TOP FUEL DRAGSTER CRACKING THE THROTTLE--VERY CLOSE

[@arjay1140]

I will never in my life get tired or not want to stand next to the nitro cars when they warm up. I was lucky to live in the US for a number of years and visited regularly prior to that and regularly spent the 4 days at Bristol, Vegas, Charlotte, Indy to name a few. Nitro alley is such a fun place to just walk up and down, talk to the drivers and crew, watch the teams strip these beasts down and rebuild in less than an hour and meet all the crazy nitro heads that breath the fumes. I love it when the crew heads back to hold the wing and the engine goes rich, you know it's go time 🙂

[@donkeyteeth5192]

You just cannot prepare someone for there 1st time in person...my wife was speechless for about an hour! Something I thought was impossible....

[@Muddicker]

what sort of HP are these putting out now?

[@Muddicker]

I'm 56 yo male that has never seen these machines. I think I need to come to USA and see them but not sure what time of year.

[@naskuna2671]

@@Muddicker In 2018 for top fuel class it's often about 11000Hp

[@rebel3353]

my gf just ran from them when they fired up lmao

[@lokitazz7687]

Neil Petersen I’m from Canada, always go to Las Vegas races. One race is in the spring the other is the fall. Right at Halloween, make for a great time in Vegas

[@tonykeisling2830]

Cracking a top fuel throttle is one of the things everyone has to experience in person

[@peterlee6745]

To True. We Get 2 See This in UK Santa Pod Raceway its Just Awesome And The Ground Shakes

[@scottspencer8358]

Agreed you can't get the full effect without being right there and feeling the pounding you feel in your chest everytime a cyl. fires !The sound...smell..and Shockwave from 8000+ HP is something you have to experience in person.. Then after watching a start up in the pits go stand by the starting line and feel it when two top fuel cars stab the throttle and launch...it is something you will never ever forget.

[@tobiaspaasonen4360]

100% Agree with you

[@cj27125]

So true nothing in the world like it💯💪🏾

[@Whoflungpouu]

Definitely

[@daddysdust]

I was a Photographer for a Corp that sponsored Race teams in almost every category. I was able to experience some fantastic machinery very close up.One Sunday afternoon at Englishtown NJ we had a Top Fuel team competing. Being in that tent when they warm it up and being down trackside when they run created forces and sounds overwhelm your senses. Almost beyond description. I believe if someones head was over those headers when he cracked it, that the head would get blown through the roof of the tent! No exaggeration.

[@michaelstepp956]

Being able to stand between 2 dragsters, when they warm up at the same time, is unbelievable. Feeling the power just pounds across your chest. I will never forget that.

[@TheNoisePolluter]

2:50 Did anyone notice how the exhaust wind made the water drain off the canopy?

[@DavidKrautscheid]

Its quite poerfull but nothing even spaceshotle rockes can beat a blowdown from a compressor station-

[@MauHobby005]

Yeah those can generate 500kg of downforce just on the exhaust

[@bluewater82]

@@DavidKrautscheid that’s a bit of an exaggeration. Rockets can hit nearly 200db, aside from huge bombs there isn’t really anything else that can compete with a rocket launch. They are so loud that sound suppression systems dump hundreds of thousands of gallons of water over the launch pad and deflectors to absorb some of the sound energy to protect the launch vehicles, launch pads, and crew from being destroyed or killed. Compressor stations are loud but not as loud as a full-sized rocket.

[@DavidKrautscheid]

@@bluewater82 Compressor blow downs can compete if you consider when gas under 800 psi of pressure is released from a 36 incv tube it is very very loud. search missesippi blowdown

[@100mpgus]

when I win the lottery, I am going to start a top fuel team just so I can crack the throttle for the fans before EVERY race.

[@87Wayne]

These machines are "AWE" inspiring. Was once able to watch up close while one did a test burnout, it was enough to dissolve you molecular structure!

[@howlinhog]

When I was a teenager I worked at US131 Dragway in Martin Mi. I got to meet Shirley Muldowney, Don Prudhomme Don Garlits and a few others. Watched the Chi Town Hustler funny car break 5 seconds. 1979, 1980? not sure. But it was awesome. I hope I'm right about the five seconds, it may have been more but whatever it was there was a lot of excitement.

[@jasongianni4600]

That will never get old!!!

[@ronwilliams1094]

I think every race fan should experience a top fuel dragster or funny car engine test in the pits. The watery eyes from the nitromethane, the sound and smell of an 11,000 HP beast of an engine when they crack the throttle... WOW!!!!! *Ain't NOTHING LIKE IT!!!*

[@clarissafarmer3547]

It’s a shame they don’t do this anymore, I remember standing this close when they used to do it when I was 9, it changed my life

[@harrisonfowler4461]

Don’t do what?

