8,000hp drag car rocks Goodwood
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2020
- Jason Phelps brought his 8.2-litre supercharged V8-powered Funny Car, capable of hitting 100mph in 0.8 seconds, to the Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard to show off exactly what top-level drag racing looks like #FOS #Funnycar #dragracing
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8,000... is that a typo?
@Small Boi Gaming standard top fuel Dragsters and Funny Cars run 7000-8000 horsepower, using mixture of kerosine and nitromethane. The fuel (basically aviation mixed with rocket fuel) is so corrosive the mechanics need to wear breathing apparatus and goggles to refuel. It's also part of the reason engines last no more than 3 runs at top level (and that's hopeful as 2 is the norm) and requires complete strip down every run as a matter of safety. The slingshot effect is what the sport is about as runs are measured by reaction time and overall time. Top fuel cars will often hit 250mph+ (some will hit 300mph) within a quarter mile. General build is tubular aluminium and fibreglass weighing as little as half a ton all in (power to weight in the reigon of over 13000hp per ton) for dragsters and a little heavier for funny cars (10000+ bhp per ton). The only other land based contraptions more viscious under accelleration are rocket sleds (even lsr cars are a more gentle experience than dragsters)
Driving one from a standing start is compared with sitting in your car at the lights, then being hit from behind by a massive truck doing 150mph, which doesn't slow down but accelerates after hitting you. Absolutely insane.
They've actually cracked 11,000 hp in the Top Fuel cars, the Funny Cars probably aren't too much less.
Top Fuel Dragsters are synonymous with the word "thunder" because when they pass by your vicinity during a race, the ground literally shakes below you like thunder. All of that energy produced from the engine (thousands of horsepower) has to go somewhere, in a world of thunder.
@Small Boi Gaming That's just the kid in me :)
Has no-one realised that the intake never fully open even once in this run? What you just witnessed was probably less than a quarter throttle! Pure insanity.
Absolute Zero have you ever watch nhra drag racing in person? It’s bonkers lol
Geebs Kerbal some run 300 mph in a quarter
@@geebskerbal2771 Oi, this is in the UK - NSRA if you please! 😉 (our drag racing is also FIA-sanctioned)
And about 10% clutch lock up....😉
@@fredericleederman3824 333 mph+
they learned to take corners with these. so nurburgring lap when?
Imagine the final stretch tho 👀
problem is they don't even have enough gas to get around the gp circuit let along the full thing. sadly
Imagine this in de la Sarthe. The Mulsanne Strait in less than 10 seconds lol
Somebody get Jimmy Broadbent on the case.
Record for fastest highest horsepower car ever on it to have unintentionally slowest lap time
These things literally shake your eyeballs when they run.
Greatest thing I've ever been to in my life. When 2 fuel cars launch it feels like I got punched in the stomach and I can't breathe for a few seconds.
I've only been once to any drag race and didn't really know what to expect (someone else took me along) but it turned out to be about as classic as it could get. 1977, Cayuga, Ontario, Canada. Shirley Muldowney was running her pink rail. She was sitting on top that year - NHRA Winston world points championship, becoming the first woman to claim drag racing's most prestigious title. Three NHRA titles back to back, etc. etc.
Also a surprise was seeing Linda Vaughn - "Miss Hurst Golden Shifter" You didn't have to be an NHRA fan to be aware of who she was. She knew her job; high heels and tiny hot pants and keep the crowd entertained between runs. She would have been 34 at the time.
ANYWAY, LOL. .. It wasn't the noise so much as the shock wave that went right through me, shaking up my chest as I sat well back in the bleachers.
I do remember Muldowney's ride in that period was 2,500 HP and topped out at 250 MPH in the quarter mile. How far they've come.
They also take your breath away, well mine anyway.
