Who cares?? It was fuel burning in the exhaust header collector. You think someone should be there, along side the car, blowing out the flames as it goes down the track too?? 🤷🏻🤦🏻
*I worked at a Buick dealer when they were sold. We referred to them as K Mart Corvettes. Slick looking cars with junk 3 main bearing 4 cylinder crank devouring engines, headlight linkage eating total POS. German engineering at its worst*
@@schizy When I was a teenager in the 70s, my neighbor had one, it couldn't have been very old, and if I'm remembering right, it sat more than he drove it, I don't know what was wrong with it, but he didn't get to drive it much. My Step Father was a Buick man, we had a 73 Electra at the time, so it seemed like a toy.
The first one, the mustang having to lift to keep from wearing "another bumper" off reminded me of my Omni bodied car at Milan dragway one day. It came up and just wasn't going to come back down on it's own until the bumper was worn half way up the quarter so I lifted a little, it finally set back down after the 60'. I have no clue what it ran, I nearly shit my pants, immediately went back to the trailer, loaded up and left and had a set of bars on it for the next week. I supposed if I raced in a class that didn't allow them I'd figure a way to deal with it but setting it up to bump and put the front end right back down makes the car so much more consistent and let's face it, us poor guys are bracket racing. Consistency is everything.
Aw, the good old days. Whittier Boulevard. My '72 Chevelle with the 400 Pontiac wouldn't break a 12 second quarter but stood on her hind legs. The bench seat? Sexy as hell with the glass-packs and the 5 spoke Cragars.
"Stood on her hind legs", but couldn't run better than 13's in the quarter? C'mon man, I've been drag racing since the 90's, and I've NEVER seen a 13 second car pull the wheels, not even close. A 72 Chevelle with a Pontiac motor in it... Now that's quite a mutt.
55 chevy at 5:55 has changed its mind and decided to park itself back where it was before it was a drag car. It would rather sit in the woods and rust away again, LMAO.
Damn, always hurts me seeing these beautiful cars getting destroyed, my heart goes out to all the guys who spend thousands of hours and dollars building these things lol
@@1994clue It's NOT the track workers responsibility to put out YOUR burning car. You carry your own extinguisher in the car, or install a Halon fire system made for race car fires.
Always makes me laugh when they say "stay back,let the safety crew do their thing" then a load of people wearing shorts and vests start running down the track,lol and the last one,when the fire started did that bloke try blowing it out before trying with his foot? Good effort though🤣
E tanta potência que o chassis torce na passagem e o carro perde o centro de gravidade que acaba destracionando e vai direto no muro de contenção . São verdadeiras máquinas de tirar o fôlego. Parabéns.kkk
Can someone who is into drag racing explain why they wouldn't use locked diffs for straight line drags? It looks like a lot of crashes are caused by too much torque on one tire.
All these crashes were caused by having way too much power for certain vehicle. You can't have a couple of tousands horsepower in you car and pretend like everything will be ok every time. It's only a matter of time. Ask pro's.
What good is a fast car if your ass end never stays behind you or you nearly flip backwards? Some of these are just ignorant. Guy @5:50 decided to go off-roading I guess. Nice save
@@graveyard13 R. Bet his heart was like pumping massive doses of Adrenaline when he started to slide, and thinking he was going to crash into that cement barrier? He pulled it out at the end tho. Lots of cash in those cars.
Yeah, ridiculously powered engines, stupid drivers,, stupid spectators and best looking cars turned to be mutants, all contribute to world's most boring and stupid car event called : DRAG RACING...I can not beleive, those people who created such beautiful cars enjoy such a silly kind of event.
@@mehmetmutluoglu1542 beautiful? Lol I'm certain half the people that race them don't think so and they don't build them for that reason unfortunately. Simply one of the most unattractive mustangs ever, right next to the 99-04 series.
after years of racing you'd think they make the lanes bigger or have a new system of side rails the fact that they live in the past keep them from progressing in to the future
Bigger lanes? No, it's part of the sport. As far as guard rails go, yes, they have been greatly improved. Some older tracks can't afford to upgrade them. I'd rather take the old rails, rather than no track to race on at all.
Yes. It's tough to stick upwards of 800hp, even in a car set up for drag racing, on a prepped track. Any little amount of moisture, oil, or even dirt on the racing surface will cause slicks to lose grip and make the car dart to one side or the other. Drag racing tires run at really low pressure (like 8-10psi) and have almost zero sidewall, so when the car starts swapping around sometimes all the driver can do is hang on and try to keep it off the guardrail
@@notbilal1480 or is it a (i forgot the name) when you shift back a gear and your RPM goes over its limits (for example in beamNG drive then it happend but my engine almost locked up and the valvetrain got damaged from over-rev damage) and it usually happens on manual transmission cars or all other transmissions that arent automatic.
