It was pretty cool when you could see the drivers head/helmet but I have to say that the new wind screen has a fighter jet look that's pretty badass too.
Because the recording was taken straight from the feed in the booth and not from outside in the crowd. But I thought the same thing at first. Then I realized.
Diamond P days long gone, Even Wide World of Sports had better coverage than this but then again Drag Racing had far more popularity than it does now. Today a family of 4 attending a national meet will fork over 360 bucks on average in admission alone unless the kids are under 12. Back in the day (1970s/early 80s) it cost 22 dollars for me to get in at Indy (as a spectator).
They should really hire younger individuals for covering their races, youtubers who film top fuel races is more exciting than this. I just don't understand how such exciting cars and races look so boring in this.
NHRA has the WORST tv deal, no Friday coverage. What happened to Friday Nitro ? Promoted properly that could have gotten ratings but Noooooooooo.. Local listings are always wrong 1/2 the time or preempted by a crappy college basketball or soccer game...
Salute! . You really have to work for it to be able to watch. They have some strange time slots and flip to sister stations with delays - it's taped anyway, wtf?
NHRA's coverage died when they move to FS1. Nothing but ads, weird disjointed coverage, terrible sound and Brian Lohnes just flapping his yap nonstop. Someone just uploaded a bunch of old races from the early 00's a couple weeks ago. Go check them out. The coverage was a million times better. I miss Mike Dunn.
What can you say about Tony Stewart He's a winner knows how to treat people I think I hope That's what makes him a winner I'm glad to see he got married and he settled him down but he's not through not by a long shot Go Tony
@@PeteyWheatstraw585Gordon just started earlier. From Stewart's rookie season in 99 till he retired, he and Gordon had very similar stats and Stewart won 3 championships while Gordon won just one in that time span. And Stewart is the far superior driver overall. He's competed in many more different motorsport disciplines and has been successful in every single one. Tony is the greatest driver in motorsports history, Gordon is just a great stock car driver.
Used to watch the snake and mongoose and Don garlits.those days are gone. Pro stock switched to fuel injection. One day there will be electric dragsters.hope I'm gone before that happens!
NHRA is slowly losing sponsorship/teams where some races the elimination brackets aren’t even filled. The fan participation is also thinning out. And look at the trash TV scheduling.
Those people most likely just remember that a stoned idiot ran out on a track at night in a black suit with cars running around and got himself killed.
I just want to state the obvious, Tony is probably ready to run TF, but theirs many if not thousands of people who are more qualified and ready to run top fuel!
@@acepilotson3331 yes, the kid was killed and Tony was driving the car that killed him, that doesnt mean he murdered him. It was an accident, an avoidable one at that. If Kevin Ward would have stayed in his car and not ran out into traffic, he wouldnt have been killed.
@@warrenmichael918 jumping out of your race car and expressing your anger like that under caution is a common occurrence at every track and during most events. Nobody dies because the drivers don’t steer towards the angry person and stomp on the gas and try to “roost” him. Tony himself is guilty of that behavior but…. Celebrity worship is crazy.
@@acepilotson3331 Thats how we know you are clueless about what actually happened. He wasnt trying to "roost" him. These cars dont turn like your pinto, you need to blip the throttle to get it to turn with the solid axle. He also didnt steer towards him , he turned away from him, thats why the idiot ate the rear tire and not the front bumper.
Wow! 4 generations of us got to experience this Sunday.
Grampy, Son, Grandson, & Greatgrandson❤❤❤❤
WHAT CAN YOU SAY? THE MAN IS JUST A WINNER AND WE ALL WISH HIM LUCK IN THIS POSSIBLE NEW CAREER!
It was pretty cool when you could see the drivers head/helmet but I have to say that the new wind screen has a fighter jet look that's pretty badass too.
The applause silence from his introduction was deafening.
I am sure that they would have applauded louder for you. 😂
Gonna be an interesting year. 😎
Because the recording was taken straight from the feed in the booth and not from outside in the crowd. But I thought the same thing at first. Then I realized.
Go get’em Tony! Smoke’em!
Another product of Indiana. Racing Capital of the World 🌎. Playing with the big boys. Good luck 👍
I knew when he started the team it was just a matter of time before we saw him in Top Fuel. Smoke em Tony!
Only reason he is in the car is wife wants to start family
@@johnhaas2523 That's nice of Tony to be accommodating to his wife and her boyfriend.
Killin it
Now he really is SMOKE!
Just like Hawkeye turning into Ronin
Go Smoke!
GET ‘EM SMOKE!!!!
Lets go Smoke!!
Tony, 2024 NHRA Champ! Go ahead and add it to his collection
Smoke is great for drag racing. Need new blood
There's lot's of new blood
Congrats Smoke. Good Sh----!!!