[@IIlIIlIIlII]

@@harrisonfowler4461 throttle wacks

[@johntomasik1555]

Uh, they most certainly still do this. I go to the Mile High Nationals every year, and every year I see several teams run their cars in the pits to check things out, even engaging the clutch.

[@clarissafarmer3547]

@@johntomasik1555 They have always started them up to check everything after the rebuild, and engaged the clutch to get some heat into the diff, but most don’t hit the throttle anymore due to slightly more engine wear

[@johntomasik1555]

@@clarissafarmer3547 Was just at the nationals last year (again, as I go every year). I was in the pits, and there were a couple teams who repeatedly throttled the engine while the car was on its stand, showering us with unburned nitro (burns like hell). Some teams most certainly do this. Not all.

[@manoftruth6618]

I’m going to Baytown i two weeks to see em for the first time! I’ve built Powerglides for bracket cars at our local track for years, but I’m told these beasts are a totally different experience. I’m stoked

[@cdiedrick]

Wish they still burped the throttle to set the clutch. Made the pits much more interesting. Scott Palmer gets it

[@mzaite]

There's a point where ear plugs stop working, and the sound conducted through your skull is powerful enough to damage hearing. This is that point.

[@johntomasik1555]

The sound, feeling, and smell of nitro races is second to none. Well, that unburned cloud when they run them in the pits is a bit over the top....that stuff burns your eyes and nose big time.

[@NickVanDeVenDJ]

My eyes are burning from the nitro through the vid. Hahaha

[@clydeblair9622]

I've seen this so many times up close but DAMN!

[@onestepbeyond7240]

Sounded like the 7th Fetzer valve is bad. And check the piston return springs too.

[@rosiemary0823]

Every year we go and see the top fuel’s my dad always jokes about how they should make a Yankee candle scent out of the fumes that come out of the cars 😂😂

[@tylerlevine8586]

Belive it or not they actually do😆😆

[@carodine99]

He’s definitely not wrong lol. They should.

[@garybrader8447]

@@tylerlevine8586 how do I get some?

[@mrobviuos74]

I've always said that the best men's aftershave would be top fuel exhaust, gun powder and charcoal.😉😆

[@Maxumized]

Real men of Genius…Mr. Top Fuel Dragster Starter man!

[@NeilLB7]

It's like the Devil himself contained inside a V8 engine, trying to get out.

[@nitrojunkie9027]

All hail nitromethane, God of hellfire!!!

[@NinjaZXRR]

You people still exist

[@thomasdebiase1460]

It's so awesome standing next to these 10,000+hp Beasts. Total body rush to say the least.

[@notsocleverley]

You was a poet! And didn’t even know it!

[@LexyThomas134]

@@notsocleverley ...bust a rhyme anytime

[@lnr12241]

The raw power is just awesome

[@neilreid9005]

There is nothing in motorsports like a top fuel car stabbing the throttle after a build check. Yow.

[@Dudleymiddleton]

When Jesus builds your hot rod!

[@jeffcourtney8101]

Nothing compares to what its like to stand where these people are standing during this. What video cannot do is take your breath away, make your eyes water like Niagra falls.

[@lomasck]

Such a Awesome Sound.

[@DrMK-sy3wq]

I watch these videos obsessively as if I haven't been to a hundred races and stood in that spot 100 times! Is something wrong with me?! lol

[@tires2burn]

The last time I was close up was at SIR back in the 70"s. It was unforgettable.

[@mkay1957]

Nothing like a throttle whack to clear the sinuses!

[@jaimichaeldee1373]

I miss how the nitromethane burns my eyes and love it!!!

[@brucemoyers1006]

It's a damned shame the throttle whack has all but gone. You simply can't get that effect anywhere else.

[@strikeeagle345]

Bruce Moyers they don't do this anymore?

[@Joop.23-2-63]

Strike Eagle's Perch Nope. For several years already no throttle whack. It was something to do with the clutch ( too much for me to explain, because I'm Dutch). Due to better techniques no throttle whack anymore. I say, fuck progress............

[@kdwaynec]

A few of the old timers still do it, just for show

[@Cfbrolley1320]

@@strikeeagle345 not anymore, they just fire it up and run it on idle. From what I'm told, the throttle hits add heat and wear to the clutch which adds another variable into the mix for the tune up. So no throttle hits anymore.

[@michaelfritsche4023]

Scott Palmer Racing still Whacks it.

[@billionear]

Mankind's 3 greatest achievements building the Pyramid's, walking on the moon and the 4 second quarter mile.

