Alaric Pether
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11,000 horsepower Top Fuel Funny Car start up and switch to nitro
Steve Ashdown and the Undertaker team at Santa Pod, Euro Finals 2024. I love these guys. Drag racing is so much more rock and roll than F1. The F1 pit is a closed off space populated with superstars and bland corporate types. The drag racing pit is open to all and populated with Hell's Angels and geezers in gas masks ... and 11,000 horsepower cars. What's not to like.
The video simply doesn't do the volume of the car justice. The switch to nitro doesn't really sound any louder on the video. It is. The car is always loud, but when they switch the nitro on it sounds like standing right next to a Gatling Gun. My angle here was perfect. I was just to the side of the exhausts so wasn't completely blasted by eye watering fumes. I could breath and see.
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11,000 horsepower Top Fuel Funny Car start up and sneaky throttle whack
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Patrik Pers and the Speedghost team at Santa Pod, Euro Finals 2024. Recording top fuel on a phone is really hit or miss, but I think I got some really good moments of nitro cackle here. Patrik made the first European 300 mph run in a funny car that weekend and they even threw in a cheeky throttle whack here. Those guys are totally crazy. They're great. The sound goes a bit funny towards the end...
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КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @oldschool5560
    @oldschool5560 18 годин тому

    Ground pounders, you feel them going down the track.

  • @JStrike42
    @JStrike42 День тому

    WOW!! Katie, bar the door!

  • @colehara
    @colehara День тому

    I can smell it! 🥰

  • @methodicl2673
    @methodicl2673 День тому

    so nothing happened. oh wow so awesome.

  • @YouTuber-mc2el
    @YouTuber-mc2el День тому

    Never forget my first time at a NHRA event at Dinwiddie Va. I needed CPR after my top fuel initiation. No matter how you try to describe the power to someone you'll fall way short. It has to be experienced in person.

  • @rossmackenzie7993
    @rossmackenzie7993 День тому

    Look cat the cool guy without his mask on 😂

  • @silentfog6924
    @silentfog6924 День тому

    Looks like a STALKER gathering.

  • @kengyang1908
    @kengyang1908 2 дні тому

    Why just 11,000hp so close to 11,001 be just so much better alright alright alright alright

  • @garyaussie3778
    @garyaussie3778 2 дні тому

    My car easier to start, don't need the neighborhood around to watch.....😁

  • @waybous
    @waybous 3 дні тому

    A Dodge Demon can't turn over that blower.

  • @keithkdrailstratton2100
    @keithkdrailstratton2100 3 дні тому

    Why is only one of these guys wearing hearing protection? I SAID, WHY IS ONLY ONE OF THESE GUYS WEARING HEARING PROTECTION?

  • @ALANRMOREY
    @ALANRMOREY 4 дні тому

    I love the smell of Nitro Methane in the morning !

  • @eddiebrown687
    @eddiebrown687 5 днів тому

    Once your hearing is gone, it's gone....

  • @kl0wnkiller912
    @kl0wnkiller912 5 днів тому

    Gotta be one hell of a rush driving one of those. My car has 600 HP and it gets my heart pumping. I cannot imagine that beast!

  • @laryanryan9170
    @laryanryan9170 6 днів тому

    @2:25. That bottle on the table just walked right over to the edge and jumped off.

  • @mattszarowicz5049
    @mattszarowicz5049 6 днів тому

    Only got a couple ear plugs in

  • @balleroniplaytv5788
    @balleroniplaytv5788 6 днів тому

    Parece quando meu pai ligava o Voyage 5 da matina pra ir trabalhar

  • @xxjett13xx
    @xxjett13xx 7 днів тому

    It's pointless to wear a full face respirator if you're not clean shaven

  • @georgia-outside825
    @georgia-outside825 7 днів тому

    Love seeing 81 colors I definitely support

  • @toodabutt70
    @toodabutt70 7 днів тому

    This gave me wood,

  • @mrk454
    @mrk454 8 днів тому

    im loving the dude with the ciggy lol..