It’s a shame that the most popular and diverse racing series in America has the worst tv coverage 🤦🏻♂️
Doesn’t just suck. I used to watch it but now it’s unwatchable
Diamond P days long gone, Even Wide World of Sports had better coverage than this but then again Drag Racing had far more popularity than it does now. Today a family of 4 attending a national meet will fork over 360 bucks on average in admission alone unless the kids are under 12. Back in the day (1970s/early 80s) it cost 22 dollars for me to get in at Indy (as a spectator).
They should really hire younger individuals for covering their races, youtubers who film top fuel races is more exciting than this. I just don't understand how such exciting cars and races look so boring in this.
NHRA has the WORST tv deal, no Friday coverage. What happened to Friday Nitro ? Promoted properly that could have gotten ratings but Noooooooooo.. Local listings are always wrong 1/2 the time or preempted by a crappy college basketball or soccer game...
Salute! . You really have to work for it to be able to watch. They have some strange time slots and flip to sister stations with delays - it's taped anyway, wtf?
NHRA's coverage died when they move to FS1. Nothing but ads, weird disjointed coverage, terrible sound and Brian Lohnes just flapping his yap nonstop. Someone just uploaded a bunch of old races from the early 00's a couple weeks ago. Go check them out. The coverage was a million times better. I miss Mike Dunn.
NHRA is losing their fan base.
I agree! You have to pay an arm and and a leg just to get the channel but you only use it for a couple of days.
@m0ondoggy Mike was the man, he'll tell it as it is,
Go Get Em Big Smoke!
I don’t know if Big Smoke is a good name for him 😂 I know he’s Smoke but not Big Smoke
"Hold my beer," Kenny Bernstein!!!
Hold my bud Bernstein😊
Tony murderer Stewart!
Going to miss seeing Leah racing
She's young, she can always come back after being a mom.
@@King4sshole89 i think thats her plan
Expensive Thrill
What can you say about Tony Stewart He's a winner knows how to treat people I think I hope That's what makes him a winner I'm glad to see he got married and he settled him down but he's not through not by a long shot Go Tony
Simply the best racer to ever live!
So much respect for Smoke, I would watch him do a crossword puzzle,lol.
I like Tony Stewart his first debut drag race performance!!!!!
Let's fucking goooo
My pap would have loved to see this❤️
Had to enlarge the standard driver cabin for that gut. Just not the same with very short runs
Tony Stewart Is The Ultimate Race Car Driver 🏎
Until he met Jeff Gordon, with the black SS and the navigation. Stats don't lie. Stewart had an ok career, but he's no Jeff Gordon.
@PeteyWheatstraw585 l Wasn't Talking About Stats I Meant Cause Of Aw The Different Race Cars He Done Raced Nothing Wrong Gordon He Had A Great Career
@@PeteyWheatstraw585Gordon just started earlier. From Stewart's rookie season in 99 till he retired, he and Gordon had very similar stats and Stewart won 3 championships while Gordon won just one in that time span. And Stewart is the far superior driver overall. He's competed in many more different motorsport disciplines and has been successful in every single one. Tony is the greatest driver in motorsports history, Gordon is just a great stock car driver.
Good run,Smoke!!! Good luck this season! 😊
Can't believe there are people posting here saying there isn't any racing on Friday, WTF...
Bravo.
CMON Smoke!!!
Keep going
TS does it all...
You can do it,we got faith in you 👍☕️☕️✌️
Shirley Muldowney is still my hero❤
I LOVE this- driving straight is just as hard as turning left- Tony is a GREAT driver, wish him all the best
That won't beat all his left turns.😊
Miss watching Drag racing 💯👍😐
Great driver, I hope he doesn't get hurt.
It's the safest motor sport in the world, he be fine, guys a pros pro, 😊
@@user-bl6ne3hc6nno its not
Smoke did what the late John Andretti is doing. Race race cars.
If Barney Rubble and Fred Flintstone merged into one person=tony stewart
Barney Flintstone or Fred Rubble? I like Fred Rubble.
Go TSR!
GO SMOKE!!!
I work at IRP in Indy. can't wait to see Smoke at the Big Go as a driver!!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This doesn’t get his attention nothing will. Saw the top fuels once in Arizona. Your Sitting on a bomb in those. Just pure explosive power
What Alan Reichart (sp?) missed was that Stewart also had a cylinder out.
he didnt know that at the time
Go TSR & MOPAR
Slowpar
Is there anything on this Earth that that man can't drive besides maybe a lawn mower. He is awesome
Sounded like the announcer had a Darrell Waldrip moment.....all that excitement in his voice while playing "pocket pool".
How much power does that car make
bad boy
why are the rear good year slicks coverd?
Temperature control....keeps the sun off.
They try to keep the sun off of them as much as possible. It makes the air pressure in the tire/liner increase.
