Thanks to your Lap of The Blogs, Friday’s are now my favourite day.
To really appreciate the power of drag racing cars you’ve gotta go to a race. I recommend going at night, bring ear plugs.

Dragsters will shake your soul, here’s why:

* The nitromethane-powered engines of NHRA Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars produce approximately 7,000 horsepower, about 37 times that of the average street car? The 500-inch Hemi makes more horsepower than the first 8 rows at Daytona.

* Under full throttle, the engine consumes 1 1/2 gallons of
nitro per second, the same rate of fuel consumption as a fully loaded Boing 747 but with 4 times the energy volume. Each 1/4 mile run only lasts 4-6 seconde, this is equivalent to between 16 and 20 gallons per mile? That’s right not MPG but GPM. Nitromethane isn’t cheap either $20 per gallon or $5.28 so quit your crying about paying $1.35 L.

* From a standing start, Top Fuel dragsters accelerate faster than a jumbo jet, a fighter jet, and a Formula One race car.

* To exceed 300mph in 4.5 seconds dragsters must accelerate at an average of over 4G’s. But in reaching 250 mph well before 1/2 track, launch acceleration is closer to 8G’s.

* Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have read this sentence.

Cheers,

Tim