NHRA was my first love for racing, my grandpa was an IHRA drag racer in a truck, and that truck is still to date the most amazing piece of machinery I've laid eyes on, so much time and work went into and you can just tell
My buddy was working the starting line at a race. Larry Dixon in the Miller Beer dragster was preparing to qualify. NASCAR great Rusty Wallace was there as a guest of the Miller team watching as well. After Dixon made his pass, Rusty turned to Dixon's crew and yelled "You guys are fu**!ng nuts!".
You've mentioned what the sound is like, I've seen NASCAR, dirt track racing (All classes), Ocala Drag racing, and NHRA. I can tell you that the sound is one thing, but watching the gravel on the ground move and feeling it throughout your entire body, is the real experience. It's louder and more impactful to the body than going to an air show and seeing the Thunderbirds or the Blue Angels. Which BTW you should check out, jets are measured in Horsepower as well and the things that the pilots do with those jets is truly mind-blowing.
I remember going to the Daytona 500 several years ago and the people around us were worried we didn't have ear protection. "When all the cars come around on the starting lap you;ll be sorry." Well, when the pack went by at the start I knew these people had never been to a top fuel race in NHRA. Two dragsters easily are louder than the 30 car pack going by.
Top Fuel racing is a full body experience. It's difficult to imagine that they get as loud as they do. The fuel they use is so energetic that you really are experiencing several thousand TNT-like explosions per second when they hit the accelerator. It's worth going to a local event if you have one near you. Bring hearing protection.
My Uncle Denny, RIP... He liked to watch the season opener at Norwalk OH especially the door slammers. My favorite time of year is "Night under Fire" in August when they run the Jet powered funny cars, and then watch Bob Motz's jet powered Peterbuilt turn the grandstand billboard from a dull grey to a cherry red color. We'd be waiting in line for chilie dogs or something and my uncle would take take in a nice long nitro-methane laced breath and say... "They're starting up the cars. Let's get back to our seats".
All your senses are at work at a drag strip the sound the smell your body vibrates from the sheer power of those engines and to see these runaway cars is easy to say controlled chaos you get a chance to go do it
i grew up around an NHRA track and my family would go every year since it was relatively cheap. I never liked cars until recently and didn’t remember it much since we moved away when i was 10. Recently moved back and wanted to go back to an event. We were running late and had to park half a mile away and it was raining and i heard an earth shattering noise and thought it was thunder. But it was just the race, it’s so loud it causes earthquakes and is just an otherworldly experience for something so “simple”
These drag cars are those types where you truly feel that rumble of that massive 10 to 12 thousand horsepower in your soul. It awesome and if you ever get a chance i would highly recommend if you are ever in the states!
Let this very experienced old motorhead tell you that there's simply northing in this world like the sound of two fuel cars hitting full throttle at the starting line. There is no way for our meager audio tech. to handle it over recordings. Live at the race is nothing like you have ever heard.
@@jordancarr3262They have a daughter and a younger son. Considering Courtney is a much better race car driver than Graham, the kids might end up at the drag strip.
NitroMethane is so tightly controlled, because there are so few legitimate uses for it, outside of military applications, the only real use for the stuff is for top fuel drag racing, one of the MAIN reasons why it is so powerful and dangerous, is that when used for anything, is that it contains within itself, nearly all of the needed oxygen for it to burn/explode, which makes it good for very short high horsepower racing, and making bombs, outside of those 2 things, it is only used very limited in construction, demolition, or mining.
The only thing I've ever experienced that comes close to how these things feel going by is when I used to go watch the Space Shuttle launch when I was a kid. You can feel your bones shake. Amazing experience.
When they say those cars make 12,000 horsepower, that's just an educated guess...there isn't a dynamometer anywhere on the planet that's strong enough to actually measure the power output of a Top Fuel car. Brittany Force set the Top Fuel speed record in 2022, hitting 338.94mph at the finish line. She covered the 1000-foot distance in just over 3.6 seconds. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, nobody's outdone her to date.