@@mikebaker9574 oh ok thank you for telling me I've been wondering for a while
Try not to smoke anybody in this series
Smoke had a cylinder out too
Was never a fan of his... but this is still cool he went to another racing sport!!
same
Do you have to have this the same weekend as Daytona bike week? Grrrr
As of 04/07/2024 Tony Stewart is in 12th place in the Top Fuel standings and I would rather see Leah back in her seat.
go bossman! 👉
With enough money you can have a competitive car
I tune in for Alan R 😎
ikr hes so cool my dad is buddies with him
I saw Bubba the love sponge in the background
Hes gonna do great better than Jimmie Johnson in indy car
Is there anything Tony CANT DO?
Drive around someone standing on a race track
Damn that first announcer needs to learn from a pro
At least in this form of motorsport it's a lot harder for him to purposefully crash his opponent.
Cant turn around so this will work lol
That’s pretty cool Tony Stewart went from NASCAR to top fuel
Used to watch the snake and mongoose and Don garlits.those days are gone. Pro stock switched to fuel injection. One day there will be electric dragsters.hope I'm gone before that happens!
Tony Stewart used to be a NASCAR driver, and now he’s a drag racer
He ran open wheel before that too.
IndyCar and Sprint cars.
NHRA is slowly losing sponsorship/teams where some races the elimination brackets aren’t even filled. The fan participation is also thinning out. And look at the trash TV scheduling.
Nhra coverage is lousy now
See ya later Nascar.
Lol he got shr to deal with what you mean?
He's in the Hall of Fame. Nascar is long behind him.
Exactly. That's what Dodge told them again.! SEE YA LATER NASCAR. 😂🖕
@@ianparrish6543 dodge only race in nhra buddy.
it didn't say who won?
Qualifying, not eliminations. They weren't head to head, just laying down a time.
Get rid of Brian lohnes and Tony Pedregon in the booth!!!!! They suck!!!
Forgot to mention driving over and killing a guy in his list of accomplishments
I see smoke 😅 right on Tony it will be a fun season thank you for bringing smoke to drag racing
Throw a kid out on the track.You'll make it down there real quick😢
So he decided to get into real racing.
The flat bill look 🤮🤮🤮
Can’t believe that all these people commenting on here in support of him have forgotten that he murdered someone during a race!
Those people most likely just remember that a stoned idiot ran out on a track at night in a black suit with cars running around and got himself killed.
Dodge come back to nascar please. Don’t make Tony’s team drive fords or any manufacturers. Please 🙏
Thought Tony was a Ford man
Tony is a money man. Duh
60' time seems a little off
I just want to state the obvious, Tony is probably ready to run TF, but theirs many if not thousands of people who are more qualified and ready to run top fuel!
Just like every sport ever, there are always more qualified or talented people out there who just don’t get the chance. Money talks.
Oh well. He owns the team.
First off, I didn't think you made a laugh in the drag car.I'll let you might have pass anything.I'm gonna circle track you wouldn't make a lap
Did he kill anyone?
no, there wasnt any stoned idiots out on the track this time running around. See how that is the safer way
@@warrenmichael918 😂😂 Tony is not gonna invite to the hauler. Stoned or not tony drove at and killed that guy.
@@acepilotson3331 yes, the kid was killed and Tony was driving the car that killed him, that doesnt mean he murdered him. It was an accident, an avoidable one at that. If Kevin Ward would have stayed in his car and not ran out into traffic, he wouldnt have been killed.
@@warrenmichael918 jumping out of your race car and expressing your anger like that under caution is a common occurrence at every track and during most events. Nobody dies because the drivers don’t steer towards the angry person and stomp on the gas and try to “roost” him. Tony himself is guilty of that behavior but…. Celebrity worship is crazy.
@@acepilotson3331 Thats how we know you are clueless about what actually happened. He wasnt trying to "roost" him. These cars dont turn like your pinto, you need to blip the throttle to get it to turn with the solid axle. He also didnt steer towards him , he turned away from him, thats why the idiot ate the rear tire and not the front bumper.
At his current rate of cheeseburger consumption he’s not gonna fit in the car a year from now…
Not running quarter mile.
3.90 et.. kinda soft..
At least he didn't murder anyone with his car again. Good job, Tony!
at least no stoned idiots were running around the track again with race cars
Go get em Tony! Please try not to run over another driver tho!
I call it auto incorrect.
I sure hope the other drivers don't get out of their cars on active racetrack!
Nobody cares!
And he killed someone too didn’t he
No. The guy had high levels of pot in his system. That someone went on the track. He killed himself.
no, he was involved with some stoned kid that ran onto the track where cars were driving and tried to tackle a wheel, he lost
Dude killed himself posing in the street liser
Remember that time Tony Stewart killed Kevin Ward Jr. on purpose.
I’ll never forget. FTS
Wait till he loses a little and shows his bad temper.
Roundy Round is so boring. Thrills are on the Straight Track
wont watch killer stewart for any reason i am wondering a little about how she them they it will kill someone in drag racing