As a motorcycle and V8 enthusiast, I remember my first visit to the top fuelers back in the late eighties. “Take hearing protection,” they said. “It’s louder than you’ll believe,” they said. “Pfft, how loud can a V8 be, I said.” How little I knew.
Those are absolutely incredible. If you're standing next to the return lane at the 50' mark, you can feel the organs in your body vibrate when they go by. I only felt that in one other situation. Under an F-4 at full AB
Even 1/4 mile away top fuelers are louder than any machine or vehicle you've ever heard or felt. A little closer and your whole body vibrates inside and out like God is gripping you in one of those old fashioned massagers that straps to the hand!
I remember when getting out of the 8's was a big deal. Then came 200MPH. Thank you Big Daddy for going rear engine and figuring out the steering ratio!
338.17 mph The fastest speed achieved in a National Hot Rod Association race in the Top Fuel class is 338.17 mph (544.23 km/h), by Brittany Force (USA) at the Dodge NHRA Nationals on 1 November 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Force's record-breaking run came during qualifying.
I was there, it was a Monday early to finish the race because as usual Maple Grove had bad weather over the weekend of the race. It wasn't very crowded and the crowd was easy going (all real race fans), it was damp but not cold. I just knew someone was going to beak the record that day. After all its Maple Grove in October, records fall and are made. Antron's Top Fuel left the hole stuck like his slicks were made of juicy fruit gum and he seemed to hit the 330ft mark like it was the 60ft mark. When he crossed the 1/8th mile (660ft) with the clutch fully engaged, straight as an arrow, and continuing to increase acceleration it LOOKED SO FRICKIN' GOOD!!! What was weird about that run was the sound; it was noticeably louder and was just so short, I mean he was just GONE!!!
What have they done to these cars .they use to consistently around 4.4 4.3 seconds .now they can run 3.7 WTF. Are they running the full 1/4 mile or only 1,000ft .??
When I was young in the late 60's early 70's my older brother would take me to Oxford Plains Speedway drag strip in Maine. I'll never forget how loud the cars were and that fuel smell. They let you walk freely all around the pit area and I remember many classic cars like English Anglias and those big oval beautiful Willy's cars the most. My brother used to buy all the drag racing magazines and when I moved to Florida in 1998 I went to the Don Garlitts drag racing museum and right as I walked in the first thing that greeted me was the famous Little Red Wagon I had seen on the magazine covers 30 years earlier. It was a van/pickup known for doing wheelies the whole length of the strip and it was set up at the front door up on two wheels so you could see the entire undercarriage. Incredible.
Its sad that out of all the comments that actually pertain to the sport, this is the one that gets all the likes. No wonder the NHRA and IHRA get less viewership than NASCAR these days. Their fans are like their parents 🤣🤣🤣 stuck in a timewarp.
@@rbagel55 true. they launch around 5 Gs and it levels off going down track to maybe 2 to 3.....but goes around -3 when they hit hit the chutes. AND.......they're doing that without a G suit. talk about a backbreaker!
@@ciscoj33 Pretty brutal .I think being shot off an aircraft carrier is easy compared to this. These guys have to be conditioned for this, any ordinary person would black out. Only one sport I know is more brutal. I bet you are asking WHAT SPORT? Check this out. ruclips.net/video/j8i04jBLI5I/видео.html
What I wouldn't give to have seen Antron run 3.70 in person! TV does this sport no justice. Someone please invent some speakers that shake you like a Funny Car run.
holy shit, when I was a kid in the golden days of the early 70s, mostly Englishtown jungle Jim lieberman, gene snow, Don the snake Shirley chacha. the LA dart, hemi under glass. top fuel was 7 seconds and 165 mph. now it's 3 seconds at 350 wow mph...wow
So true! But I was watching the same cars and drivers on the west coast @ Orange County International Raceway and Lion's Dragstrip! Great times watching these legends along with the likes of Jim Dunn, The Mongoose and the Hawaiian !! Never forget the smell of nitromethane!!!!
Don't forget my all time favorite, Mickey Thompson's Mach 1..... the blue one. Ran a 6.96 in 1969 when the next best funny car run ever was a 7.35 by Big John Mazmanian.
If you like anything with a bit of power then at least one trip to an event with top fuellers in your lifetime is a must. It's not just the noise. It's the only time ever known the air to vibrate.
