Time to warmup a Pro Stock Car with Matt Hartford

Matt Hartford and the Total Seal team have put Joe Castello to work all season long. Now it’s time to warmup the car!
While we are fully aware that the audio is not great, the experience was too cool not to still share with you.
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[@Jvcomet]

Nothing like a pro stock Engine sound 👍👍

[@thediscount603]

Joe’s shock and excitement perfectly embody how cool pro stock truly is! Thanks for championing these behind the scenes clips!

[@paulstuartwilson485]

The lady filming this evolution is giggling her behind off the whole time!! Awesome video!!

[@chadalac1977]

Thanks for taking the time to do this Matt great

[@321-Gone]

You guys are doing stuff that should have been decades ago. Demystify prostock. Great work.

[@doughopkinsjr]

NHRA is doing great sharing these experiences with pro stock all the way to k/sa. Thanks Joe and crew!

[@SC457A]

It has been tons of fun watching these videos. I have been a fan of the class for years.

[@jackmaddock3568]

Thank you Matt! This is exactly what has been missing in NHRA pro stock for God knows how long. Even though fans understand and respect pro stocks Uber secretive nature, this up close perspective which hasn't effected the classes competitiveness by the way is just what the class needs to stay viable. Other pro stock racers should do the same.

[@raykelly1443]

Great video, thanks Matt...way to go Joe

[@colbyjarrett925]

Kotos to you all. I was excited for the host, and you could feel the energy and terror in the host's heart as he was asking about the starting procedure. Matt if you could allow spectators to do the same, you'd be ushering in a new army of competitors and grow the sport. I think that the NHRA has forgotten that this excitement is the driving force behind drag racing. I remember the days when a meet or a national event had so many competitors that qualifying for the professional categories lasted many hours. Keep up the awesome work, you have won a new supporter of your team.

[@greenova100]

awesome throttle response

[@elonconsultingllc725]

Awesome video, I hope you guys will do more like this next season!

[@JaredR1996]

I wish I was in that seat

[@Darnic-Fab]

Matt, Thanks for taking the time to do these videos, very cool

[@toddclark332]

Thanks guys for taking the time to share this with us really really cool love the Pro Stock

[@bigham1jb]

Hat's off to Matt for giving us a great inside look at the pro stocks. We need more of this type of insight. The more the fans understand the better they will be at spreading the love for the sport! And Joe wasn't too bad either, after the deer in the headlights look when Matt told him he was going to warm it up!

[@rogerw3818]

Fighting you every step of the way. That's how you know you are in a throughbred.

[@sammymalone4893]

This is an awesome video. I had no idea how complicated those things are.

[@RacersUnited]

Who would dislike this? Very informative!

[@williealston9120]

The dislikes are from the idiot asking the same questions too many times.

[@brucemarra3922]

Absolutely Great Stuff Total Seal World Champions but Joe needs to be there Too Please keep it coming!! NHRA to the Front

[@philc8072]

Keep these videos coming

[@TCDallas]

Love these videos!!

[@alonsofilho1954]

Always making nice vídeos for us to get to know about this expirence. Thanks

[@grantk.3860]

Awsome video what a lucky guy!!!

[@frank-xp6pj]

AWESOME, Prostock is still my favorite class even though NHRA screwed up some things like removing the hoodscoops & a rev limit of 10,500 rpm's.

[@badass6.0powerstroke10]

I like the Carburetor Days myself. Hoodscoop would kinda be useless with the Fuel Injection, it gets much cleaner flow of air coming from down low in front nose.

[@FIVE-0-APOCALYPTO]

its pretty much always been 10,000 rpm at 500 c.i. Pro stock is basically aerospace. Naturally aspirated and get

[@frank-xp6pj]

@@FIVE-0-APOCALYPTO no it wasn’t a rpm limit on them before & some speculate that Team Summit was spinning there motors @ 12k.

[@badass6.0powerstroke10]

@@frank-xp6pj i heard the same, when they put the 10,000 rpm limit on them, the KB Cars were the first to talk about the New rpm limit, so they probably were spinning them to 12,000 rpm.

[@frank-xp6pj]

@@badass6.0powerstroke10 exactly, I believe it was all over the place...I think some teams were at 10,500 rpm’s , some 11,000 rpm’s , some a bit more & then the teams with super big budgets probably was spinning 12,000rpm’s or a little more.....I don’t like the fact they put a limit on it.

[@henrytyson3219]

You know watching this video I just thought about it' this would really bring alot more exposure to the sport if they were to invite school kids to all of the races and give them an experience like This.

[@ronchang9791]

That's true. As a kid, I lived only 7 miles from Pomona, heard the engines echoing throughout the valley, yet I never knew how awesome it. Being next to the cars with the ground shaking and the smell of rubber + nitro is SO much more different than seeing it on a short TV advertisement.

[@dmeemd7787]

That's effing awesome! When you've been a fan of something for that long and get to do something like this ... yeah that's just an awesome moment!! This is what NHRA is about! Well one of many :-) Joe you did great!! I've watched a lot of people warm up cars and totally drop the ball.

[@richb4099]

Funny video.....You didn't even get a hair out of place Joe ! LOL

[@sherrigaskin5656]

You're patience with that idiot was epic.

[@WorkingwithBobby]

Wow man! I wish I was in Joe's shoes so bad right now. I always wondered what it would be like to just sit in a race car like that while its idling. You gotta be a sick or dying kid to get wishes granted like that these days. No offense to the kids or parents of them.

[@roncoburn7771]

dam that thing sounds good

[@chrisrigoni]

awesome

[@MichaelJohnson-kp1xq]

Good video do more videos like that I subscribed to your story send me some more of your stories

[@billyokley6723]

Should have been at Roy Hill's !!!! You need a manual on uddin, uddin, whoopow!

[@TheCOZ]

Nice choice of car number, Matt! 😈

[@dmeemd7787]

🤘🏻

[@rdecoster1]

This is some COOL stuff!!!

[@sherrigaskin5656]

Let him drive it. Full pull.

[@Smittyschannel]

Sure doesn't sound like this guy has been around drag cars since he was a kid...... geez

[@jasondavis5364]

Shoulda put him in a 5speed Lenco lever car!

[@KennyVeach1992]

Next trainee

[@MichiganQuadTrailsTales]

VERY COOL!

[@jamesdwyer6701]

That was the best ever

[@areliablesource4558]

The guy in the car is annoying as hell lol

[@rickykey1175]

Man that old boy is a goofball I am sorry from Bedford va

[@ekdog91]

Whose nitro car was warming up in the background?

[@anthonymontey7540]

Getting really Tallis is his first day in a vehicle

[@georgeniksich1152]

If there isn't enough TV time it's not a good advertising investment . That goes for any type of racing.

[@kerschnerracing]

This audio sounds like it was recorded on a potato

[@ModernDayTemplar606]

👍

[@TheThemattyo1]

That sounds better than my wife "...I just love my wife more.

[@TheThomas129]

He needs to listen more talk less.

[@HighlanderNorth1]

Yeah, his banter is annoying.

[@helpmenow7]

Nervous alittle

[@dougauzene8389]

MAGA: Make Anderson Go Away, Matt! ;-)

[@dennismoore9147]

my favorite was pro stock cars and pro stock trucks nhra went brain dead and took away trucks.i quit watch n for years

[@ekdog91]

He should do this with Erica as well

[@sherrigaskin5656]

I almost had to turn it off cause his schtick of being an idiot was pissing me off.

[@eandlknutson]

Get rid of Joe Castello

[@davidbutler6147]

Annoying!!