@@kumaWRX same here. unlike anything ive ever felt heard or seen. we were at gator nationals in Gainesville. amazingly, my little sister slept on the bleachers next to me while top fuel ran. its a running joke in the family now
@@HappyHarryHardon quite literally hahah
I adore drag cars, but the reaction of a pair of proper Brits showing their exuberant enthusiasm for this Funny Car was priceless, and utterly appreciated.
LOL 4- Sure :)
@@csmith9684 What are you talking about, get out of here!
I especially enjoy the part where they called the bleach used to warm up dragster tires: "water" 😃
"engine rebuilds per mile" lmao
@@BillStrathearn blimey, they stopped bleach in the 80’s. That car didn’t need water to break traction on cold tyres, it just gave the chaps in the white overalls something to do instead of prodding those pathetic wedges behind the rear tyres to prevent rolling back.
I used to film these cars at the drag strip and let me tell you, it is an experience. They shake absolutely everything around you and you can feel a pressure wave hitting your body as they take off. They really are insane.
A bit much on the explanation. I’ve been next to an F35 less than 50 feet away and that’s barely enough to shake your bones
@@goo5976 Go stand next to a funny car and then report back. You really have no idea.
@@goo5976 Mate, this the most common reaction. "It can be that m..." then REALIZATION.
@@goo5976 suggestion, go to a drag strip once when top fuel is running, just remember your ear defenders. The sound and vibration is like nothing else you will ever experience, I have stood behind concord at take off with all 4 afterburners on and a top fuel dragster is way more impressive, you can feel every single cylinder firing at idle, and then the tree goes green and they open the throttle.
@@goo5976 go to Santa pod during the finals weekend (9-11th sept) and you will understand. Worth also noting they run jet cars at Santa pod including the current fastest jet car over a 1/4 mile (fire force 3) and that machine still doesn’t hold a candle to top fuel cars.
I like how they’re taking a literal drag car onto a twisty road, lmao
I find this super novel.
I was wondering how it was gonna turn since those things pretty much don't have a turning circle.
@@theoriginalshew Well they do have to be able to turn enough to turn off the strip.
Worse than that, the track has *turns.*
imagine the driver turning the wheel like 3 full turns to take a mild corner
@@dallatorretduactually, picture a clock- 10 o'clock full L
2 o'clock full R..
That's it, not even 1 complete turn.
If you haven't seen one of these in person, you have no clue at how loud they are.
I tell people "Imagine the loudest thing you can and then multiply it by 5."
Your statement is the equivalent of "you know that thing you've never seen... well, you don't know how loud it is"....
you feel them in your chest! the amount of air being moved is so great that you resist the vibration!
Line up 2 side by side and at full throttle it pounds through your body. Raw power.
@@SALEENS7GTR5 that's a severe understatement for the majority of the world's population. 10 decibels is twice as loud as near 0, 20 decibels is 4 times louder, 30 is 8 times louder, etc. So every 10 decibels you double the loudness of 10 decibels prior. However, every 10 decibels increase adds a 0 to the intensity (10 decibels is 10 times as intense, 20 decibels is 100 times as intense, 30 is 1000, etc.)
These guys went to great lengths to run at goodwood👍 props to them and the team, I know Jason wanted to go the whole way up the hill in this monster too
Wed all love to see him try and get the car up the hill but at the moment to have gone that far in the most powerfull car ever on the goodwood hill is a start.
Still an amazing feat, the sheer work it entails to get it their, set it up, calibrate it for slow speeds, plus you can expect major overheating within minutes at that speed. I wanted to see it go all the way up also, but it would have been at the cost of the entire motor lol. Great showing though!
I did feel that, watching. Good show.
@@MaineLandReviews it might be hard to believe but all the cooling for these engines actually comes from the fuel being delivered. The block itself has no water channels in fact the only holes in it are for the cylinders and the crankshaft.
What team and driver was this
I love that it just said Ford Mustang on the graphic, like yeah just some ol muscle car.
@Justice Boofer I’m not a yank so I don’t.
@@Formula1st its only been around since 1964, you been living under a rock?