There are many vids about the shock you feel as a spectator at an nhra event there's one with a compilation of spectator reactions of is fun to watch they have measured the the shock of 2 top fuelers coming off the starting line with a seizmometer it measures around 2.2 that is a small earthqiake
The only way to experience a drag race is to go to a national event. Unlike other motorsports, every ticket is a pit pass, so you can get up close and personal. Also Brittany and Courtney's cars were pink because this was shot during breast cancer awareness month.
Maybe check out nitro drag bikes 🙂. Uses the same fuel as top-fuel dragsters. Drivers wear kevlar so when the motor blows their bodies are penetrated with motor debris (the literally lay over the motor).
If its possible to go see those beasts live everyone should, thats one time experience for some ppl and for some hobby for some its life but anyways its experience
♥♥♥GREAT REACTION!!! ♥Luke 12:6-7 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.
since you're in the building your own cars check out a little girl named Alex Taylor she actually builds her own cars with her dad and she runs what they call a drag and Drive they drive a thousand miles in a race car on the streets to five different drag strips and then they run down the track the best times combined at the end of the week wins and she's won a few times her car will do 6 seconds at over 200 miles an hour
Hey new subscriber here! You should definitely check out truck/tractor pulling. Top end classes can have 7000+ horsepower and a lot more torque. They pull a sled that weighs around 50,000 on dirt. Whoever pulls it farthest and fastest wins.
you must attend a race for the full experience, terrifying and will love it.
NHRA was my first love for racing, my grandpa was an IHRA drag racer in a truck, and that truck is still to date the most amazing piece of machinery I've laid eyes on, so much time and work went into and you can just tell
If you ever go to Pamona Ca. The NHRA museum, is near the track. Has history of the sport, and older cars. I grew up about 20 minutes from it.
My buddy was working the starting line at a race. Larry Dixon in the Miller Beer dragster was preparing to qualify. NASCAR great Rusty Wallace was there as a guest of the Miller team watching as well. After Dixon made his pass, Rusty turned to Dixon's crew and yelled "You guys are fu**!ng nuts!".
You've mentioned what the sound is like, I've seen NASCAR, dirt track racing (All classes), Ocala Drag racing, and NHRA. I can tell you that the sound is one thing, but watching the gravel on the ground move and feeling it throughout your entire body, is the real experience. It's louder and more impactful to the body than going to an air show and seeing the Thunderbirds or the Blue Angels. Which BTW you should check out, jets are measured in Horsepower as well and the things that the pilots do with those jets is truly mind-blowing.
I remember going to the Daytona 500 several years ago and the people around us were worried we didn't have ear protection. "When all the cars come around on the starting lap you;ll be sorry." Well, when the pack went by at the start I knew these people had never been to a top fuel race in NHRA. Two dragsters easily are louder than the 30 car pack going by.
@@Dmachine2000 Easily louder than 40 cars going by at Talladega, much less 30 at a "normal" track...
@@Dmachine2000Those two fuelers have more horsepower than those 30 cars combined, too!
Top Fuel racing is a full body experience. It's difficult to imagine that they get as loud as they do. The fuel they use is so energetic that you really are experiencing several thousand TNT-like explosions per second when they hit the accelerator. It's worth going to a local event if you have one near you. Bring hearing protection.
i think my favorite thing about motorsports is how much they push the limit. all for the passion of the sport, and too win. its really beautiful.
My Uncle Denny, RIP... He liked to watch the season opener at Norwalk OH especially the door slammers. My favorite time of year is "Night under Fire" in August when they run the Jet powered funny cars, and then watch Bob Motz's jet powered Peterbuilt turn the grandstand billboard from a dull grey to a cherry red color. We'd be waiting in line for chilie dogs or something and my uncle would take take in a nice long nitro-methane laced breath and say... "They're starting up the cars. Let's get back to our seats".