[@Sublime-ik3lx]

Never forget the day my mom took my 8 year old self right behind one of these fucking things...was all cool until the wind shifted..I wasn’t breathing fire yet but was coughing..the fire came at the blip..and everyone turned and ran lol...I couldn’t breath, see, was screaming and crying...I felt like coughing up a lung...best day ever!!

[@claudiocarbone2225]

Just love those monsters from Italy! Sadly we can't live this experience here but only "normal" dragsters

[@chickenchauffeur3791]

makes your eyes water and burn! a smell to remember! you can feel the engine rattle your body all the way to your heart! ears begging to be covered, but we're stubborn

[@jasonraine6593]

Nothing in the world sounds like that. Surprised you could stand there that long without the nitro fumes burning your eyes

[@pkr123ful]

I remember getting a picture taken with Ashley Force while they did this next door with Robert Hights car. Wacking the throttle, nitro flying everywhere neither of us could keep our eyes open for the camera. We both came out looking like Cheech and Chong lol

[@sweeptheleg.]

Using headphones? Lower the volume! Although by the time you see this you would have already watched the video. 🤣

[@nathanrobbs4954]

This dragster sounds like it was set on KILL!!!! Sounds SO BEAUTIFUL! I think this is Brandon Bernstein‘s car CoPart.

[@davestinson5691]

Nothing like hearing/feeling those in person. An on side note. I can't believe there not wearing safety glasses

[@kstars101]

Thank you. That's the first thing I noticed.

[@tonyt8807]

I was in the parking lot drinking a beer, you could hear them burp the nitro car while the top alcohol were going down the track.

[@headkickko609]

Still dont get it why the two blokes hold the car down at the back. If there was something to go wrong there, they would have been catapulted to Timbuktu.

[@savagedabs8536]

Because something would go wrong if they didnt. It would more than likely rip itself off the jackstands and end up in someone's camper a mile away.

[@jerroldkazynski5480]

That's what they call stage management. For looks only. Support staff.

[@Tinas2Labs]

@@jerroldkazynski5480 stops the car jumping off the jackstands

[@porkercrackler]

i love how that little man holds the back, brother, you are not a dyno harness!

[@savagedabs8536]

It even scared the water off the awning.

[@maam7874]

luv this pssd off growl of that badd az engine. give me chills

[@orsoncart9441]

When they blip them the cars sound crap now. What's happened to them?

[@fogstreet108]

That's firing on all eight Baby !

[@dennyhostasa2928]

Reminds me of my AC-DC concert when I was dumb enough to stand right by the speakers. Couldn´t hear for a few days afterwards.

[@richardmiller4489]

The best in each class, AC/DC in music and Top FUEL in motorsports

[@joe6367]

I went to an AC/DC concert in atlanta in the 90's I was no where near the stage and my ears rang for 2 or 3 days

[@theanomalous1401]

We Salute You!!

[@stevefaltis8989]

How can it go any rurgher? 2”’s.

[@markleeks1116]

Haven't heard this live for a while now so lve "forgotten" how loud this is. Turn you're TV up to 11 and you're getting there! Remember being at Santa Pod years ago and bloke in from had a drink in plastic cup. And he was facing the wrong way. Yep you guessed right, he wasn't prepared and drink went all other him, so funny

[@robertwhite9028]

I wondered after back surg. would come back but the love of it gets us all but pain can stop it all. But way rad to see that clear unload and fire wow I'm shaken it off it's so kool but so hot. See you in the wally circle.

[@stuwest3653]

I think I hear a valve tick in the number 5 hole.

[@wmwardwell]

Great way to get the water off the roof of the hauler.

[@michaelcowan6254]

There's nothing like a hit of nitro to start the day.

[@charlessawallich1870]

2 of these monsters from what Ive read can create a 2.6 or more on Richter scale.

[@stevehiatt848]

Most unusual, straight onto nitro, high revs, in gear, no blips....

[@rachelgrimes6737]

Love it!!

[@warrenlanglois168]

I have headphones on and I can already tell that this is obsurdly loud in person. 🏁

[@jessemarchese7245]

I wanna see how long these will last on just gasoline

[@peterherrington3300]

You think your "fast car" is responsive ? Top fuel - hold my beer

[@johnevans388]

The beast lives!!!

[@leerobertsiv447]

Please enlighten me. What is "cracking the throttle"? I'm lost and new here, and I have no idea what's happening lol.

[@bowtihi6830]

Cracking the throttle = giving it gas/stepping on the accelerator pedal.

[@bowtihi6830]

If you know of a drag strip that races top fuel cars in your area, you should go at least once in your lifetime.