  • @traintraintrain51
    @traintraintrain51 8 днів тому

    The head guy tried to be a stud an hold out in the mask longer than he should have showing off. Stand around one light up in the pits outside at a race and you’ll pass out from the alcohol!!

    • @16-BITFPV
      @16-BITFPV 3 дні тому

      Meh looked like an old guy with eye glasses on probably can't see. Quit crying you might get your keyboard wet.

  • @patricemurguet5247
    @patricemurguet5247 9 днів тому

    C’est sûrement eco responsable ?😂😂😂 c’est bizarre on attend toujours le 1 er top fuel de Tesla ..😮 Ouah les mecs ne doivent déjà avoir plus de poumons et plus d’oreilles apres 30 ans Vraiment tarés c’est ricains mais qu’est ce que c’est bon leur goût pour l’extrême !!! ça nous change de l’ambiance « faux cul sauveur de la planète « qu’on trouve chez nous 😢

  • @biknjak
    @biknjak 10 днів тому

    I'm choking and my eyes are watering just watching it on my IPad!😰👍

  • @sizzlechest6070
    @sizzlechest6070 10 днів тому

    Dudes with no hearing protection will regret it, guaranteed.

    • @michaeleaster1815
      @michaeleaster1815 5 днів тому

      fun video but hard to watch re: no hearing protection...

    • @GhostRider-dp2tc
      @GhostRider-dp2tc День тому

      You do not understand frequencys. Ear muffs and ear plugs worn together your hearing is screwed...

    • @vincentlussier8264
      @vincentlussier8264 20 годин тому

      ​@@GhostRider-dp2tcI don't get it . Did you say earplugs and earmuffs worn together ruins hearing ? How? Doesn't it protect your hearing? It's the way you worded it maybe!😮

    • @GhostRider-dp2tc
      @GhostRider-dp2tc 15 годин тому

      ​@@vincentlussier8264 I did not numb nuts at all. I said if you understand the environment you would know why hearing protection does not work...

  • @brucemoyers1006
    @brucemoyers1006 11 днів тому

    How can you tell who the dumbest guy in the room is? He isn't wearing ear protection.

  • @steveleader4570
    @steveleader4570 11 днів тому

    My old Montego sounded like that.

  • @Coyotehello
    @Coyotehello 12 днів тому

    "I love this crackler so bad I will go deaf for it"...

    • @GhostRider-dp2tc
      @GhostRider-dp2tc День тому

      You do not understand the cackler...hear protection will not help

    • @Coyotehello
      @Coyotehello 14 годин тому

      @@GhostRider-dp2tc LOL, you really do not know what air pressure is? Oh wait USA-USA-USA, why I am not surprised...

  • @MS-Patriot2
    @MS-Patriot2 12 днів тому

    Oh yeah, for comparison can you imagine the excitement in an electric dragster pit ? Fucking love this shit. Santa Pod veteran of 50 years.

  • @willg54
    @willg54 13 днів тому

    Alaric, your channel pic looks a bit like Harpo Marx. Is it, or is that a picture of you?😊

  • @adamc8751
    @adamc8751 13 днів тому

    Huge round of applause to you all!!!

  • @THROTTLEPOWER
    @THROTTLEPOWER 14 днів тому

    Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👍👍

  • @merlin5476
    @merlin5476 15 днів тому

    Why was he pouring fuel into the intake when they were stopping the engine ?

    • @alaricpether2930
      @alaricpether2930 13 днів тому

      I'm no expert ... but here's what I think: it's to ensure there's no nitro in the engine. They never start an engine with nitro. It's too explosive: hence the bottle of petrol. I've seen teams have to abruptly shut down top fuel cars at Santa Pod. It isn't so easy to start a top fuel car up again. The teams have to keep cranking the engines until they've got rid of all the nitro. Then, and only then, can they start the engine up again. So, I guess they prepare for a clean shut down by squirting petrol in the blower and shutting off the fuel lever. The engine runs on petrol for long enough to purge all the nitro.

    • @merlin5476
      @merlin5476 13 днів тому

      @alaricpether2930 sounds pretty reasonable to me 👍

    • @Goober-o3n
      @Goober-o3n 7 днів тому

      Dude..these don't run on petrol..alcohol, methanol, nitro methane is the chosen fuels.

