah Stuart they werent ready
Brenton Webb After the throttle hits they scattered. I’m guessing to find a restroom!! 😂
Rookies
Shockwave!!! 😆
Standing at the starting line when one of these launches will knock the soul out of you for about 3 seconds. Its fantastic.
Couldn't of explained it better😂 i grew up near Cordova il. Where they hold the world series of drag racing and you can literally stand 10-15 feet from the starting line nothing can explaine the feeling you get standing that close to top fuel
Time just stops until they cross that line.
It will nick the soul out of you until the race is over😂
I used to work at pbir here in Florida. Used to start or work the burnout box for all the nhra top fuel rails and funny cars when they would come test in the off season. The experience and feeling never got old.
@@buba2isatosa haha I lived 1/2 mile from Bristol dragwsy thunder valley
That is utterly insane power. Just wow. Barely blipping the throttle, and it's like a fucking bomb going off. That is amazing.
+Cody King If you are standing there..its actually kinda freaky . I have been to Brainerd Nationals many times, and its amazing. It feels like a bomb exploding when they blurp the throttle.
Yeah, above 7,000hp levels of power. These engines at full tilt put out over 155 decibels of sound pressure that punches you square in the chest.. You don't hear these beasts with your ears, you hear them with your bones.
+Brandon Ryan Couldn't have put it better, the shockwaves off these things are monstrous.
Absolutely right, it is a real punch in the chest, an experience like no other!
Which is what dragracing is really - a controlled explosion..
I feel bad for those who have never been thru this experience in person
whenever anyone tries to tell me about drag racing all I have to say is : I grew up in Pomona, I lived the NHRA lol
I did 3 hours ago
I tell my best friends this every year!
i would go to one but i swear where i live in canada there isn’t a track for couple hundred km
I went to Texas Motorplex last month... Seen a lot a drag racing in Europe, can't compare it to these monsters. Love em.
Gasoline is for washing. Alcohol is for drinking. Nitro is for racing. Yeah baby.
Don "Big Daddy" Garlits rules. B)
Bleach is for drinking, not cleaning
@Skittish horse shit!
😅garic
i love how everyone is gathered around like oooooh that's cool , then he blips the throttle and suddenly Depend Incontinence pants have another 50 new customers 😂😂
These things will turn the hells angels into girl scouts real quick lol
84340ram no your talking about the wrong vehicle bud haha go lookup the drag bikes
jackk556 What? Drag bikes are nothing compared to these demonic machines. These things practically cause earthquakes and zip down the line.
Haha hilarious.
@@jackk5562 You don't know what you're talking about LMAO
RCDude haha try me, I’ve been drag racing all my life bud, you dumbasses can’t compare a top fuel machine to a fucking bike haha that’s like trying to compare a crop duster to a fighter jet, and yes I do know what I’m talking about, if you have questions ask me, I’ll answer them
For those of you who have never been to one of these races before It is truly an earth shaking experience! As awesome as this vid is you have to go to one of these at least once. Even in the stands a hundred feet away these rockets wreck your senses at the hit of the throttle. First time I went to one of these my beer vibrated off the bleacher!!! for those of you who know db numbers these cars put out about 155 to 160db!!!! That's louder than a fighter jet taking off standing 75 feet away!!!
Rob A. F-18 hornet tops this as far as noise goes but not by much lol
This is something is the closest thing to a dragon roaring
You must experience this in Your life for sure!,
This is a MONSTER VIDEO!!!!....I have watched this at least 50 times looking at the different reactions!....Lolololol....Great Job!
I like how you can tell exactly who is on the crew, and who is just a spectator at 1:28 when the driver actually hits the gas... Entire crowd almost jumps out of their skin, but none of the crew even flinch. Look at the woman in the black shirt sitting in the background in the bus door on the right. Doesn't even bat an eye!
Edit: Thats the most I've replayed a video in recent memory. Totally worth it to keep looping it and watch a different person each time, entertaining stuff! Everyone jumped, but the reactions afterwards are the best. Some people were giggling like kids on Christmas with what they just experienced, some almost look like they can't comprehend what just happened, others are looking around like they are expecting some authority figure to shut it down, and some are just looking for any possible way to get themselves away from the dragster.
The "jump" is involuntary. It rattles your eyeballs causing your vision to blur and vibrates your guts causing involuntary muscle contraction.
wow that mom was prepared, i was expecting her to start passing out more ear muffs to random bystanders
+Ian Germaine First thing I noticed too, well done her for looking out for her kids hearing.