@@Formula1st the mustang is the most popular American sports car
@@alexander1485 I don’t think you get what I meant
@@alexanderbarcenas6224 yeah...
Theres something genuinely special about a gentlemen with an english accent getting stocked about drag racing it's like if a hick was commentating the left mans
So good, that was. They were like kids seeing ice cream for the first time.
The announcer is right. If you can, you MUST see a race one day.
I was lucky enough to have Englishtown Raceway Park about 1 hour from my house, and I grew up going to top fuel races. The sound is impossible to convey with words. It is so. damn. loud....your bones literally feel like they're shaking, and you don't really *hear* the sound so much as you *feel* it in your chest. It's incredible!
Been there also couple of time for Summer Nationals when they were still doing them there and one time I stood there when they took off, the guy in front of me ducked lol
Your NHRA just left Texas last week
My heart's with that place! I've raced karts there (rookie of the year 2006), I did the quarter mile, and I've been to NHRA. Best memories!
@@fread51 Just Houston. Dallas still has a race.
A Bugatti Veryon could start the quarter mile at its top speed and still lose to a top fuel dragster...
Ehhhh not really true but close. Fastest 1/4 mile lap ever set by a funny car was 3.802s by Matt Hagan in 2017. A Bugatti Veyron (not the Supersport) at its top speed (267mph) would hit a 1/4 mile in 3.37s. Still an unbelievably close race for a ~7,000hp difference.
@@MegaDoug1979 You're technically correct, which is the best kind of correct. NHRA shortened the length of Top Fuel and Funny Car races at sanctioned tracks to 1000ft after several brutal and fatal accidents in the modern era. If they ran out the full quarter mile, on a record tying run (which would undoubtedly be beaten by the modern cars today that hit the same and higher speeds in 320ft less distance) the Top Fuel or Funny Car dragster would win from a standing start against a Bugatti Veyron on a 267mph flying start.
Literally, they do not have tires and maybe will never be able to make tires that can handle what modern Top Fuel and Funny Car dragsters could do across a full quarter mile. Conservative estimates put the speeds in the 355-375mph+ range if they still ran them all the way out. No tire manufacturer has been able to make a tire that could still provide the level of grip needed and handle those kinds of speeds on anywhere near a consistent basis (last time I looked into it it's about a 50% failure rate, and that's with hundreds of millions of dollars of funding and untold thousands of man hours of engineering and mathematical work behind it).
They are faster than the laws of physics and human technological progress can accommodate. Oh, and nowadays, they make about 10-12,000HP. Or maybe they have been making that level of power for a decade previous and we simply didn't have a dynamometer that could reliably and accurately measure that level of power and torque without being turned into shrapnel.
You feel the sound in your chest a quarter mile away in the parking lot with grandstands and a mass of humanity separating the two of you. They have to notify local geological survey crews of upcoming events lest they report an active earthquake every time they make a pass. Racing is many things, but as a sheer engineering spectacle, NHRA and IHRA Top Fuel and Funny Car drag races are at the pinnacle. They may not be able to take a corner worth a damn but at the speeds they run you'd black out if you tried.
@DouglasMcCall...I am gonna have to correct your info because I guarantee a Matt Hagan funny car has even come close to a sub 4 second run over a 1/4 mile. And when referring to elapsed times, its quickest, not fastest.
@@codymoe4986 well I'm afriad I am going to have to correct you, even though I'm not a drag racing expert. Surely when it comes to elapsed times, it is the shortest (or least or smallest) that is best, 'quickest' refers to speed, not time.
@@neilcowan535 You are correct, you are not a drag racing expert and neither am I....but I do know what a hole shot win is...feel free to look up the term.
Nitro motors need to be experienced atleast once in your life.
Preferably a side by side Top Fuel race, so, 20,000 horsepower
Witnessing the launch , your eyeballs vibrate so your vision becomes blurry, as you are hit with the shockwave.
The look on people's faces in the crowd is priceless after their first time 😁
Or the dragstrips where they run 4 wide.