  • @bd3391
    @bd3391 15 днів тому

    It starts on regular gasoline to get it turning, then they turn on the methanol to get it nice and hot, then they hit the nitro for the Smokey cackle fest. Awesome video!

    • @Goober-o3n
      @Goober-o3n 7 днів тому

      Alcohol...not gasoline...

    • @bd3391
      @bd3391 6 днів тому

      @@Goober-o3n gasoline is what’s in the squirt bottle that they spray into the blower while the other fuel pumps are off

    • @mykec.selene8302
      @mykec.selene8302 5 днів тому

      Nitromethane not methanol.

    • @bd3391
      @bd3391 5 днів тому

      @ the nitro doesn’t start until it gets Smokey at the end.

    • @bd3391
      @bd3391 5 днів тому

      Look it up fellas, all of this information is available

  • @zebanderson653
    @zebanderson653 17 днів тому

    This shit is so loud the table is vibrating!!!!

  • @ChrisMcCutcheon-wj2pp
    @ChrisMcCutcheon-wj2pp 19 днів тому

    Dam I started crying watching the video, see ya at 4 wide in NC in 2025, be there or b a square,

  • @blainewherley3372
    @blainewherley3372 19 днів тому

    I stood next to one on start up as a dumb teen. No one told me what was coming. I felt the compression in my chest. Felt like I lost some of my hearing after that.

  • @daveking3633
    @daveking3633 19 днів тому

    If it’s loud outside in the NHRA pits, imagine how much louder it is close inside😊. Nitro gets gets in your blood 😊

  • @miltonBanana877
    @miltonBanana877 19 днів тому

    2:49 due is holding that fuel bottle with a lit cigarette. Smart.

    • @jacobtravis812
      @jacobtravis812 19 днів тому

      Not saying it’s smart but a cigarette will not light gasoline on fire very easily unless the conditions are perfect & nitromethane and methanol need a way hotter ignition source to ignite especially nitro so it’s relatively safe lol. We been around the old school guys that been doing it for years.

  • @carpballet
    @carpballet 20 днів тому

    Hells angels t shirt?

    • @tedpergolizzi6455
      @tedpergolizzi6455 19 годин тому

      First thing I saw. Like come on buddy, stop. Even if you are, retain some modesty for Christs sake.

  • @johnbautch
    @johnbautch 20 днів тому

    Long live the piston driven engine!!!!

  • @brucebangeman8627
    @brucebangeman8627 20 днів тому

    The guy with his back to camera and not wearing a mask,( of all things, he is smoking a cigarette), 🚬 just got to have a puff ?!?!?!

  • @nativeamerican8069
    @nativeamerican8069 21 день тому

    81

  • @donsavignano4396
    @donsavignano4396 21 день тому

    I go every year to Sonoma raceway in Sonoma California u.s.a. to see and hear the big show cars

  • @donsavignano4396
    @donsavignano4396 21 день тому

    This just proves that drag racing is international whether it be NHRA, IHRA etc. smell the nitro, hear and feel the power of 11,000 horsepower

  • @tylerwalter8232
    @tylerwalter8232 21 день тому

    Dude at 3:15 is smoking a j.🎉😂

  • @mitchconner1407
    @mitchconner1407 22 дні тому

    Awesome. Thank you. Can’t wait for Bradenton in a few weeks.

  • @avalon1rae
    @avalon1rae 22 дні тому

    Big boy club.😊

  • @brandonreeves5979
    @brandonreeves5979 22 дні тому

    Man I never get tired of hearing and smelling these cars! I love drag racing!!!

    • @THROTTLEPOWER
      @THROTTLEPOWER 14 днів тому

      I agree Brandon!!

    • @vincentlussier8264
      @vincentlussier8264 19 годин тому

      Well it's not good for your respiratory system and your hearing takes a beating too! If you attend motorsport events frequently you're subjecting yourself to future health issues! Rock concerts also harm people's hearing!

  • @Johnnyroten
    @Johnnyroten 23 дні тому

    I’m choking