PiDsMedia you can tell when they open the fuel pumps all the way
Ian G Yes she was! But she'd walked off when the throttle blip happens! Wanted to see the kids reaction lol!
And that's just at idol and a couple of blips. Now Imagine how loud it is under load at wide open throttle. Just a peek and food for thought in case your wondering how brutal these things really are.
Great comments Rob!
Please share the clip everywhere...spread the word!
The word is idle, not idol.
MarcusMoller
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+Rob A at one race they used machines that measure earthquakes. 2.5 on the scale of Richter when two took off :D
This never gets old! Im supposed to sleep for work in the morning but nope! I'm sitting here watching people jump lol Man nothing beats a nitro warm up
eeeeeh probably a side by side full pass
Haha, same
I love the smell of Nitro in the morning.......... It smells like .................. Victory....
I've never been there but I'm saving to come to your country to get some flavour
90% just hear "noise"
9% hear noise and talk about pollution
1% really feels this unreal power of that engine and knows what it's able to do. compared to a daily driven car, ehh sorry, you can't compare them...
i saw soda-bottles "exploding" when they pass, the air gets thin when they inhale and the earth starts shaking... you got to luv it... i do... SO MUCH INSTANT POWER
135erKrawallo this is what 8000 hp look like
loliv 23 more like 10-11K but 8K is almost as good.
Its like a 12ga. Shotgun going off next to your head
@@69newportking Nope...like eight 12ga. shotguns going off!
@@loliv2322 11,000, but yeah
I ´d love to have this burp sound for my mobile for incoming messages.
Me too
the dragster was just like, "back off or ill burst your eardrums."
Lol...too funny! I can always tell when they're about to tap the throttle because you can hear when they open the fuel pumps all the way
Bang goes off !! People at the front "wow this is awesome"
People at the back "fk this im out of here" :0
I tried standing 50 meters behind one of these when they throttled the engine, without wearing ear protection (fucking stupid when i think back). Holy shit, i thought i was going deaf for a second, it just got louder and louder and suddenly something popped and all sounds turned to static/noise/wind. I was lucky that i made it out with only a small hearing loss and a head ache. I'm fine now though, so don't worry about me. Take this as a warning, if you are going to one of these events; wear ear protection.
+Rasmus Bottolfsen one of the best feelings in life is taking my friends to a niteo event and sitting maybe 30m from the start line kinda behind it and not giving them any idea whats coming so for the first run i dont wear plugs. some of the faces that i get are amazing
+Rasmus Bottolfsen one of the best feelings in life is taking my friends to a niteo event and sitting maybe 30m from the start line kinda behind it and not giving them any idea whats coming so for the first run i dont wear plugs. some of the faces that i get are amazing
1:27 - hahahahahah I watched it over and over!
Ben Snyder i did to , i love it , i been there (well in the USA) , and as "rob a" said , you get two of these on a good 300mph pass and you feel it push in on your chest!
Best warm up I've seen on vid, you're eyes sting and you're ears are in pain - its insane!!!
Haha thx! Please share it! :)
I love this all the geto stereos that think there thumping is cool this is cool
Whenever you see the two S&M guys grabbing on to the back of the wing, shit's about to get real.
priceless when he wacked it...everyone jumped
Best nitro warm-up video out there
Start watching at 1:20 for the comedy moment.
OneTomGoodall thank you!
Looked like a school of fish getting spooked.
When everybody jumped at 1:27 😂
1:26
Great sound capture. well done👌👍
+southerncrosssmoker Thanks! Please share the clip! :)
Throttle whacks to set the clutch are an experience that are not to be believed unless witnessed live and up close. This video does a good job showing just that !!! After I met my wife-to-be in 1988, I took her to Gainesville for the Gatornationals. We were able to stand about 10-12 feet away from a TF performing the warm-up and driveline check, and she didn't cover her ears or even flinch when they blipped the throttle. I thought right then: "This is the girl for me !!!"
I had the same reaction the first time I went to the U.S. Nationals with my dad. I was sitting in Terry McMillans pit. And a funny car across from us started up that made me jump.
thats insane power u can see how everyting was shaking when he hit it.
This is one of my favorite videos on YT...!!!! That bald headed dude in foreground at 1:25..lol
Sonic booms! Just LOVE how brutal top fuel is! People have no clue JUST how loud these things are and just how much power is made!! Space shuttle has nothing on top fuel cars!
+JoeIsCrazyWillman Where that cam was is about as close as I like to get. I love the 1st time macho dudes who get close. They then choke on the fumes and shit themselves on the blips.
you know the space shuttle does 0 to mach 26 in 8:30 minutes. top fuel cant do mach anything lol
+bustin justin Lol!!
