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'll always remember my first attendance to the NHRA Northwest Nationals. I got to watch legends like John Force, Joe Amato, Eddie Hill, Warren Johnson, Bob Glidden, Ricky Smith, Darrel Alderman, Connie Kalitta, and Angelle Seeling in her early years of Pro Stock Motorcycles. Been attending races throughout the years and sitting in the exact same seats every year. Sadly, 2023 was my last year attending as a decline in health will be keeping me away from from the 2024 event at Pacific Raceways (I don't hold up very well in the Summer heat on those bleachers and suffer from annoying dizzy spells). Neverthess, I do hope to see 'yall at the annual Goodguys Rod and Custom Car Show in Puyallup... can't miss that one!! 👍😁👍
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.
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.
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
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!!!
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 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!!!
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
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.
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.
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.....
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 !!!
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.
