allan polk yes sir you are almost right! The displacement of air coming out of the exhaust and the sound that this makes is the SOUND you hear so that's why I sound you were almost right!
Seattle is where John Force got his 150th win in Funny Car and Austin Prock got his first ever career win in Top Fuel. What an awesome weekend it was for John Force Racing
Saw my first race in 1964, I was 11 y/o. My brother-in-law was racing a 63 Ford Galaxie with a 427 ci. I remember Top Fuel cars were still front engine with no reverse, they pushed 'em back after burnouts. Remember the first "Funny Cars", too. Saw Don Garlits race the 1st rear engine Top Fuel car in 1971 and now, at 65 y/o I still love the roar and the smell of nitro in the night.
I am motorsports photographer that often shoots nitro cars, IMO this is the best place to watch from because the clutch locks up right around this point and they are really working the engines hard.
Nothing like it for sure. It doesn’t just affect the sense of hearing but the sound resonates through your whole body. It’s unbelievable to say the least.😳😮🤭
People's reactions are priceless. If you never went to to an event you will not be disappointed it's so awesome the feeling you get when they launch. Undiscribable so much fun
Many years ago while at Darlington drag way, I was right up on the starting line within 50 feet of the cars. I have been to many events but never that close to the cars. When they took off, it scared me that my inside were vibrating. What a rush.
She seriously has no ear protection? WOW! No way in hell. I’m surprised her ears aren’t bleeding! Easily the loudest thing I’ve ever heard. Growing up and living an hour from Indy has afforded me the ability to see some incredible drag racing through the years. I was lucky enough to see Big Daddy, Shirley Muldowney, The Snake and many others up through John Force and then some. Back when I was a kid and each team would not only pass out 8x10 posters of their funny car or top fuel car in action, the drivers would sign them for you. You name the famous driver and I very likely had their autograph on their small poster. When I went to college, my mother took it upon herself to “get rid of clutter” in my room. She thought they were all just printed autographs and they got circle filed. Yeah...it took many years to get over that. MOM’S! LOL!!!
I remember when I was a spectator of drag racing a long time ago, I really wanted to be a drag racer. And then I realised if I became a racer, I'd miss the experience of being a spectator. So I decided to remain a spectator, and I never lost a race :)
- But as a spectator you never get to experience of being pushed back in your seat when you laleunch your car or the feel of being slammed into your "seat belts" when you pull the chute as you cross the beams or the emotions of the joy from winning race, or better yet an event or drivers championship and as the saying goes the agony of defeat on that day when your best wasn't quite good enough and every other emotion in between. I remember my first time I drove my car down the track it was June, 18th, 1983 at the sadly now closed 75 and 80 Drag-A-Way in my 1971 Plymouth Satellite with a freshly installed 383 that I had built under the guidance of a neighbor of mine who raced an Alcohol Funny car
@@MacSmithvox oh wow. Variety is the spice of life though I guess. I probably "fan" the most over super gas. I enjoy watching nitro racing, bit it's different. It's like a quarterback studying film on monday
First drag meet was Santa Pod 1989. Let's do that ecstasy tab. Split it before goin in the gate. Handed the tablet to him out of courtesy and he necked it all, expecting me to have split it. All nite rave ,- cancelled. I slept like a baby, him outside gurning in the rain.
I so remember bringing my wife and sons to Island Dragoway back in the seventies when Don Garlits was running his Swamp Rat. The effect on my wife was similar but she fell over.
Those cars are so loud, that even watching from the stands that you can yell at the top of your lungs, and you will not hear yourself when the cars go racing by!! Oh yea, and the ground literally SHAKES!!!
I still say that to experience the full effect, you have to be at or near the starting line. I've seen "first timers" curl up into the fetal position from that sound.
Oh Jesus , I’ve been to several events anywhere from 5-50 years old and I’ve had several ear tests over the years . You know when I felt a problem in my right ear ? While listening to music too loud as a teenager! Not from a nitro burning funny car or dragster. I hate stupid “ doo gooders “ “oh you should do this” and “you shouldn’t do that” etc... shut up !!!
