Anybody here into drag racing?

Todd@RUPES

Todd@RUPES

Just a regular guy
I drove up to Gainesville on Saturday with my son and met my dad at the Gator-Nationals.

I haven't been to an NHRA drag race in a long time (my dad and I used to go to the Summer Nationals in Indy a lot when I was a kid growing up in Chicago). There is really nothing like the feeling of 8000 horsepower ripping from the starting line, causing such intense sound waves that your body vibrates with a particular frequency.

While I haven't followed drag racing too much in a long time, it is still a thrill and it was really fun to spend time with my father and my son (now three generations of us crazy people).

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Any drag racing fans on here?
 
Haven't been in ages but still love it. My favorite is drag boats though. Unfortunately it's a days drive to go see them now. Here's one of my favorites. Only a couple of minutes long but do have the sound up! This is at Marble Falls TX....DO go full screen.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0sv01Z16zU&feature=relmfu"]260mph Drag-boat "The Spirit of Texas" Top Fuel Hydro IHBA - YouTube[/ame]
 
I grew up watching it on TV with my dad, and finally talked him into taking me to the 8th mile track here. Ill never forget it. Of course after i was old enough to drive, my friends and I were there every weekend. Ive made it to Gateway a couple times to see the big guys race, and while thats unreal, I still get a kick out of the open track nights at the local strip. There are some amazing grudge matches that happened at those events.
 
Very cool. I actually watched some of it on ESPN last night. I haven't followed in years. I just needed to watch some racing!
 
Todd, I used to go to the NHRA drag races almost every year with my old man. Been a long time since I've been to one though...think the last time was back in 2002. :(

You simply can't explain or put into words the feeling to someone when those top fuel dragsters take off! It's simply something you must experience for yourself. LOL, I remember the first time I went down in the pits with my dad and they started up an alcohol funny car...the crowd disperses REALLY quickly once the fumes hit you! :D

Rasky
 
Yes. Love the drag races. Grew up watching them. It's been 30 years or more sense I've been to Atco raceway. Last race I saw there was the Big Rigs. From what I remember I had fun.
 
i love the smell of an alcohol/nitromethane fueled car or truck. never been to a true drag race. been in a few illegal drag races however! been to truck pulls thats about it....im more of a road race guy but dont follow it just watch it time to time...
 
Love drag racing, I was lucky enough to have a 1/4 track about 20min from the house. Even raced my AMX there a few times for fun.
 
Back in the mid to late 70's I used to live for drag racing.... I spent many a Sunday at New England Dragway in Epping New Hampshire...

New England Dragway - Epping, NH

I used to race there and just thinking about it brings back some very fond memories. Sometime I need to go back and just watch....:yay

I have a picture or two of my Plymouth Cuda that I'll dig up and scan in....:bigups

Nothing like the smell of Nitro Methane in the morning.....smells like victory!! :bigups
 
I used to love going down to Moroso every Friday when I was younger just to watch or occasionally race my Mach 1. It's a great environment and I agree the smell of the burnt rubber and racing fuel was intoxicating LOL
 
LOL . I grew up on it. My Dad used to run his cars at Englishtown. He used to have all six of us and My mom in the stands cheering him and his guy's on. Nothing like it. I follow it all the time.
 
Great thread there Todd, at the Gatornationals Morgan Lucas won the Top Fuel on Monday. All I have to say to anyone is go to one event and your hook. Big Daddy was my farvorite driver when I was growing up till this day, was lucky to have met a few times over the years.
 
RTexasF said:
I thought you might like it. Just as sitting in the stands you can "feel" the boats
as they pass by when you are sitting on the bank.
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That seems like an insanely dangerous sport! I would assume it is crazier/scarier/more can go wrong then top fuel cars?
 
have always been around cars. and love the explosive power drag racing has. in my younger days my weekends were car show at 7p.m.(somewhere and anywhere near me) during the show is when we all figured who was going to run that night and what car was being taken to Doty road. got there about midnight and stayed til about 6a.m. got up the next day for a day time show then back to Doty rd.
 
steve1972 said:
have always been around cars. and love the explosive power drag racing has. in my younger days my weekends were car show at 7p.m.(somewhere and anywhere near me) during the show is when we all figured who was going to run that night and what car was being taken to Doty road. got there about midnight and stayed til about 6a.m. got up the next day for a day time show then back to Doty rd.
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You are from Chicago? We used to watch cars race on Doty back in the day. I remember once, when I was a youth, thinking I was hot stuff in my brother's Trans Am. I raced a 5.0 that pulled its front wheels off the ground and burned me by like 15 car lengths, by second gear.
 
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