American Couple Reacts to the Fastest Accelerating Vehicles on the Planet | NHRA Drag Racing

American Couple Reacts to the Fastest Accelerating Vehicles on the Planet | NHRA Drag Racing

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[ronpeer]

Going to a race is an experience like no other. The horsepower, the sound, the ground rumbles under your feet! Your whole body rattles. I highly recommend going to a race. It’s incredible.

[MrTech]

Brittany & Courtney's father is the legendary NHRA's racer, John Force. They grew up in racing watching their father racing. John Force is 16-time NHRA champion driver and 22-time champion car owner. Brittany stated I think stated she likes to drive Top Fuel because engines are in the back while engines in Funny Cars are in the front. She and other Top Fuelers have to give thanks to legendary NHRA Icon, "Big Daddy" Don Garlits. He and his people designed Top Fuel Dragster with its engine in the back. Because Don Garlits had a terrible accident with his dragster with the engine in front of him. Engine blew up during a run caused major injuries on Don Garlits' body.

[cam]

If you ever get the chance to go see these in person... you will have a great time....pits open to everyone...drivers signing autographs....and sitting in the stands while one of these monsters goes down the track is simply amazing to see...and the air vibrates and the bleachers too....absolutely nothing like it anywhere.

[vernhoke]

As someone who has been to dozens of NHRA races, there is no other type of experience to compare it to. Maybe getting shot out of a cannon, might come close.
Since the mid seventies the power has gone from 6, 000 to 7, 000 horsepower to 11, 000 horsepower.
You can feel the pressure in your chest as they pass by.

[robertcampopiano]

The Funny Cars are descended from the old Altered cars of the 1960s. The racers modified the wheelbases of the cars by moving the drivetrain and wheels forward to improve their performance. The fans liked seeing them and told the promoters they wanted to see those “funny cars”, since they looked “funny” with the modified wheelbase. They evolved into the cars they run now.

[johngreene]

NHRA stands for National Hot Rod Association 🔥 in all due respect 🙌 I don't care what you've seen, what you've done . . You have not lived until you witnessed, felt ( pounded into) the sheer unbelievable cannot be put into words or anything else, awesomeness of what top fuel is 🤘 nothing I mean nothing comes close !!! Stomponthatloudpedal 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[daviddelaet]

Nothing like top fuel. I grew up near Michigan International Speedway. 40 cars going by at 200 m.p.h. all bunched together is another sound that you never forget.

[skyboss]

The nitromethane these cars use as fuel costs about $45/ gal. It can make for an expensive weekend, then things explode!

[AliasMark]

“DRAG” Racing…. Why is it called Drag racing? Where did that name come from originally?
In the days of dirt streets even in the bigger cities the streets had ruts and were difficult to drive the new cars on. The streets had to be smoothed out by taking a heavy flat log pulled by horses down the street. “Dragging” the street was the term used for the process. It soon become common to call Main Street the “Main Drag” in any town. Soon cars were using the main drag because it was the best road for racing. That led to people saying they were “Drag Racing”…. The term stuck and is now used around the world to mean racing another car/vehicle side by side…. I Love Drag Racing.

[mfree]

Nitromethane is unique among fuels because it carries most of it's own oxygen. Gasoline actually makes more power for the same amount of fuel, but here's the catch... it carries no oxygen, it has to be supplied with enough air to burn completely. Nitromethane doesn't. So even though nitromethane is weaker and cooler burning than gas, it doesn't matter so much anymore when you can cram something like 16 times the amount of fuel in, and still have complete combustion. You can spray so much in a cylinder that there's no remaining air space, which tends to break things quite violently (and is usually avoided). That usually only happens when the ignition fails.

The engines run a little more nitromethane than can be completely burned because the extra fuel entering and leaving takes a lot of the heat away from the engine itself. That's important because these engines have no cooling system... at all. No water jackets in the block (they're solid billet aluminum) or head, no water pump, no radiator, none of that. The extra fuel is all it has to keep it from seizing in the short time it runs, but it's a system that works.

The *problem* with nitromethane is that since it carries it's own oxygen it will burn over a very large range of concentration (stochiometry) so you get situations where an intake valve will burn part way into a run and ignite the fuel charge in the intake under the blower. At that point it becomes pretty obvious why the engines are run in race trim with ballistic grade kevlar blankets and kevlar straps loosely connecting the larger parts.

It works. 12, 000 horsepower isn't an exaggeration. They make so much power that a transmission to handle it is pretty much impossible, so they're direct drive. They run a special multiplate steel clutch that slips *just* enough to drag the thing up to speed before it welds itself together during the run. "Gearing" is actually provided for by the tires expanding under centrifugal force.

[gregpeacock]

I used to go to NHRA events at the Texas Motorplex (at the time the only all-concrete track) in the late 80's thru mid 90's. At that time, Top Fuel dragsters and funny cars ran a full 1/4 mile instead of the shortened 1000 feet. To give you an idea of how fast these cars accelerate, if you stood even with the finish line, 1320 feet away, by the time you HEARD them hit the gas, they were almost at the finish line.

[dougreeder]

Hopefully you've been to an event by now. All I can tell you is TV and YT doesn't come anywhere near doing that racing justice, it's something you have to experience in person. The sound is deafening, the ground shakes, the air vibrates, that is about the best way I can describe it. It actually does register at around a 2.2 on a richter scale, that has been verified at one of the races that lies on a fault line in East Tn. There is a YT video "top fuel vs. coke bottle" and "the power of top fuel dragsters" if you're interested in seeing the effects.

[AliasMark]

National Hot Rod Association.... Nothing else like it.

[brandontaylor]

I'm not a car guy and don't really care much about racing but I'll tell you these cars are unbelievable to be near. There is a point where sound becomes a physical force that can move your body. That's how loud these cars are.

[zulumagoo]

Just so you know, AT the races, you get access to the Pit area to see these cars up closer and the crowds can stand around and watch the rebuild process. Clay Millican has the best channel to experience the life of a Top Fuel Nitro Champion. (One of very few drivers at his level, who share the full love of the sport on video for his fans.)

[shag]

They used to run a quarter mile (1320 ft) but they were getting too fast and if something bad happened such as chute failing they would blast through the sand and crash barrier. Some drivers were killed so they changed to 1000 feet.

[donsavignano]

Top fuel dragsters and funny cars put out 12, 000 horsepower travel down the drag strip in 3.7 seconds at 350 mph. They are the kings of the sport. John force is a 16X funny car champ and at the age of 74 he's still trucking

[silasmcgee]

To put the fuel tank size and fuel consumption rate into perspective the average 1990 Toyota Camry LE V6 has a 15.9 gallon tank and that's just a regular City goer kind of car

[davidchambers]

No other experience in the world is like seeing a race live

[ghengriff]

If you attend a top fuel event, bring ear protection. You’ll need it.
What a different kind of rush.