1st time i went back in the 90s...i told people it was like there was a sheet of plywood in front of me and someone hit it with a sledge hammer..and i loved the pits. .id stand there n hold my breath long as i could snot runnin out my nose when they first cranked them..i miss it sooo much...Memphis sux for losing the mid south nationals
Many years ago I ran some numbers on a top fuel car, and the power just in the exhaust, and showed them to some Top Fuel guys I knew, like Wes Cerny and others and the numbers were staggering, imagine dropping a cylinder on a car and the change in Exhaust is enough to blow the car sideways and changes a lane, I asked them why they don't use the obvious massive thrust in exhaust to push the car forward instead of sideways, well you can see they are laying the pipes back....but NHRA put an angle limit on them.....
Nitro means you are watching a bomb on wheels. In ye olden days I remember 2 guys in balaclavas with machetes ready to cut the seatbelts at the start line. Cool as fuck and as real and extreme as it gets.
Please tell me you protected the little kid’s ears. This is not a joke - a kid is especially vulnerable to catastrophic hearing loss, and no amount of coolness about an activity changes that. Don’t let something you’ll regret the rest of your life and hers happen.
Nitro is a full contact sport that you not only watch but feel every second of the run ..must see it 8n real life to live the full experiance ..there's bo sport more violant and with precision than nitro
IDK, kind of a dick move to not give them ear protection at least for the first race. Then they can decide for themselves if they want to keep them on. You don't need to go deaf to experience the intense sound/feeling.
A nitro run has a decibel level that is so intense, that it makes your internal organs quiver from the sound waves. What a rush.
It made my eyes vibrate inside my head...
allan polk yes sir you are almost right! The displacement of air coming out of the exhaust and the sound that this makes is the SOUND you hear so that's why I sound you were almost right!
An actual shock wave hits you as they go by.
Hope your heart is strong enough...
@@baggieshorts1406 So far my heart is fine.
I’m 71 going on 17, but I love drag racing and every other kind of automotive racing for that matter.
I love that the crowd cheers after every run. They do it because the experience is awesome.
You actually get revved up yourself, the SOUND, the ground shaking, the concussion, is sooo fine, then comes the smell!! :-)
Thanks YT for recommending the video after 13 years
Guaranteed if your not ready for it it’ll blow you off your seat. Literally and figuratively......freakin AMAZING!
Seattle is where John Force got his 150th win in Funny Car and Austin Prock got his first ever career win in Top Fuel. What an awesome weekend it was for John Force Racing
Nothing like being there in person tv doesn’t do it justice
Eric Smith that's when you have a 1,000 watt surround sound turn all the way up in absence of the real thing.
Saw my first race in 1964, I was 11 y/o. My brother-in-law was racing a 63 Ford Galaxie with a 427 ci. I remember Top Fuel cars were still front engine with no reverse, they pushed 'em back after burnouts. Remember the first "Funny Cars", too. Saw Don Garlits race the 1st rear engine Top Fuel car in 1971 and now, at 65 y/o I still love the roar and the smell of nitro in the night.
back in the day in UK .U had a Car at the Back 2 Push Start Them . at Santa Pod Raceway
Totally agree bro. 180 decibels is ear piercing then x2 at the 4 wide x4 WOW,
Noble Eagle Sure and you get to hear an announcer 100 times louder than the car!!!
Just Absolutely Enjoy Bringing New Folks To The Drag Races ,Great Fun ,Nothing Else Like It !!!
GOD I Love the sights sound's smell and feel of a top fuel Drag Racing weekend🏁
And of course, there’s that smile that says it all. Now you know why we’re here.
Ahhhh the good old days when the track was full of good people. Now it looks like a ghost town.
50 000 hp used to roar there....now it's a ghost town
@@rodrigorecalde718 So sad isn't it 😑
Hurts my ears to listen Shannon, It burns my eyes to see.........
Unlike anything else you will ever experience - fantastic
sad
@@siriosstar4789 Yes, you are.
I love it! I like when you right up at the staging line and they leave from the tree and you can feel the percussion on your body. Lol.
You never forget your first time
I remember my first time too. The condom leaked. Lol.
@@joewoodchuck3824 "And that's how i met your mother" ..
Someone had to..
@@nunofernandes8857 Thanks ever so much. She just recently passed away.
I am motorsports photographer that often shoots nitro cars, IMO this is the best place to watch from because the clutch locks up right around this point and they are really working the engines hard.
Best Sound Capture on UA-cam. As best one can.