@@BIGBLOCK5022006 Could not believe it when they started that! Someday I have to go to N.C. to see NASCAR and Fourwide in the same week.
Its on my bucket list to go see the Charlotte Four-Wide nationals in person.
So the 1st time I saw them I thought I would be super cool and not put my fingers in my ears. My mate was looking at me like I was an idiot and there were people around us wearing all types of hearing protection. So I'm standing there near the start line and they launch and I've never been so consumed by sound. I'm turning away and realising the sound is behind me and I'm racing to get fingers to my ears but of course they are so fast they where gone by the time I blocked my ears. This was 25 years ago and I still remember the absolute assault on my senses.
when i was 14 i got to experience what seeing a top fuel car run felt like, and I can still remember how much i felt my entire body just vibrate from the sound waves
I guess Scotty Kilmer wasn't far off when he recommended to replace your engine every 3-4 miles...
@False Flag thank you finally someone agrees
@@RAYSGT Bimmer doesn't sound good. Plus B is pronounced Bee not Bih.
@sw4gr1d Scotty YTP lol
@False Flag I used to really enjoy his content then he stopped working on cars and actually showing mechanical stuff I have always had a hunch it's due to medical issues
You rebuild a top fuel motor after every quarter mile
What he says at the end is true. You need to see it in person to get the full effect. The literally ground-shaking, thundering, explosive power of a nitro burning V8 hemi dragster is an experience of a lifetime.
I remember as a kid I went to a drag strip and I remember pushing my earplugs in my ear just to even tolerate the loudness of those cars. Absolutely amazing
This is the first motorsport I ever fell in love with. You don't know how visceral the experience is being around one of these things until you see them in person. A fan for 30 of my 33 years and Top Fuel is still the coolest damn racing class on the planet!
But the best part of this video, is the announcer's reaction after the burnouts.
Ah, nothing like the smell and sound of a NITROMETHANE FUNNY CAR. Who agrees?
Love that smell!
My eyes are burning just thinking about it! So good!
I used to live 100' from the start at New England dragway, back when we could touch the guardrail! Glorious childhood
@@crazytrain7114 👍
Nothing like spending the rest of your weekend with red eyes as a result XD
1:41 goodbye hat!
Think of it this way: If an F1 car screamed down the front straight flat out at Goodwood at 210 mph (338 kph), and passed a top fuel or funny car dragster, just starting, the drag car would pass the F1 car before the end of the quarter mile and would be going 100 mph (146 kph) faster. The current top fuel 1/4 mile record is 338 mph (544) kph in 3.66 seconds.
Just an FYI, that record is to 1000 ft, they have shortened the race length bc the engines shred themselves to pieces the further you run. And now they can’t put it back to 1320 because at a guess these cars could hit 360 mph these days (11000hp) and tyres simply can’t be made to go that fast without blowing up.
@@benlowes8570 The death of Scott Kalitta pretty much was the nail in the coffin to shorten the distance. The track they were at had a pretty short, substandard run off area with a concrete wall at the end, too... resulted in a pretty significant fireball. As you said, tech advancements have certainly made the 1,000 ft even faster than the 1,320 used to be as they've gone from 6-8k horsepower to something north of 10-12,000 now along with better technology to put that power down.
"NHRA cuts race distance to 1000 feet: Move made to enhance safety after Kalitta's death. The NHRA has cut the race distance for its Top Fuel and Funny Car classes to 1000 feet--320 feet short of a quarter-mile--as a safety measure in the wake of the death of racer Scott Kalitta nearly two weeks ago." Jul 1, 2008
1:42 spot the gentleman taking photos/video on the upper left. You could even say he's having a blast.
His hat flew straight off!
Literally xD
love it lol
"Having a blast" . . . I see what you did there.
Haha well spotted
“ engine rebuilds per mile” LOL
If your in the UK, I suggest a day out at santa pod! Bedfordshire/Northamptonshire border. See these full throttle. I live 7 miles away and hear them.