I wonder how much horsepower it costs to wheelie all the way up like that. As in, how much less horsepower are you using to accelerate because you're putting that energy into raising the front of the car up? I'm bored, and I want to finally put my engineering degree to use, so let's figure it out. Horsepower is work divided by time, so to calculate that, you need the weight of the front of the car, the height it's being raised to, and the total amount of time it takes to raise the front all the way up. I'm going to approximate those values to be 1000 kg, 4 meters, and 1 second, respectively, so this is not going to be an exact result, though it will probably be within an order of magnitude of the real value for a drag car that's in the same class as the ones in this video (as in, it's a front engined production car that's been modified, not some crazy carbon fiber contraption). I'm also not taking into account the energy it takes to accelerate the front of the car upwards, just the work it takes to lift it there. So, force = N = g * mass = 9.81 m/s^2 * 1000 kg = 9810 N; work = J = force * distance = 9810 N * 4 m = 39240 J Power = W = work / time = 39240 J / 1 s = 39240 W Horsepower = W / 745.7 W/hp = 39240 W / 745.7 W/hp = 52.6 hp So,. there it is. You waste around 50 horsepower by pulling a wheelie instead of keeping all four wheels on the ground. Of course, increased air resistance and the fact that you have zero control over the car and don't even know if you're heading toward a wall are much more significant reasons for why wheelie-ing will hurt your time, but I think this one's cool because it's more subtle.
While you may spend power lifting the front, once that's happened I'm sure the increased traction due to the weight shift will at least make up for it. Somewhat of a guess though.
I can"t argue your math, but torque and gear ratio are more important during the launch, so is a factor of the rear-end set-up known as the "instant center" which is adjustable to KEEP from wheely-ing. So straight "engineering" math just won't work.
@@peterdarr383 Well, agreed, I mean none of that math has any predictive power to tell when or if the car will wheelie. That's also not really the spirit of why I did the calculation. I mean, if you took a 50-ish horsepower car with perfect traction and set it off, no one would expect it to just stay in the same place and wheelie, just as you wouldn't expect a 10,000-ish horsepower car with no wheelie bar to stay level the whole time it accelerates, even though both have enough power to move the front of the car up in a second. I was more just wondering how much straight engine power you use to put the front of the car in the air instead of accelerating forward.
@@craig3.0 But you would need to know the coefficient of friction for the tires, and the center of gravity related to the contact patch. FIRST - imagine the "moment of wheelie" for a tractor and chain pulling a stump. That does not have a moving vehicle in the equation. So, what makes a car wheelie?? The force of the contact patch drawn thru the center of gravity. You have to calculate a force that exceeds gravity for the whole vehicle relative to the center of gravity, where the vehicles mass causes it to wheelie. You are thinking of power, where you need to think of balance... ... After re-reading your comment, the LOSS would be to roll a wheelie well beyond a certain tipping point, and the car would be SLOWER than having a smaller wheelie. All the energy of a wheelie would return to accelerating the car in a small wheelie. A ridiculously large wheelie would waste energy in drag, wasted traction, and of course an impact and letting off.
None gets "wasted". If my car does a nice even wheelie, sets it down gently, and I don't have to pedal it or pull second gear early to control it, the car can easily run the exact same E.T. if it does a wheelie or not. If it "wasted 50 h.p.", that would DEFINITELY show up as a reduction in E.T. in the time slip. If the car wheelies, the ONLY reduction I will see in the time slip is in the 60' time, because I'm tripping the clock beam with my back tires instead of the front tires. As a matter of fact, my personal best E.T. and MPH pass so far has been WITH a wheelie. So, I don't agree that any power has been "wasted".
Damn this hurts to watch. im not a Ford fan even tho i own a 01 Lightning that does low 11s but i hate watching any of these cars hit the wall regardless of the make or model.
Are these 1st time racers? Looks like they've never experienced torque or ever had a practice run. I used to run 1/4s n 1/8s in my father rods and the only time I ever almost lost it was the very 1st pass I ran with a 442 olds, that 2nd gear made my britches dirty.
The car at 5:40 is a good example why you put walls around race tracks. That car was awefully close to the spectators, they would be dead if that car came flying and crashed into them.
