NHRA Midwest Nationals - Friday 

Yes please 🙏

They always figure it out by finals day.

@@guns-gas-diesel yep but I've never seen during qualifying or eliminations where only a few Top Fuel cars from both classes made a entire pass. Based on what I seen it looked like the track wasn't prepped enough

@@joen5332 A combination of decent air and a good track, a lot of teams tried to rotate the earth. It's a fine line from hero to zero!

@@garyjackson3531 so what you're attempting to convince me is that at least 85% of the teams we're going in the wrong direction

@@joen5332 Wouldn't be the first time! Plenty of teams took it right down town. If Fuel racing was easy everyone would be doing it!

Can't sell ad time for drag racing in those prime spots...Sundays are easier to sell

@@nitroeze I take it all back.....If NHRA posts a 2 hour Friday & a 2 hour or more Saturday qualifying video with NO commercials or ads I'd much rather watch it here on RU-vid 😀😀😀

Blame feetball. On an interesting note, Maple Grove had better TV ratings in the key demographics than the NASCAR elimination race at Bristol the same weekend.

futball college garbage!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Auto racing is a sport of intelligence unfortunately our country on the by and large doesn't have the patient and the mechanical knowledge to really know what's going on

@@jeremysloane3921 That's not true.

NHRA has had Sunday evening/night races before. I think TV has a lot to do with scheduling. It would be cool to see a night race at say Denver, where it gets plenty hot. We used to go to the AHRA Nationals at Alamo Dragway in San Antonio. Really hot there in the summer! The Sunday eliminations started late afternoon and often went into the late night. Of course their weekly racing on Saturday evening/night often ran well into the early hours of Sunday morning! Before live TV/Same day coverage, it wasn't uncommon for an NHRA race to run into the evening. Live TV changed everything. But I'm with you. A night race, maybe a Saturday night race, would be cool!

@@garyjackson3531 yeah, St Louis used to be a night race, I think a big part of that was because it was just so ungodly hot there, but I agree I wish there was more night qualifying and night races throughout the year! I worked on nitro cars for a big name team and it's an ungodly amount of work, but from a crew, team owner, driver's standpoint I don't think they care too much but I remember we were at, it was either Pomona or Phoenix, don't quote me on that but we ran fairly early in the day and we had the car backfire and damage the brand new body. We're still at the track until 1:00 a.m. fixing it! And this was on a Saturday afternoon, it wasn't a massive funny car fire but we had a good portion of the body torn apart, they wanted to keep using it because it was so much lighter than the body from the year prior. It definitely has a bit to do with sponsors and such being able to attend the race at a reasonable time coupled with tradition and well the people that are paying all the money lol

Madison, Illinois. In the shadow of St Louis, Missouri.

That’s shows the driver exactly where the crew chief wants him to lay down rubber. May not realize it,there’s bald spots over all that track long about the staging lanes. Sometimes there is,sometimes there’s not depends on how much of the rubber they take with em’once the tree drops.

EL HALCON. All classes except top fuel run 1/4 mile (1320’). Top fuel are so fast, >500 km/hr, that NHRA shortened the run to 1000’. Racetracks are often too short for the drivers to get stopped safely, even with parachutes!