I watched Antron Brown at the first New England Nationals held at New England Dragway in New Hampshire a few years ago and during a qualifying run his car had tire shake so bad that both parachutes came out and the car hadn’t gone 60 feet but Antron didn’t know it so he quickly got off and back on the throttle and made a full pass. I don’t remember the ET but he went 299mph pulling two fully opened parachutes it was a very impressive display of the kind of power those cars possess as those chutes were just along for the ride.
Magic in technology. Its fun to watch the top fuel bikes as well. I cannot stay seated when a top fuel does a run. You have to stand in awe at the energy of it all. Everyone here kicks ass for their interest in a dying sport. Folks the stadiums are getting empty for events. Get away from your computer and experience it first hand. It will change a person. Gods of the drag strip incline towards it.
I ws in the pits at Island Dragway in 1964 when Don Garlets broke the 200 mph barrier but that was a quarter mile. These cars now are limited to 1,000 feet and they're still breaking records. Shoot Man, back in '64 we couldn't turn our heads fast enough :P
@@jogibajr Man, that's too much of a stretch on my memory but hey...here we both are fifty some odd years later swapping tales about that day on the Internet.
Top Fuel and Funny Cars don't need Air that is Pro Stock bikes and Pro Stock cars. Nitromethane powered cars make their own oxygen that is why the engine is so powerful besides the supercharger and 34 injectors. YES that is not your standard V8 with 8 injectors folks.
They tried to slow them down by cutting the track in half and said it was impossible to do 300 mph. Well that didn't last very long. Now who will be the first to break 350 mph?
They didn't cut it in half they cut it to 1000 feet for Nitro cars because of Scott Kalitta getting killed. Some of the older tracks don't have ability to build a big runoff area which is what the NHRA required after Scott died. Crew Chiefs are engineers, they will find a way to make more power and in turn more speed. Part of that innovation was because of Austin Coil, Bernie Fedderly, Jimmie Prock, Dean Antonelli, Dan Hood, John Medlen and a host of others that I can't think of right now.
ericynot..... I honestly remember when they were wondering if they could top 150!! Seems to me that "Big's" name was attached to a Whole lot of those mph barrier records!! They can talk all they want about the T/F "stars" of today.... but, "Big" (DG) was, and always will be.... the "King" of T/F.... in So Many ways!! Top Fuel probably would never have survived the 1970s, were it not for him, & TC (Tommy Lemons)..... and lets Never forget his beloved wife, Pat... if it weren't for her and the way she Always supported him, and didn't let him quit (numerous times) when he tried to.... he would have quit after the Chester fire, and most definitely after the infamous trans explosion at Lyons in 70. Ahhhhh, those WERE, "the days"!! We were all So blessed to have grown up and lived during all those years and times..... this "world" and the country, really sucks in this day and age, and in more ways than one!!
@@Romans--bo7br Ah, that does bring back a lot of memories. I also loosely followed motocross and recall Bob Hurricane Hannah - just next level craziness. And the gear they used compared to today - just pedestrian by comparison. As far as a lot of the crap today, I just let it slide by. Life's too short to get wound around the axle for things largely out of my control. On a different note, I have a '19 ford raptor that makes over 500 ft lbs of torque out of a little V6. It pulls like a freight train. If you told me I would be driving in a truck with a 10spd auto and 450hp with 14" of suspension in 2019, I'd have laughed. Maybe out of a big block.
Wow that was wild being there the thunderous raw of that motor shaken the ground extreme vibrations through everything especially through the spectators amazing 3.722 fastest time in known history
That is 3.722 seconds to a quarter mile away world 🌎 record breaking muscle 💪 and speed and design and machine work. Everything worked without a hitch no problems no explosions no parts flying off no crashes. I love 💘 it when all that comes together to make a spectacular run. TAKE A BOUW you've earned it. Bravo 👏 bravo 👏 bravo 👏 bravo you deserve a standing ovation bravo 👏 bravo 👏 bravo!!!!!!!!!!
The presenter of this video should know the difference between "fastest" and "quickest." An NHRA drag car can set records in either category or both...but saying one when you mean the other is a cardinal sin in Drag Racing...
@@fdfsdfsvsfgsg4888 WRONG! The thousand of professional drivers that have made runs down a dragstrip monumentally care about the difference in Fast, and Quick. The thousands of sportsman drivers care. The 10's of thousands of local bracket racers across the country that race every weekend care. Every EDUCATED fan cares! Only imbeciles don't care.