Fun fact: by the time I've heard them from my location, the race is already over. Lol
If you're 7 miles away by the time you hear it, the next race is probably about to start.
First time I witnessed a top fuel car at speed I was standing mid track and the shock wave was so violent my vision was completely blurred. I briefly thought I had been injured somehow. It was Ashley Force.
The best part of Drag racing is that everyone has full access to the pit. You can walk around and watch all the different classes of cars up close, even the Top Fuel dragsters when they totaly take the engine down in to molecules. You won’t do that in F1 or Indycar.
My paddock wristband from today's Indycar race says otherwise, $10 for full paddock access. F1 is a tiny bit more expensive though haha
@@u-wot-n8 wow, never knew, really great!
@@Thellbro IMSA is totally free with general admission too
There are two types of loud sounds that I know, one is a fighter jet on afterburner the other is a top fuel dragster!
You should get to know old F1 loud, it’s crazy ear shredding loud (or as we know now as earraping loud)
@@hongthainguyen5334 old f1 doesnt come anywhere near this level of loud. This is 8,000hp with no muffler of any kind. A top fuel race with two cars measures around 2.5 on the Richter scale, literally as much as a small earthquake.
Jacob Coffelt Not near, but still enough to make ears bleed I think?
There is of course the final level - Avro Vulcan loud.
@@coffelt683 it literally IS a small earthquake, its unbelievable, when i was on the stands, 300 feet away u'd feel your surrounding shaking while your body vibrates.
Naturally, later i went up to the fence, 20 feet away from the start, getting sprayed with rubber and rendered immobile for a split second.
I used to watch Drag racing in the 80's as a kid. These are the most American of race cars. This is something I thought I'd never see at Goodwood. Most of the racetracks in the US are drag race tracks. Thanks.
Murica lol. This event really does bring everyone together
No attendants to hold the car at the line for this beast.
Super impressive they got this thing to run here, absolute props to Phelps and his team. That being said, nothing can touch the sound of one of these leaving the line giving it everything, not even the burnout can prepare you for that.
1:42 lol the camera man's hat on the left flies off
LOL, it gets launched!
I'd love to see THAT video...
Being American, it’s always funny seeing the insanely scared and hilarious reactions from British people when they see one
the fastest quarter mile time ever was set in Bedfordshire.
@@joelambert7128 At Santa Pod. As much as it's not as great a venue these days, it's definitely the heart of the British drag racing scene.
You don't hear this car you Feel It Your insides are pummeled by the pressure wave from this Beast. I go see 1/4m races all the time (FL) Huge Props for this team bringing this car & crew .. they put a lot of time & $cash$ for this 60sec event.
It's great to see the fastest sport in the world being shown to the uninitiated. But standing there at a true NHRA event and feeling two cars leave the line together is not unlike a bomb going off in front of you. It's to be experienced by anyone who loves cars. Only then can you appreciate what 8 or 9 thousand horse power really feels like. That half throttle thing that we just witnessed is just the tip of the power iceberg.
My hometown in the UK has a drag strip called Santa Pod. Would love to see this race there. Funny cars are epic!
I so wanna go to 4-wide nats too
You just have to love the classic British level of enthusiasm and excitement!
Holy Shoot, that thing is terrifying... But super frickin' cool! It sounds wicked!
You have no idea what it's like until you see one in person
I'm British and moved to California 20 years ago. I have observed NHRA top fuel dragsters at Sears Point raceway a few times. There is nothing else on the planet that can compare to the experience the sound and air pressure of a top fuel car as it leaves the line.
1:08 "A bit like being shunted up the back..." 😅
There was a really really good profile done just within the last few years of a top fuel team in the U.S. Sorry I can't remember the team but what a facility. It was more like a Silicon Valley tech home than the vision of a garage compound. They were throwing out all kinds of astronomical numbers for costs, number of spares, employees, engine specs. etc. I can't remember dozens of absolute numbers like "0.8s" as much as a simple description they gave the host.