Jake Fry top fuel isnt literally going against the weight of the world tho
Top fuel is not louder than a space shuttle launch, not even close. A dragster at full throttle is 150dB, which is enough to cause pain and permanent hearing loss. When space shuttles launched, the pad saw sound levels of 215dB, which would have been lethal to anyone besides the astronauts protected inside the crew cabin.
After the rev they was like "oh hell naw"
See the guy in the black singlet and black pants covered in cartoons, I'm so fucking tough the world owes me a favor, REV fuck!! what was that, maybe my Harley isn't that great after all. LOL
LOL I picked that up to.
His GF digs it, he leaves her there to go have a good cry.
HaHaHa, yup. He pisses his boots full and his Crackerjack tats started to melt,,his rug loved it. She can stay.
@1.27 5person from right, the girl with the hat and wearing jeans is the only one who doesnt jump....the rest....was spooked lmao
Funny eh. Something that brings us all down no matter how tough you think you are.
normalsalaryman There's always the possibility that she's actually deaf.
That throttle response is incredible!!!!
Puts a smile on my face every time!
earplugs wont do shit, trust me. it will still catch you off guard when the ground and your whole body decides to have a mini earthquake, and you will spaz lol.
Yes, it's kind of loud when you can FEEL it on your chest with your ears plugged!
I hear those blips are when the driver is seating the clutch. Can anybody verify that?
They can also do that to verify clutch and management system works as it should when driver slams the throttle wide open. It can be verified from datalogging after the warmup.
@@juggis you'd have to run the full program. Not what's happening here.
The Butterflies are manually cracked open on the Injector Hat not the pedal.
Management system is started by Wide open throttle and button being depressed under pedal.
I remember when my son stood near one as a kid.....Surprize!
I kept replaying that part and laughed my butt off!LOL!! There is one dude smoken a cig, he is just cool as shit!
great video the closest ever to what it is really like .. I love this shit!
This video doesn’t do any justice. I highly encourage anyone who hasn’t been to a top fuel event to go!!! It’s earth shattering kidney crushing horsepower. Total insanity. Truly an experience you will never forget
1:26
This is Dragster Language for "DON'T FUCK WITH ME!"
First time I went to SantaPod they got me just like this lol. Nearly fell to the ground when I felt that boom!
Fuck electric cars. Nothing on earth will ever replace this experience.
Priceless! Sends chills down my body every time.
This is by far the best fan reaction to a Top Fuel warm up, keep the videos coming. Thanks!!
That's the sound of pulling grandma off the shitter
She the chick in the trailer sitting down in the doorway behind the whaap aah she’s like what what happened what fell doesn’t even budge lmao everyone else ... i’m going to die omg
I remember my first top fuel throttle whack!! 😂 🤣🤣👍👍
Brings tears to my eyes ;)
Got a blast directly in the eyes once as a child when Don Prudhomme's car was fired for a warm up in Tulsa Oklahoma. 😵
its amazing that those engines are only i think 500 ci. , with a huge supercharger and nitro and produce 10k hp. amazing
If you have never heard and felt one of these I'll give you a tip. Watch the window on the truck...He he he!! gives me chills just watching it. Watch the flags my Nitro friends, Watch the flags.
Watch the guy in the blue shirt and the canvas hat kind of in the middle his feet come off the ground twice LMFAO My stomach hurts from laughing so hard.............................................
nd your eyes are watering and your being choked by the nitro. If you've never experienced it you'll never understand.
Dtfl😂 it never fails your gonna jump hearing that shyt! Love it just priceless
Haha! I've been there - the 1st and last time you stand next to a top fueller running up without protecting your ears & nose!!
To anyone who hasn't seen it in person, it's an experience like no other! There's no audio/video on earth that can do it justice. I'd say the closest comparison would be like throwing sticks of TNT 10 feet in front of you and having it go off. (disclaimer: do not do that)
They did this to seat the clutch discs, No longer, the new clutch packs are machined to closer tolerances.
That's just at gentle tickover, just wait until two of them hit the throttle on the start line, then you know what "loud" really means.
Even the tough guy with long hair jumped like a pink daisy when he blipped the throttle
js92css ..his girlfriend loved it
Is anybody else laughing hard as i am at the 2 guys with ponytails in all black, that were walking around trying to look tough. Then they jump harder than most of the other people, including the old lady in the blue.
How is guys having pony tails wearing black mean they're trying to look tough? That's just their style. There were other people that jumped way harder.