These guys get around 5 G's, but nowhere G-loc for trained pilots. The g thresholds at which these effects occur depend on the training, age and fitness of the individual. An un-trained individual not used to the G-straining maneuver can black out between 4 and 6 g, particularly if this is pulled suddenly. A trained, fit individual wearing a g suit and practicing the straining maneuver can, with some difficulty, sustain up to 12-14g without loss of consciousness. The "Blue Angels"[citation needed] have to perform their maneuvers without the aid of flight-suits, and regularly sustain 3-5 second bursts of 10 g thresholds
1:22 You can see both cars light up before the green but the staging distance (a few inches back of the start line?) was probably enough for the green to come on before they crossed the start line. And the yellows and the green were both on momentarily. Bottom line - if there was no distance between the cars and the start line both cars would have red lighted. That's as close as you can cut it :-0)
altitude doesn't mean much with the NItro cars, that is why they don't have issues at Mile High dragway in Denver but the Pro stock cars do. However, cooler temperatures helps with grip and speed because they dont need to roll back some of the power settings like if it was hot and slick.
@@stevenmartin4889 who cares thats the sport. utter joke they just dumped the classic q mile. just wiped out the whole history of the sport. you cant compare times anymore its not legit.
@@danchristopher7957 they can go at speeds on the 1000 ft that they could on the 1/4 mile now so I call bullshit, NHRA just doesn't want to pay for increasing safety measures so they're taking fun out of the sport. If they were really about safety then they should have made the runoffs longer, tracks wider, maybe added some safety nets and stuff like that, I think you get my point. Top Fuel is still amazing though.
Space shuttle takeoff is/was a steady 3g's, if I took the day I could do the math but how many g's are these guys dealing with, must be twice that. Generally passout g for average is 7 I think. They are being smooshed, I can't imagine the fear and adrenaline. You wonder why John Force is half crazy, his brain is smooshed from all his runs.
As a motorcycle and V8 enthusiast, I remember my first visit to the top fuelers back in the late eighties. “Take hearing protection,” they said. “It’s louder than you’ll believe,” they said. “Pfft, how loud can a V8 be, I said.” How little I knew.
Those are absolutely incredible. If you're standing next to the return lane at the 50' mark, you can feel the organs in your body vibrate when they go by. I only felt that in one other situation. Under an F-4 at full AB
Louder than a fighter plane.
Man you ain't lying!!! Those monsters are stupid loud!!! I've never heard anything that loud in my life.
Even 1/4 mile away top fuelers are louder than any machine or vehicle you've ever heard or felt. A little closer and your whole body vibrates inside and out like God is gripping you in one of those old fashioned massagers that straps to the hand!
I remember when getting out of the 8's was a big deal. Then came 200MPH. Thank you Big Daddy for going rear engine and figuring out the steering ratio!
Showing our age , bruh...
I love how fast these drag cars get, but the sound of those engines idling takes the win for me..
...it's the whine of the supercharger when the revs are dieing off after throttle 'blips' that gets me.....
They make more hp idling than my Miata does at redline.
@@mjd4174 idling they make like 5k 😂
seeing them shoot off like a bullet in the distance is my favourite part but the idling is pretty cool too
338.17 mph
The fastest speed achieved in a National Hot Rod Association race in the Top Fuel class is 338.17 mph (544.23 km/h), by Brittany Force (USA) at the Dodge NHRA Nationals on 1 November 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Force's record-breaking run came during qualifying.
Did she win the race? 🙁
Been around them all my life never thought they could do that amazing
I was there, it was a Monday early to finish the race because as usual Maple Grove had bad weather over the weekend of the race. It wasn't very crowded and the crowd was easy going (all real race fans), it was damp but not cold. I just knew someone was going to beak the record that day. After all its Maple Grove in October, records fall and are made. Antron's Top Fuel left the hole stuck like his slicks were made of juicy fruit gum and he seemed to hit the 330ft mark like it was the 60ft mark. When he crossed the 1/8th mile (660ft) with the clutch fully engaged, straight as an arrow, and continuing to increase acceleration it LOOKED SO FRICKIN' GOOD!!! What was weird about that run was the sound; it was noticeably louder and was just so short, I mean he was just GONE!!!