When the rear wheels reach where the front wheels were when the light turned green, the car is already doing 100 MPH.
Went to my first NHRA event 3 years ago. Been going every year and absolutely hooked since then.
Wait... *it can turn!?!?*
Sort of...
Funny cars are alarmingly unstable in a straight line when compared to their Top Fuel cousins. If you watch onboard footage during an actual run, the driver is actively fighting the thing to keep it pointed generally in the right direction. You have half the wheelbase, all of the power, and none of the control.
Why wood it your on a drag strip videos. Your silly. When do 1/4 miles have turns? U sound Salty
A l it’s literally turning on the video lmao
A l Do you want to try and make a coherent comment? Or is this what you’re going with?
If youre ever in the states around the time a NHRA national event is near. Go
You feel your spine shake when 2 of these things set off at the same time and it is something else to believe
Bench Racer - It’s a mind boggling to see in person. Sensory overload and it’s like the entire earth is shaking. I agree, everyone should witness it in person.
Just pounds you in the chest when the light goes green 😍😍
@@montestu5502 Tell that to F1 fans, they will still argue their eco turbo V6s are way more enjoyable.
Commentator: ".. couple of thousand horsepower"
Car: *Laughs in Mustang*
motor: Laughs in HEMI
the moment the dude said that i instantly thought "oh yeah this guy is gonna get quite the shock"
when these things launch, you cant see straight, you cant breathe, and it accelerates so fast it doesnt even look real. truly something to be witnessed in person at least once in your life.
The sound from a distance is one thing, but being between two of these cars as they take off is something that you’ll never forget. It’s like standing in front of an entire speaker stack at a concert as the sound literally vibrates through your body. It’ll take your breath away.
I think goowood festival of speed event needs to build a drag strip for drag community thats whats missing at the event. Everyone else has their play ground except the drag community.
This strategy will definitely attract an additional community of car enthusiasts. Therefore a larger audience, and a segment of motorsports that is simple to understand, and to attract those who know nothing about cars from an entry level.
i respect that like a multi function start
They are especially cool to watch during the Saturday night qualifying runs at the NHRA Nationals in Indy
I sat in the front row right next to the start line for one funny car run and when they took off the vibration from the roar of the engine literally shook me like a cocktail and by the time I could actually see straight again the race was already over
That is awesome, kudos to Goodwood for the invite.
1:40 mans hat said "byee"
There is a drag racing strip in the US with FOUR lanes! Imagine 4 Top Fuel dragsters with 12-15000 bhp going at it...💥🌪💨💀
gotta love 4-wide nats
I grew up going to Raceway Park and Englishtown, NJ and would always go to the summer nationals. You really can't appreciate the power of these things until you witness it in real life. I remember being way up in the stands and you can actually feel the energy on your face from these things going down the 1/4 mile, it's indescribable. If you ever have the opportunity go see some top fuel dragsters.
There's nothing more exciting then going to an event and seen PROMODS.,FUNNY CARS AND TOP FUEL CARS., U ACTUALLY FEEL THE GROUND SHAKING AND MUST WEAR EAR PLUGS., ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!
I fully expected an alcohol motor for that. Nope! Hello fuel! That’s was awesome!
Absolutely incredible statistics!
Top Fuel dragster is more than just loud noises and fast speeds. It's literally an experience. You can't grasp how the whole body shakes when it goes full speed, your vision is blurry and its over before you even got time to realize what happend.
Its really a must for anyone and CZcams can't make it justice.
I feel like a kid watching that. Something so simple putting on a massive smile on my face. So cool
LMAO "Engine rebuilds per mile" XD
And hes being literal!
Goodwood, you need to give us the full shot of this, by the way lol.
That's it, drag cars can't make it further up the hill as it's too twisty and narrow.