Nothing like it for sure. It doesn’t just affect the sense of hearing but the sound resonates through your whole body. It’s unbelievable to say the least.😳😮🤭
I remember the first time I saw one of those races like that that s*** goes right through your body when they pass bye wild as hell
Just from the exhaust gasses being expelled from the engine creates roughly 450lbs of downforce! Those machines are amazing!!!
Its more like 1500 lbs or so.
People's reactions are priceless. If you never went to to an event you will not be disappointed it's so awesome the feeling you get when they launch. Undiscribable so much fun
Many years ago while at Darlington drag way, I was right up on the starting line within 50 feet of the cars. I have been to many events but never that close to the cars. When they took off, it scared me that my inside were vibrating. What a rush.
2 nitro drag cars once recorded 2.3 on the Richter Scale!! That's a small earthquake!!!
Tractor pulling has to be one of the loudest Motorsports in the world. Drag racing is the loudest and tractor pulls are the second loudest.
She seriously has no ear protection? WOW! No way in hell. I’m surprised her ears aren’t bleeding! Easily the loudest thing I’ve ever heard. Growing up and living an hour from Indy has afforded me the ability to see some incredible drag racing through the years. I was lucky enough to see Big Daddy, Shirley Muldowney, The Snake and many others up through John Force and then some. Back when I was a kid and each team would not only pass out 8x10 posters of their funny car or top fuel car in action, the drivers would sign them for you. You name the famous driver and I very likely had their autograph on their small poster. When I went to college, my mother took it upon herself to “get rid of clutter” in my room. She thought they were all just printed autographs and they got circle filed. Yeah...it took many years to get over that. MOM’S! LOL!!!
my kinda lady
The one event I've been to that has outdone this was the launch of Apollo 11 at the Cape back in '69. THAT was something to live through!
Some excellent camera work right there
I'll bet the girl had to set down , probably pissed her pants. Hahaha
Welcome to the world of nitromethane drag racing
I dont care how tough you think you are you will get a reaction the first time.
God bless 💕 you girl. This I's living
The sound of top fuel had changed over the decades from 159 mph now to 335 mph back then it was noisey now its insane
Shannon's make-up remover tip : just a dab of Nitro Methane on a cotton ball
Also turns grown men into little boys who want to play with cars
I remember when I was a spectator of drag racing a long time ago, I really wanted to be a drag racer. And then I realised if I became a racer, I'd miss the experience of being a spectator. So I decided to remain a spectator, and I never lost a race :)
- But as a spectator you never get to experience of being pushed back in your seat when you laleunch your car or the feel of being slammed into your "seat belts" when you pull the chute as you cross the beams or the emotions of the joy from winning race, or better yet an event or drivers championship and as the saying goes the agony of defeat on that day when your best wasn't quite good enough and every other emotion in between. I remember my first time I drove my car down the track it was June, 18th, 1983 at the sadly now closed 75 and 80 Drag-A-Way in my 1971 Plymouth Satellite with a freshly installed 383 that I had built under the guidance of a neighbor of mine
who raced an Alcohol Funny car
@@gullreefclub Hell yeah positive and negitive Gforce. While keeping the Dragon under control It's a Rush🚀
lol
Done both, being a spectator is a superior experience.
@@MacSmithvox oh wow. Variety is the spice of life though I guess. I probably "fan" the most over super gas. I enjoy watching nitro racing, bit it's different. It's like a quarterback studying film on monday
good resolution for a video from before 2010.
I always feel for the tyres.
That side of the track at SIR is definitely more intense for sound and feel.
It's nitro when you look down and your clothes are rippling from the sound waves😵😛😬
First drag meet was Santa Pod 1989.
Let's do that ecstasy tab. Split it before goin in the gate. Handed the tablet to him out of courtesy and he necked it all, expecting me to have split it.
All nite rave ,- cancelled. I slept like a baby, him outside gurning in the rain.
I so remember bringing my wife and sons to Island Dragoway back in the seventies when Don Garlits was running his Swamp Rat. The effect on my wife was similar but she fell over.
I have to go see this 😃
Baptism by nitro!
Lol....the sound of massive power.
Another great reaction video but I just hope that they at least had ear protection for their child.
And that's what 10,000HP sounds like...
yes they are f ing loud and they are fing fast
She was OG w/it...
that looked like English Town, NJ...?
Please tell me you had ear protection on that kid...
The first thought I had.
Those cars are so loud, that even watching from the stands that you can yell at the top of your lungs, and you will not hear yourself when the cars go racing by!! Oh yea, and the ground literally SHAKES!!!
