The 400 Thunder Top Fuel Championship resumes at Willowbank Raceway with the New Year Thunder, as the title fight between Lamattina Top Fuel Racing and Rapisarda Autosport International reignites.
Love to see American getting a win in top fuel drag racing, hope she goes all the way. I enjoy all the cars, it's not easy moving 10,000 HP down the track safely. so much fun to watch.
Iv seen these races as kid only time .can just remember the feeling u get your chest and the vibration in the ground. Was amazing.just like the monster trucks .the rumble the power is additive. .love raceing anything with a motor I'll watch ..
Motor racing is a combination of team, technology, technical, physical performance, determination, drive, money, performance, sponsorship, experience and look!
I love the santos summer thunder drag races can’t wait to come back in January next year and I love the atura drag racing too and lots of loud and very very fast dragsters to see
Great race Ladies,Pity kwinana MotorPlex discrimanates against people in wheel chairs, I would love to see the racing community help make this wheel chair friendly, people in wheel chairs have to sit right at the top furtherest away from the trax. Please help
I’d like to see a top fuel team convert over to turbo and/or turbos! (if it is even possible) If you’d told me 10 years ago that turbo technology would become so great, they’d be dominating every other power adder, I would have never believed it but it seems like that’s exactly what is happening...
I don’t believe turbos would suit top fuel at all. Or top alcohol. Others have tried quad cam motors (McGee Brothers), 3 valve motors (Sainty) in top fuel and none have worked. That’s why teams stick with what works: Hemi motors, super chargers and nitro. The wheel works fine, why invent a new one?
How can you lose in round one yet end up in a final round? not a criticism just a query. The more racing the fans see the better imo. Fantastic cover thanks for posting.
Because we have only 8 running top fuel cars in the country at any given time i guess we try and make sure we see all thhe cars as much as we can lose first round race loser of same round to progress
Don't need much endurance for Drag racing, just a strong core, and 'balls' of steel, then hang on for grim death. I love seeing the girls beat the guys.
Driving the car for 4 seconds is about fthe least important part of the game. My mother could do it........technically. Getting the car to stay togetther for that time is where the skill is and girls(technically) could be just as skilled at that as anyone. But are they?😈
Get your shit together announcer.. Its not 11 thousand horsepower. You mean to say 11 hundred horsepower. That's 1,100 HP not 11,000 HP. Krikey..they are not riding the Saturn V. LOL
They're actually often cracking 11000 horsepower these days, and the Saturn V was orders of magnitude above that. There's street cars around making 1100 horsepower (although that's on the pretty extreme end for a street car), of course top fuel would still leave them for dead.
Michael Stuart..... I have an "ole saying" for you to consider, and it goes like this.... "It is better to be thought of as a fool, than to open your mouth and remove All doubt!!"...... if you don't understand that saying, then let me put it to you this way... KNOW your "stuff" before flying off at the mouth. I am, an American.... was licensed in NHRA for nearly 20 years and raced in numerous dragster classes from the old classes of D/D to A/D, B/D & C/ED... the "old" Original Jr. Fuelers and TA/D. In Australia, they are still running a full 1320.. Not the current 1000ft NHRA went to after Scott was killed at E-Town, (and others before him). Many of the NHRA tracks were built back when 120 plus AA/FD's (T/F in today's "world") would show up for meet, and the top end speeds hadn't even reached 180 yet, never mind 200 to 300 plus, mph....in other words, they were (and Are) Outdated... in terms of sufficient shut down area in relation to "today's" speeds in the top three "pro" classes, not to mention T/A and Pro-Mod and which was "one of" the key factors in NHRA's decision to shorten the pro-classes to 1000ft. There are various gas class dragsters (and "door slammers") today... that are running significantly quicker And Faster, than the Fuelers and AA/GD's were when many of NHRA's dragstrips were first "laid down". There have been NHRA T/F & F/C teams that have gone to race in Australia, and got their butts handed to them on a "silver platter".... the "air" down-under is different than here, very dense and requires much different tuning and "can be" very frustrating to get a handle on and get it right.... as evidenced in the "Seemingly" (at least it seems so) higher ratio of engine/parts destruction compared to their counterparts here in the US, UK and even Sweden. Also, I have been to Australia many times... and to Willowbank Raceway, as well as the Go-Kart tracks (2) and a Road Racing circuit that are all in very close proximity to the dragstrip (all within a mile of each other!!)... and the people there are Great!!
Most of the performance of these cars is not measurable. Most of the technologies developed are not suitable for road applications. The engines break after 5 seconds of use. These guys shall be poor. Where is money coming? Oil companies. Hey, but this over-cost is paid by everyone that buys gallos of fuel for road use!! Never seen anything worse in engineering. No engineering.
Eva Paz.... Where do get your "information" from?.... a comic book? In what way is their "performance, Not Measurable"?? You're correct.... Kind Of, in saying that " Most of the technologies developed are not suitable for road applications.".... in a direct way, however...there have been MANY technologies developed over the decades within drag racing, that Have, in Fact....made it to the production lines (with some minor "tweaking" as it were to fit the application) of numerous automobile manufacturing plants. Also, FYI.... the "oil companies" have almost Zero involvement in the sport other than whatever oils various teams choose to use in their engines.... from gas to nitro. The Pro-classes of T/F and F/C as well as TA/D and TA/FC do NOT utilize fuels produced by the "Big Oil" companies. Nitromethane (CH3 NO2) is produced by various different chemical companies in many different forms for many different applications... from Dry Cleaning to Drag Racing to Rocket Fuel and many, Many things in between. It has NO effect whatsoever in the gas prices at the pump for your automobile.