Goodwood Road & Racing It isn’t too twisty, they’d have to pull a trailer full of fuel. You guys should read up on these race cars. This is automotive absurdity at its finest and will leave you gobsmacked.
@@HappyHarryHardon stfu
@@HappyHarryHardon they have limited turning radius
Leslley Scotte It probably doesn’t swallow that much petrol for that little throttle, so don’t worry bout fuel.
There is nothing like it live, the NHRA. I've seen rockets shot from cape canaveral and if i want to blow someones mind i'd take them to a NHRA event first. When you stand on the line and they take off, the ground shakes so hard your vision goes blurry, the air pressure increases so quickly you can feel your body press in, the little hairs on your body stand up... and nothing beats the smell of nitro in the evening :D
I live 24 miles away from Atlanta Dragway. I can hear the NHRA, top fuel and funny cars make their passes. I've seen them up close, I've watched them do their thing in the pits, and it is nothing less than a scientifical marvel as to how they get from point A, to B, in the way they do.
Can we just apreciate that the engine didnt blow up. Normaly they only do like one race and the engine is toast. But they don't floar it so the engine wont break
Going to my first drag race next weekend. Can't wait.
How was it?
@@Thellbro It was great! So much power, speed, and sound. Unfortunately the finals got rained out. Buy I'll definitely be back.
Can't breathe, eyes watering, nerve shattering power
Awesome display!!!!!
1:40 See the Photographer's hat flying? That's the exhaust. Yeah. It's nuts.
All i see here is 'Murica.
:)
The launch of these things is unreal they shake the ground
They went through a set of pistons, rods, valvetrain, and a blower belt for your enjoyment. Respect! lol
... if you do go to the Santa Pod raceway, never mind the speeds, just feel the massive shock waves hitting your diaphragm... insane!
I like how the announcer talked about the carburetor that the car doesn't have...
To be fair, the commentators didnt have a clue what they were on about, bless them !
They'd be better off on gardeners question time 😅
Hopefully we'll see a 'hold my beer' moment in the coming years when we get to see a couple of top fuel European Pulling Tractors. The things farmers do on a day off.
there are unlimited tractor pullers with 10000 horsepower or even more!
I’ve been to nationals in the states, in Minnesota, it is a truly crazy experience, you feel your body pulsating when they pass by you, it’s a weird and awesome feeling
I'll never forget the first time I heard a Top Fuel Funny Car. It was in a valley in upstate NY - Lebanon Valley to be exact. It was like no engine I had ever heard, and when the throttle was lifted the sounds echoed through the valley. As a 15 year old it gave me the chills!
They are in the 10,000 range now
11,000 hp apparently!
'Stang - controlling the crowd since 1964.
If You know what i mean :)
@Jarek Nowak - My favorite racing Mustang was Tasca Ford's "Mystery 8 Mustang" with Billy Lawton at the wheel, at the long gone Connecticut Dragway. I all but lived there on Sundays when a teenager. Billy showed up with this car which had either a Boss 429 or possibly a Cammer 427. He offered $1,000 to anyone who could beat him in a heads up match race, handicapped or not. He still had the $1,000 at the end of the day!
I used to go to Santa Pod . Barry Sheavells ran a 300mph quarter back in 2002
I will agree, you have to witness that in person, it is incredible!!!!!
Love the Brits we see this all the time in American drag Racing!
We do have drag racing in the UK too.
So do we .
Santa pod is one of the world's quickest tracks
@@peterherrington3300 The worlds fastest track is Atco Raceway in New Jersey
british commentary: 310 mph! americans: ...only?
over a 1/4 mile that is impressive
@@2011metalmaniac It's over 'only' a 1000 feet for top fuel cars since about ten years ago.
Yeah 20 years ago.
More power than HALF of an F1 grid...that's biblical. Seeing these at full chat is must-see for every car lover
"This was only 1% of my strength!"
Did the commentator say a couple thousand? Try 10
Well maybe for this run, I don’t think they went full macaroni on such a narrow road.