My apologies for touching a nerve. Didnt realize a joke would be taken so seriously.
BabyBoiQue All good, no nerves touched. It was a simple question to a statement that did not in any way shape of form resemble a joke.
I love the smell, but man does it burn the eyes. i wish someone made nitro methane scented candles. I love watching people jump at the races.
I know I'm 4 years late to the party, but around 1:22 start watching the passenger window in the rig.
They almost break it... if it had a scratch on it, it might have shattered.
You truly have to be there in person to fully understand the power this dragster unleashes.
Just put one finger in your ear say “MAWP. MAWP. MAWP.”
Press 8 on your Keyboard while watching the Video 🤣
I miss this so much. 49 now. My dad took me to the NHRA races all the time when I was a kid. Englishtown NJ. I met so many drivers and I got their autographs. Dan Pastarini, Don Garlits, Bob Glidden, John Force, Gary Ormsby to name a few. Being in the pits though like these people are when these things fire up is a whole new life experience you will never forget lol. Eyes burn from the fumes, your ears are gone 🤣 and when that engine revs like that, the little burst they do. It feels like the ground beneath you disappears.
I wonder if the hearing aid manufacturers have access to facial recognition because they can target all the people in this video with their ads. After all, they are all going to need hearing aids after this.
1:28 and 1:30 don't sound like an engine revving, it sounds like a gunshot!
Nathan McDonald,
In the States the NHRA old schools call it "whacken the throttle". Only one team still does it. And as for the "sounds like gun shot", I was in the US Marine Corps was a anti-tank assault specialist, fired the 106mm Recoilless Rifle and many other firearms. Whacken the throttle is the closest thing to the 106, but not quit. No worries, liked your comment mate, I've been to your continent (AUS) 4 time, wish you all wouldn't have voted out your guns, there a bunch of fun, and ain't nobody brave enough to brake in my home! Wish you well, God Speed and God Bless,,,,
throttle blip has an amazing way of clearing out the rope rats.
I'm a whacko for nitro ! Fun fact : it takes 650 horsepower just to turn the supercharger !
That chick in all black uncovered her ears at the wrong time and got knocked upside the back of her head for it. LOL
omg that never gets old hahahaha
duck and cover 1:28
1:25 Listen to the throttle whack echo.
Yes, and that's just a little bit of throttle lol
Lightweights....
Should be getting nearer to the car, not running away....
Guys to the right - note for next time: earmuffs don't work.
Whack twice, rewind 10 sec, whack again. Rinse and repeat. Made me giggle like a child
Sadly, as time goes by the racers 'blips' the throttle during the warm-up less and less. And to make matters worse they are down to using only 85% nitro max. It would be better for the NHRA to mandate that the racers to run straight nitro and to implement restrictions on the engines that 'de-tune' them in order to maintain the current cost/risk of running the engines. It would be easy to run higher nitro % and yet at the same time decrease cost/breakage. Yes, performance times and speeds would suffer but who cares! We want to hear and feel the 'snap-crackle-pop' of nitro foremost and see performance secondary to that.
I think it would be cool for the NHRA to add a 'wild-man Outlaw' nitro class. Such a class would run de-tuned fuel cars that must use 3 speed manual shift transmissions. In other words. 'peddle fest' machines! Heck, they would only be going 180 mph at 1000'!!!
Another benefit to that is that the smaller budget racer could race heads up with the 'Dixons and Forces'.
No more Dixons but spot on with the rest....
When the team grabs the dragster you know whats comming!!
1:26 👀
lol, the guy in white T-shirt holding the camera. Bring earplugs next time so you don't need to do the nazi salute :)
lmao
No amount of getting ready can prepare you for how loud these things are
1:28
Does hit you with the instinctive reaction you are in danger..funny, takes me a second before my brain catches up! Wonder why we enjoy being scared?
Kevin hart jokes “he/she wasn’t ready”
50% went WTF & the other 50% were LTAO at the 50% that went WTF
Its really impressive how much air that engine consume. Look at the tent wall and notice how it wants to be sucked into the blower
Got to be there to feel the shockwave hit you along with the roar of a 10,000+ hp supercharged nitro guzzling hemi to believe it.
I remember when I was first time in Alastaro circuit, and two top fuel dragsters left at the same time. The slight earthquake in the spectators point was insane feeling.
its not the sound its the nitro fumes that scare you away! it burns!
0:06 kid on the right is scared shitless lol
The last 2 seconds of this clip is the baddest sound on the planet.
You are looking for 1:27 in the video
As scary as standing next to a Jumbo