I still say that to experience the full effect, you have to be at or near the starting line. I've seen "first timers" curl up into the fetal position from that sound.
Kid Should have EAR PLUGS ON
@Merc Rogue you beat me to it. It feels like a bee in your ear.
Oh Jesus , I’ve been to several events anywhere from 5-50 years old and I’ve had several ear tests over the years . You know when I felt a problem in my right ear ? While listening to music too loud as a teenager! Not from a nitro burning funny car or dragster.
I hate stupid “ doo gooders “ “oh you should do this” and “you shouldn’t do that” etc... shut up !!!
@@robertd5674 and now you're telling people what they should do
Shut up Peter, mind your own business douche
A team from Ypsi I hear. Right on. Awesome reaction!
the Kallita family is from there.
1st time i went back in the 90s...i told people it was like there was a sheet of plywood in front of me and someone hit it with a sledge hammer..and i loved the pits. .id stand there n hold my breath long as i could snot runnin out my nose when they first cranked them..i miss it sooo much...Memphis sux for losing the mid south nationals
adrian kripp not far of a drive to ATL
memphis 1993 !!! i got autographs from bernstein, and eddie hill (first to the 4's)
I was there!
Many years ago I ran some numbers on a top fuel car, and the power just in the exhaust, and showed them to some Top Fuel guys I knew, like Wes Cerny and others and the numbers were staggering, imagine dropping a cylinder on a car and the change in Exhaust is enough to blow the car sideways and changes a lane, I asked them why they don't use the obvious massive thrust in exhaust to push the car forward instead of sideways, well you can see they are laying the pipes back....but NHRA put an angle limit on them.....
Nitro means you are watching a bomb on wheels. In ye olden days I remember 2 guys in balaclavas with machetes ready to cut the seatbelts at the start line. Cool as fuck and as real and extreme as it gets.
Hearing protection people
Now thats 100% AMERICAN!
Please tell me you protected the little kid’s ears. This is not a joke - a kid is especially vulnerable to catastrophic hearing loss, and no amount of coolness about an activity changes that.
Don’t let something you’ll regret the rest of your life and hers happen.
get that baby some ear plugs
Skip to 1:40
She's a keeper.
Nitro will get your adrenaline pumping....
Imagine a large explosion. Now expand that loud explosion for about 4 seconds over 1/4 of a mile.
what did the kid next to her think I wonder?
Very good quality for 2008
Nitro is a full contact sport that you not only watch but feel every second of the run ..must see it 8n real life to live the full experiance ..there's bo sport more violant and with precision than nitro
What a Cool way to define top fuel racing broterman
Yes, indeed, nitro fueled dragsters can be a test of your bone density. X-ray not needed.
Love it want to take my wife and let her experience the thunder. Gator national's best place on earth.
Every stands nobody sees
dont turn your head
Now you kid will forever have to sit in the front of the class
How can those engines keep intact to do what they do!?
If anything its practicaly a nuke going off but yet restraining itself withn those 8 cylinders.
Did you say that L O U D? Lol! 😁
😢 gone from E-Town
Who the hell is Shannon
Sure beats golf!!! Lolol
Looks like Camera persons first time to. Moving around way too much. Lol good job
The hair will be standing up on the back of her neck for a month of Sundays lol
The kids deff now
what?
@@ArtGoudey HE SIAD T H E K I D I S D E A F N O W , and me too from being to close to running wide open motors .
Wives vibrating in the stands are hot
You should’ve provided that sweet girl with some EAR PROTECTION!
Why am I deaf, mommy?
You better go there in diapers! Forkin'hell
Effing zoomies
Good place for hearing protection. I hope that little kid had ear plugs in. Huh? What did you say?
Those dragsters sound like one of my farts !
You better go get checked lol
i wonder if that has ever made anyone puke.
Go to Isle of Man
$10,000.00 a run
dotn
I hope they had ear protection on the kid.
Yea how long before this is banned
IDK, kind of a dick move to not give them ear protection at least for the first race. Then they can decide for themselves if they want to keep them on. You don't need to go deaf to experience the intense sound/feeling.
Block her view and yap insistently....
YAWN
First haha
Molar made most of these possible
Mopar forever
Does the camera man have parkinsons?
So stupid that people don’t wear ear plugs.
long and boring