[@bipradeeproy12a16]

Can these engines pull locomotives??its got 10k hp

[@charlesdavis5701]

They does that to set the clutches to get ready to run. But the sad part about it they don't do it any more because with the New clutch setup. I no I love to hear that power.

[@nhragold1922]

Should try standing on the starting line! About knocks you over

[@dasworkshop4967]

The blips are great pit fun, but nothing like when they crack the throttle wide open under load at the starting line. I've tried my best to explain it to non-racers over the years, only in person can it be understood.

[@michaelfritsche4023]

I Crewed with Bruce Littion and JR Todd Top Fuel. On the Line at the Hit will change your life. And Hearing...

[@robertdavis6708]

One could have a million dollars and not experience as much fun as a cackle chirp. First time I saw one I was 10 ft. behind it. Finished picking my ass up around 20 ft. later.

[@DavidPerticarari]

The video from the guy five feet to the left from you took me here. 😁

[@larrybennett5408]

Nothin Like The Smell Of Methane in The Mornin!👍 👍!

[@vlfreak]

so my wife says haha :D nitro-methane, now thats a different story ;)

[@connylaurine745]

Can I have a gasmask with a tube to the exhausts so I can directly inhale the burned nitro.

[@josephdrbohlav5705]

So the crankshaft must be rotating counterclockwise looking from the back of the car

[@racer774]

Joseph Drbohlav - Absolutely not.

[@DaleRunningbear]

😂like his brain 🧠

[@josephdrbohlav5705]

@@racer774 Let me guess, you failed Physics 101?

[@kimnielsenthewordyvikingett159]

Zume forward to time 2:50 for first throttle wak!

[@joepilbeam4722]

The only thing better than that is having seats on the starting line and two of them leave on green , the planet shakes!

[@davewalker3561]

Ha! At 2:50 the blip blows water off the awning. 😃

[@thomephipps2687]

There's nothing better than feeling the sound smelling that nitro in the pounding through your chest of the engine idling sometimes it's better than sex

[@bobmillerick300]

It has a way of rearranging your DNA somehow. very few things are like. A Tomcat at full afterburner is about the only thing i can think of that out does it. I flew jets off of carriers for 20 years.......so been there done that

[@racer774]

Bob Millerick - I agree. Also, thank you for your service, sir.

[@GORT70]

Did anyone else see that it actually shook the canopy and water fell off?

[@kstars101]

No safety glasses required?

[@osos231]

That blip of throttle prob produced 2000 ft lbsof torque and I'm prob underestimating😮

[@Tinas2Labs]

the schumacher team had a torque meter on the car in testing, it peaked at 11,000 ft/pounds

[@osos231]

@@Tinas2Labs Wow. Just that blip produced thst much.

[@willross4125]

Oy,just of learning that's the gears

[@bobcathey8903]

I am sure the thrill was great! I would have loved to be standing near by but I see no eye protection from people close to the dragster. Safety has come a long way but there is always room for improvement

[@dereklane5231]

Goosebumps Yeeahhh!!!

[@jgmopar]

100% awesome

[@racrx7]

Best one yet!!🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@MATTNMEMPHIS]

BRAAAAAP! Awesome!

[@darcyperron3929]

Why would you stand right behind the rear tire of one of those monsters? Wow.....

[@josephdrbohlav5705]

Trying to minimize rotation of the vehicle clockwise when the throttle is punched.

[@Serpent32776]

Me 1 hour after I eat my gram’s meatloaf...

[@billclark5943]

Whacking the throttle would be a more accurate term than cracking the throttle

[@donmonette1809]

If he leans over just a little further that back wheel would launch his ass into outer space! Just on idle do you see how fast those fucking back tires turn?!?!

[@StationRussification]

That is how they used to seat the clutch

[@chamisi]

I remember my friends first time, I even told him to plug his ears........ he didn't LOL

[@robdonnelly6537]

Must have rained recently. just after the whack, poor crew guy on the right gets wet down the back!

[@jessiehughes9432]

Double throttle wack!! Even better!! Lots of fire second time!! 👍👍👍🥇🥇

[@wozza980]

Gota love 10000 horses really shitted off and angry

[@chillax498]

i need 1

[@R.Knapschafer]

I love the smell of nitro in the morning. Smells like victory.

[@erinmckeand6506]

My eyes sting from watching this

[@kennethleigh6384]

I miss this yes.

[@svinenosser]

Don't worry for them. They are already deaf . Lol

[@coupe-jk7bh]

Don't see the Orange ear plugs j.a.

[@diegomr6969]

RIP THIS GUYS....