+TheBuckTom lol yea
he left the Geicho top fueler in the dust
C Clayton gosh you didn't need to right a book on it
C Clayton i was there all 4 days too ...they had their best turnout for a monday being it was also columbus day
1/8 mile is 660 1/4 1320
What have they done to these cars .they use to consistently around 4.4 4.3 seconds .now they can run 3.7 WTF. Are they running the full 1/4 mile or only 1,000ft .??
When I was young in the late 60's early 70's my older brother would take me to Oxford Plains Speedway drag strip in Maine. I'll never forget how loud the cars were and that fuel smell. They let you walk freely all around the pit area and I remember many classic cars like English Anglias and those big oval beautiful Willy's cars the most. My brother used to buy all the drag racing magazines and when I moved to Florida in 1998 I went to the Don Garlitts drag racing museum and right as I walked in the first thing that greeted me was the famous Little Red Wagon I had seen on the magazine covers 30 years earlier. It was a van/pickup known for doing wheelies the whole length of the strip and it was set up at the front door up on two wheels so you could see the entire undercarriage. Incredible.
👍remember the ' back up pick up ' ?
Sibley and Dix Detroit 65,
Love the video and thank you so much for not playing rap music to it like so many are now LOVED IT
In Uk We Call Rap .Crap
@@peterlee6745 I just know you're old
it’s mechanical music!
Peter Lee you have plenty of backup in the us!
Its sad that out of all the comments that actually pertain to the sport, this is the one that gets all the likes. No wonder the NHRA and IHRA get less viewership than NASCAR these days. Their fans are like their parents 🤣🤣🤣 stuck in a timewarp.
This deserved a much, much bigger crowd to witness the triumph of physics and engineering.
Poindexter
I was shocked at the tiny crowd!
You never know when a record is going to be made.
I went in 2013 it was awesome. The jet car at the end was a good finale
These cars get faster and faster every year, it take a lot of guts to drive like that.
The guys who drive them really need to be in top shape, the G forces in one of these thing will make most people black out.
@@rbagel55 true. they launch around 5 Gs and it levels off going down track to maybe 2 to 3.....but goes around -3 when they hit hit the chutes. AND.......they're doing that without a G suit. talk about a backbreaker!
@@ciscoj33 Pretty brutal .I think being shot off an aircraft carrier is easy compared to this. These guys have to be conditioned for this, any ordinary person would black out. Only one sport I know is more brutal. I bet you are asking WHAT SPORT? Check this out. ruclips.net/video/j8i04jBLI5I/видео.html
@@rbagel55 I'd have to disagree. For pure guts IMO the Isle of Man TT is second to none.
ruclips.net/video/HuC1lcS2FlQ/видео.html
It must feel like driving a death trap with 20,000 horsepower
What I wouldn't give to have seen Antron run 3.70 in person! TV does this sport no justice. Someone please invent some speakers that shake you like a Funny Car run.
Antron. My favorite driver!
holy shit, when I was a kid in the golden days of the early 70s, mostly Englishtown jungle Jim lieberman, gene snow, Don the snake Shirley chacha. the LA dart, hemi under glass. top fuel was 7 seconds and 165 mph. now it's 3 seconds at 350 wow mph...wow
So true! But I was watching the same cars and drivers on the west coast @ Orange County International
Raceway and Lion's Dragstrip! Great times watching these legends along with the likes of Jim Dunn,
The Mongoose and the Hawaiian !! Never forget the smell of nitromethane!!!!
Oh yeah good times, Snake vs The Mongoose,
Big Daddy Don Garlits, I built all the Revell plastic models kits of the day
Don't forget my all time favorite, Mickey Thompson's Mach 1..... the blue one. Ran a 6.96 in 1969 when the next best funny car run ever was a 7.35 by Big John Mazmanian.
Me too ! back in 69 was my first event at Pomona.
What about bob glidden at the 86 ihra at Darlington trying to brake 200 mph? him and his sons were all over it at 199
If you like anything with a bit of power then at least one trip to an event with top fuellers in your lifetime is a must. It's not just the noise. It's the only time ever known the air to vibrate.
I watched Antron Brown at the first New England Nationals held at New England Dragway in New Hampshire a few years ago and during a qualifying run his car had tire shake so bad that both parachutes came out and the car hadn’t gone 60 feet but Antron didn’t know it so he quickly got off and back on the throttle and made a full pass. I don’t remember the ET but he went 299mph pulling two fully opened parachutes it was a very impressive display of the kind of power those cars possess as those chutes were just along for the ride.
