I had just watched an 8 sec video before this 7 sec run. Wow, the 7 seemed soooooo much faster. And the way the 11 sec car got reeled in was really nice to watch. Thanks for this video. It is the first one I have seen like it. I had a bike that was 11.0 at 125. This really puts things in perspective. And to think what a 4 sec run by top fuel would look like against this 11 sec......wow.
+lw216316 1 second is huge, think about this, lots of the races you see on pinks all out or many other drag shows you get car lengths shown are less than a second difference, sometimes truly fractions of a second.
Its a Mac Sherrill Slip Tube Car. I am not used to driving the stripe with an 80 mph speed difference and we were just doing some testing. I went 10&2 and never looked back. Fortunately I turned on the win light. Fun race. Certainly different I used a Go Pro Camera on the highest setting.
Back in the early 60s I use to get Hot Rod Magazine in the mail each month....That was a great time to be alive...That very magazine had a picture of Evel Knievel jumping his bike....In the picture, the editor had circled a piece of debris about 6 foot under the stuntman's Triumph motorcycle...And I'm talking the bike was 30 feet in the air.....The caption red, it's the rubber part of the foot-peg had came off in med air....I loved Evel Knievel ever since I saw that picture....And I don't know why but that one picture made me think about all the things that can go wrong in the sport that I love.... And then, the very next month Big Daddy Don Garlits had a terrible engine exploded on him and then he had the accident where he lost half of his foot....We didn't hear anything from his camp after that.... For maybe 6 months or more...But the next season when he showed up...Wow!!....You talking about dominating the competition....But what Mr, Garlits did probably saved many lives too...What the man did, and... I mean the man... was reinvent the modern Top Fuel dragster...Where the driver seats in front of the bomb...That's what they were calling it that year were talking about it... Now that I think about it...Wasn't it the clutch assembly coming apart that got his foot... The jury is still out on that...Either way it happen during that terrible wreck.... And drag racing was much safer from then on.....And one last thing....Don Garlits is a great American....You should hear him talk on any subject....He always brings everything back to life lived in a wonderful country....Sir, I know I'm brain washed because all my heroes were patriots to an idea call America....And you can't kill an idea.....Awesome video.
My car was broke down, but my friend who had a super comp roadster convinced me to run my tow van in street. So I did. In trial I went up against a super comp dragster in my 23.9 second van. Baton Rouge 1/4 mile, of course I left first, I kept watching in the mirror and when I got what seemed like 150' from the line I thought, "he's broke" so I let off, just as I did I see a puff of smoke, I stomped the pedal and he went flying by me before the finish line.
It always feel so strange to be racing like this in front of completly empty or almost empty grandstands, like the one you were racing in front of, in a way it's like NASCAR, people really pack the stands for the BIG BOYS of NASCAR, but if it's a lower part of it, say the Camping truck series for instance, people dont come out as much for that, now if this was the top of the crop for the NHRA, those stands you were driving in front of would have been probably filled all the way to the top
A lot of people don't appreciate the lower classes in NHRA, because they don't shake the stands or blow your eardrums out like the Nitro cars do. I, however love watching the other classes run. Super Stock, Super Street, Stock, Top Dragster, Alcohol, Pro Mod.. I enjoy them all equally, because I understand that those cars are hand-built in a garage by the guy who's running it. I also like the variation. Super Stock, Super Street, Stock, Top Dragster, Pro Mod, no two cars look the same, and all can be built 100% differently.
talk about making it look like the other guy is sitting still ! I'm guessing he is about 120 and you are approaching 200. imagine a top fuel coming by at 325 !
I watched it at 1/4 speed and it looks like he the dragster nosed the the stripe first. Not sure if there was a breakout or not and I could not see if there was a win light on either side of the track.
That is one noisy ass thrashing machine. Kinda sounds like the 1968 Gleaner combine I used to run. That thing would quiet right up and purr like a kitten once you put oil in it. Maybe they should try that.
Great vid. If thats a Go-Pro what settings are you using? After messing with mine it's still pretty white out of the windshield during TT's. When the sun is off to the west of the track and at night its perfect?"
When you say "Top" dragster, ...how do you mean that? I've only ever heard that for Top Fuel or Top Alcohol, neither of which this car is - obviously. Could it be Top ET ?
Everyone knows not to come lean in the car and talk and point at things. I never needed help from a watcher. Except for my wife doing the air pressure in the tires. Get the hell out of the way and watch my win light come on.
Hey the tree at my track doesn't have the first amber flash like the one you have. Do you know what system? or program? the tree is running on?. unlike you I gotta leave on the other guys first amber. thanks