@@Thellbro so a 1000hp car isn't a 1000 until it's turned all the way up and full throttle, your comment makes no sense
When two top fuel cars accelerate down the track you can feel physical pain in your ears.
That's what earplugs are for
Having worked for a race wheel company, and watched numerous races from the staging box.. nothing like having a fresh polo shirt covered in black rubber dots, your eyes and lungs seared from the nitro... and seeing/feeling.. the whole scene shake from the decibal thunder! Better have good ear protection and breathe at the wrong moment.. ahhh, good times!
From the stands.. this is something you have to experience!
You feel a top fueler more than hear it. Amazing!
14 U.S. gallons of fuel in 4.3 secs. 337.66 mph...N.H.R.A. {that's 542 kph}
Funny how Europeans ridicule NHRA and drag racing as "easy straight line" racing but the fact is funny cars need to be steered at 300mph and have 10,000hp.
Their engines are basically hydrolocked for every combustion cycle. Drag Racing is insane. On top of that, the nitro methane burns your eyes and lungs. They shake the ground and they do 300mph+ in 1000 feet, not the 1/4 mile any more. 100mph per 100 meters and then some. Dom Lagana set the world record for fastest 1320 time, or 1/4 mile time. 338mph in 4.4 seconds.
Some people ridicule drag racing, not all. Drag racing has its fans in the UK and Europe, Santa Pod (UK) was (and possibly still is) the location of the fastest 1/4 miles for many many years.
We have a lot more in the way of circuit racing, it's just differing national tastes due to our countries being set up for different things - the US had a lot of straight roads and no stately homes with rich aristocrats setting up circuits. The UK was the other way round. Most of the drag strips in the UK and Europe are former WW2 air-bases as runways are ideal for conversion to drag strips.
Although Drag Racing is not my favorite style, just as you say something I love about this type of competition is the
Engineering, control when running, and some other extreme things that are awesome, Drag Racing deserves more respect around the world
Love that thing at idle and anyone who says its not thrilling is dead or near dead
@@2oldn2slow
exactly
I hate the 1000 foot races, give me the full quarter mile like everyone else
Words and video cannot describe what it's like watching 2 of these take off next to one another.
a 2012 run of 3.701 at 328.78 mph by Antron Brown at 10,100 horsepower when the car hit 5.1g some 2.5 seconds into the run.
More recently a Top Fuel dragster recorded a peak 11,051 horsepower during a recent test in California.
Two words: sensory overload
And that’s why we have flag on the moon
God bless America
This thing launched it up there
I just admire the way americans are so arrogant yet so capable at the same time. they've got the bark and the bite that is for sure
god you're so boring.
You are bewitched if you think they went to the moon ...
Used to live in Covina, CA. You could clearly hear them run at Irwindale dragstrip at least 10 miles away. Now I go out to Las Vegas to see them run. You literally feel the ground shake.
1:40 the cap of the photographer on the left
The commentator saying "a couple thousand horsepower" ya multiplied by 4 lol
If you use the words “utterly” and “implore,” odds are youre gonna stick out like a sore thumb at a drag race.
They probably hear it quite often at Santa Pod dragway...lol
We need more of these
I'm not even a dragster fan but seeing this at FOS makes me giddy
All 5 Of Your Senses Will Be Impacted !
Like others have posted on here. There is nothing like a Supercharged Injected Nitromethane Engine Equipped Car & Motorcycle going past you on a Dragstrip, or starting up in The Pits. The sheer vibrations you feel & see. The Burning Nitro in the air you smell & taste. Finally the Roar going by you is amazing. TV & a great Sound System only give 5% of what you'll experience.
Each of my Family & Friends I've brought to Englishtown Raceway Park in New Jersey over the years back when it was open would testify to how Incredible it was.
I've been to hundreds of NHRA events and it gets me every time.
What a time to be alive
These are what brought me to America! Nothing quite like it anywhere. And the little guy in his garage can build one of these, or at least close to it!