Hot rod is simply unbeatable
Magic in technology. Its fun to watch the top fuel bikes as well. I cannot stay seated when a top fuel does a run. You have to stand in awe at the energy of it all.
Everyone here kicks ass for their interest in a dying sport. Folks the stadiums are getting empty for events. Get away from your computer and experience it first hand. It will change a person. Gods of the drag strip incline towards it.
It's a dying sport?
I ws in the pits at Island Dragway in 1964 when Don Garlets broke the 200 mph barrier but that was a quarter mile. These cars now are limited to 1,000 feet and they're still breaking records. Shoot Man, back in '64 we couldn't turn our heads fast enough :P
I was there also. Did you watch the Drag News Top Dog race between Garlits and Norm Weekly in the Frantic Four AA/FD late in the day ?
@@jogibajr Man, that's too much of a stretch on my memory but hey...here we both are fifty some odd years later swapping tales about that day on the Internet.
Traction, traction, traction.
Tiny Schumacher ran 3.66 @330 mph last week.
Didn't Britney Force run a 3.62 in Sept. 2019?
For those asking, the top-end speed was 325.69 mph
Thank you, I was wondering
When u have dry cold air is perfect condition for top fuel runs
JOHN CANNONE perfect for all engines!
Top Fuel and Funny Cars don't need Air that is Pro Stock bikes and Pro Stock cars. Nitromethane powered cars make their own oxygen that is why the engine is so powerful besides the supercharger and 34 injectors. YES that is not your standard V8 with 8 injectors folks.
They tried to slow them down by cutting the track in half and said it was impossible to do 300 mph. Well that didn't last very long. Now who will be the first to break 350 mph?
They didn't cut it in half they cut it to 1000 feet for Nitro cars because of Scott Kalitta getting killed. Some of the older tracks don't have ability to build a big runoff area which is what the NHRA required after Scott died. Crew Chiefs are engineers, they will find a way to make more power and in turn more speed. Part of that innovation was because of Austin Coil, Bernie Fedderly, Jimmie Prock, Dean Antonelli, Dan Hood, John Medlen and a host of others that I can't think of right now.
how comicly funny these cars look is amazing, i love how they just SHOOT flames like there is no tomorrow
Thats Coss The Heat From Headers And The Air is Cold
I'm so old I remember the debate about whether a drag racer would ever go faster than 200 MPH.
> me too , the experts said it was impossible
Yes, then all the talk about 250.
ericynot..... I honestly remember when they were wondering if they could top 150!! Seems to me that "Big's" name was attached to a Whole lot of those mph barrier records!! They can talk all they want about the T/F "stars" of today.... but, "Big" (DG) was, and always will be.... the "King" of T/F.... in So Many ways!! Top Fuel probably would never have survived the 1970s, were it not for him, & TC (Tommy Lemons)..... and lets Never forget his beloved wife, Pat... if it weren't for her and the way she Always supported him, and didn't let him quit (numerous times) when he tried to.... he would have quit after the Chester fire, and most definitely after the infamous trans explosion at Lyons in 70.
Ahhhhh, those WERE, "the days"!! We were all So blessed to have grown up and lived during all those years and times..... this "world" and the country, really sucks in this day and age, and in more ways than one!!
@@Romans--bo7br Ah, that does bring back a lot of memories. I also loosely followed motocross and recall Bob Hurricane Hannah - just next level craziness. And the gear they used compared to today - just pedestrian by comparison.
As far as a lot of the crap today, I just let it slide by. Life's too short to get wound around the axle for things largely out of my control.
On a different note, I have a '19 ford raptor that makes over 500 ft lbs of torque out of a little V6. It pulls like a freight train. If you told me I would be driving in a truck with a 10spd auto and 450hp with 14" of suspension in 2019, I'd have laughed. Maybe out of a big block.
You blink, you miss it!
Fantastic incredible speed love drag racing santa pod ❤😊xx
Nothing like the sound of engine growling and roaring, screaming down the track I can't get enough of the assault on my ear drums
Eventually the car will disappear at the start line and reappear at the finish line, wow, an honest to god wormhole!!!
Saw the new record last month at Maple Grove set by Brittany Force...3.62 ET. Amazing.
There almost going a quarter speed of sound !! Go Fast Jack
They are now running in the low 3.60s.