All your senses are at work at a drag strip the sound the smell your body vibrates from the sheer power of those engines and to see these runaway cars is easy to say controlled chaos you get a chance to go do it
i grew up around an NHRA track and my family would go every year since it was relatively cheap. I never liked cars until recently and didn’t remember it much since we moved away when i was 10. Recently moved back and wanted to go back to an event. We were running late and had to park half a mile away and it was raining and i heard an earth shattering noise and thought it was thunder. But it was just the race, it’s so loud it causes earthquakes and is just an otherworldly experience for something so “simple”
When 2 12000 H power cars off if you standing near them , its like 2.3 earthquake on the richter scale. shakes everything
These drag cars are those types where you truly feel that rumble of that massive 10 to 12 thousand horsepower in your soul.
It awesome and if you ever get a chance i would highly recommend if you are ever in the states!
Let this very experienced old motorhead tell you that there's simply northing in this world like the sound of two fuel cars hitting full throttle at the starting line. There is no way for our meager audio tech. to handle it over recordings. Live at the race is nothing like you have ever heard.
Fun Fact: Courtney Force is married to Indycar driver Graham Rahal
If they have a son it will be the reincarnation of Senna.
@@jordancarr3262They have a daughter and a younger son. Considering Courtney is a much better race car driver than Graham, the kids might end up at the drag strip.
NitroMethane is so tightly controlled, because there are so few legitimate uses for it, outside of military applications, the only real use for the stuff is for top fuel drag racing, one of the MAIN reasons why it is so powerful and dangerous, is that when used for anything, is that it contains within itself, nearly all of the needed oxygen for it to burn/explode, which makes it good for very short high horsepower racing, and making bombs, outside of those 2 things, it is only used very limited in construction, demolition, or mining.
The only thing I've ever experienced that comes close to how these things feel going by is when I used to go watch the Space Shuttle launch when I was a kid. You can feel your bones shake. Amazing experience.
When they say those cars make 12,000 horsepower, that's just an educated guess...there isn't a dynamometer anywhere on the planet that's strong enough to actually measure the power output of a Top Fuel car.
Brittany Force set the Top Fuel speed record in 2022, hitting 338.94mph at the finish line. She covered the 1000-foot distance in just over 3.6 seconds. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, nobody's outdone her to date.
Look into Shirley Muldowney, she was the queen of drag racing. There’s a movie about her as well.
When you're at the venue, your insides literally vibrate when the Nitro cars take off.
There are many vids about the shock you feel as a spectator at an nhra event there's one with a compilation of spectator reactions of is fun to watch they have measured the the shock of 2 top fuelers coming off the starting line with a seizmometer it measures around 2.2 that is a small earthqiake
When I used to go to the track I had earplugs in and noise cancelling head set on.
The only way to experience a drag race is to go to a national event. Unlike other motorsports, every ticket is a pit pass, so you can get up close and personal.
Also Brittany and Courtney's cars were pink because this was shot during breast cancer awareness month.
Maybe check out nitro drag bikes 🙂. Uses the same fuel as top-fuel dragsters. Drivers wear kevlar so when the motor blows their bodies are penetrated with motor debris (the literally lay over the motor).
This is my favorite car racing ❤❤❤ I don’t live to far from Gainesville Florida and they have a track. I try to go as often as I can. ❤❤
If its possible to go see those beasts live everyone should, thats one time experience for some ppl and for some hobby for some its life but anyways its experience
Watch Clay Millican he's a top fuel dragster driver.
♥♥♥GREAT REACTION!!! ♥Luke 12:6-7 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God.
Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.
since you're in the building your own cars check out a little girl named Alex Taylor she actually builds her own cars with her dad and she runs what they call a drag and Drive they drive a thousand miles in a race car on the streets to five different drag strips and then they run down the track the best times combined at the end of the week wins and she's won a few times her car will do 6 seconds at over 200 miles an hour
Hey new subscriber here! You should definitely check out truck/tractor pulling. Top end classes can have 7000+ horsepower and a lot more torque. They pull a sled that weighs around 50,000 on dirt. Whoever pulls it farthest and fastest wins.
Thanks for subscribing! I will definitely check it out 😇
Watch a video about Shirley Mudowney.
Super stadium trucks
been trying, stadium super trucks is awsome
React to initial d lol
Girl power ❤