Wow that was wild being there the thunderous raw of that motor shaken the ground extreme vibrations through everything especially through the spectators amazing 3.722 fastest time in known history
I often wonder what effect the launch has on the pilot. Looks like a lot of g's to me.
launch is somewhere around 7G's and negative 11G's when they pop the chutes
It shortens their penis!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍🍺🍺🍺
Now that was impressive
That intense Nitro cackle gets me every time !
Would have been nice to have some details of the run.
I love this! Thank you!
That's five years ago and 3.72 seconds which isn't that far off he present record of 3.628 set by Clay Millikin
That is 3.722 seconds to a quarter mile away world 🌎 record breaking muscle 💪 and speed and design and machine work. Everything worked without a hitch no problems no explosions no parts flying off no crashes. I love 💘 it when all that comes together to make a spectacular run. TAKE A BOUW you've earned it. Bravo 👏 bravo 👏 bravo 👏 bravo you deserve a standing ovation bravo 👏 bravo 👏 bravo!!!!!!!!!!
Damn space ships!!!
Gregory time machines!
Those G forces must be enormous!
The presenter of this video should know the difference between "fastest" and "quickest." An NHRA drag car can set records in either category or both...but saying one when you mean the other is a cardinal sin in Drag Racing...
Kinda like the difference between ft. lbs. and lb.ft., they are confused many time also.
Nobody cares.
@@fdfsdfsvsfgsg4888 WRONG! The thousand of professional drivers that have made runs down a dragstrip monumentally care about the difference in Fast, and Quick. The thousands of sportsman drivers care. The 10's of thousands of local bracket racers across the country that race every weekend care. Every EDUCATED fan cares! Only imbeciles don't care.
@@fdfsdfsvsfgsg4888 So I guess you never got beat by .001 sec. even though you ran quicker and or faster? Bench Racer.
@@MikeM275 Spot on Mate! )
That's 1000ft wish they would bring back the 1/4 mile when we were seing speeds of 340 plus.
It WAS the fastest until Brittany Force hit a 3.623
Rocket sleds. Love it.
Sheesh that's fast meow meow
This record was broken early 2016 at the NHRA Windsor Grand National by Burt McNeil with a 3.27 second run.
Nobody has EVER run 3.27 seconds. You must be using democrat math.
@@MrSuzuki1187 -- LOL, yep.
I think you've crashed one too many times mate.
@@MrSuzuki1187 Sammymiller ran a 3.22 @ 402. It's on RUclips, look it up. It was a rocket car powered by hydrogen peroxide.
These guys get around 5 G's, but nowhere G-loc for trained pilots.
The g thresholds at which these effects occur depend on the training, age and fitness of the individual. An un-trained individual not used to the G-straining maneuver can black out between 4 and 6 g, particularly if this is pulled suddenly. A trained, fit individual wearing a g suit and practicing the straining maneuver can, with some difficulty, sustain up to 12-14g without loss of consciousness. The "Blue Angels"[citation needed] have to perform their maneuvers without the aid of flight-suits, and regularly sustain 3-5 second bursts of 10 g thresholds
Holy Greased Lightning Batman😎
"LUDICROUS SPEED, NOW!!!"
What do we have in this thing, a cuisinart?!!
They've gone to plaid!
Damn it man, they should call him rocket man
just took my thunder valley shirt off first time in years...
They are only doing 1000 feet now, but I suppose that’s enough, still amazing
I was in the stands for this run
Antron BROWN! Any questions?...
And they call bikes crotch rockets.....
I was at that race
Those things don't even sound like engines when they go full throttle, its like one long continuous sound of gunfire or thunder.
the Air Vibrates, it is Easily the loudest noise ive ever heard.
1:22 You can see both cars light up before the green
but the staging distance (a few inches back of the start line?)
was probably enough for the green to come on before they crossed the start line.
And the yellows and the green were both on momentarily.
Bottom line - if there was no distance between the cars and the start line
both cars would have red lighted.
That's as close as you can cut it :-0)
Is this the last of the 1/4 mile 1320 foot records?
how fast did he go and what was the et?
Fantastic !
john rhodes cobb built a car back in the late 1930s and went 368 mph..and thats fucken fast..
i was at maple grove at the 2014 american muscle mustang show. its super bitchin.
This was on Sunday at the time it was the fastest. He did run a 3.70 on Monday
nsstang what was the reaction time and top speed? Badass run
Cold, gotta be cold for a record run. Low altitude helps also.
altitude doesn't mean much with the NItro cars, that is why they don't have issues at Mile High dragway in Denver but the Pro stock cars do. However, cooler temperatures helps with grip and speed because they dont need to roll back some of the power settings like if it was hot and slick.
Man, I use to love the Nationals at Maple Grove. We had some great times there back in the 80's. Super Chevy Sunday's were also great!
Nitro engines love cold dry air
Really know how to drive those vehicles
The shorter track sucks. Bring back quarter mile racing.
When did the rear wheels start getting smaller? They used to be twice that diameter. Three when stretched.
Doppler effect is strong on this one
At what distance? 1/4 mile or 1000 feet like they do now. Don't they?
That was some pretty astonishing shit actually
The results dosen`t matter anymore becuse they don`t drive the whole quartermile anymore.................
Probably need more space to stop those beasts compared to the old days of only 200mph
Mikael Persson agree completely with you !
yes - your're right - anything less than quarter mile is not a true drag race.
That's how I feel. 1/8 is a joke.
@David Hereaux, yes soon the race distance will be so short that they will over run it on the burn-out.
Larry Minor/ Gary Beck....5.39 FASTEST EVER .....in 1984... GEEZ...I AM OLDIFICATING!!!!
This is called horsepower
Should've added as of 8/7/10
Not fastest run but lowest ET.
Jane Cowling like you would know anything about this
Jane what is the fastest ?
Jane Cowling he said quickest... not fastest.
Awesome.....🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
this is actually eastern creek drag strip in australia.
Rob Banks it says the track right on the wall....
No!! It was Norwalk in Ohio
No it's not Eastern Creek
Or it might have been Dragway 42 in West Salem. I should know, I was there
@@kdwaynec ...LOL, no you weren't there, this is Maple Grove...in Pa. Which I have raced at...
very impressive.... but if I'm not mistaken thats not REAL 1/4 mile drag racing.... it's crap ass 1000 foot....
Only real drag racing is the 1320...
Another football field of distance... there would be too many fatalities due to the outrageous speed... at that distance.
If it was true quarter mile it’d be exceedingly more dangerous than it is now
@@stevenmartin4889 who cares thats the sport. utter joke they just dumped the classic q mile. just wiped out the whole history of the sport. you cant compare times anymore its not legit.
@@danchristopher7957 they can go at speeds on the 1000 ft that they could on the 1/4 mile now so I call bullshit, NHRA just doesn't want to pay for increasing safety measures so they're taking fun out of the sport. If they were really about safety then they should have made the runoffs longer, tracks wider, maybe added some safety nets and stuff like that, I think you get my point. Top Fuel is still amazing though.
beat at 2015 Brainerd internationals 3.6somethin
JESUS CHRIST THOSE ARE FAST!
So, thanks for the video. WE couldn't see the time. A zoom feature comes with most video recording devices made.
Anybody remember the first one to hit 300 on a 1/4 mile? Doug Herbert from Lincolnton North Carolina.
Eddie Hill. was the first.
@@lonnieblackwell9215 Actually after looking it up I was wrong. Kenny Bernstein was first and Doug Herbert was second to hit 300 mph.
@@lonnieblackwell9215 yeah, was gonna said...thought it was Hill...i remember it was a really big deal
good air...
WOW I can't wait tell they hit 350 MPH
what was the speed? i couldn't hear it clear
338mph I believe
@@Pwilly1984 That is 543.958 km/hr in Europe and Canada....
That's smoking fast
never sit on the return road sise
Wish they would show et and speed.
Space shuttle takeoff is/was a steady 3g's, if I took the day I could do the math but how many g's are these guys dealing with, must be twice that. Generally passout g for average is 7 I think. They are being smooshed, I can't imagine the fear and adrenaline. You wonder why John Force is half crazy, his brain is smooshed from all his runs.
It"s 5gs leaving the starting line the negative g's are enough to cause detached retinas like what happened with garlits a while back....
At some point the laws of physics says a car that weighs _____lbs can only reach this speed_____mph? Any body know what that is?
With those people spread out in the stands like that I thought it was 2020. ;)
3.60s at BIR 2015 .
Every year I think they can't go any faster and then they do.I wonder what is the limit just wait and see.
_Google collapses on the ground cryin'. xD_
And force said they wanted to slow them down and run a 1000 feet lol