Coffee and donuts video for Saturday: NHRA mayhem, 2018. They are pushing the envelope of possible racing to the ragged limit, and often, blowing the engines up
Drag racing was much more exciting back in the 60's-70's...not a lot of mayhem, but just good clean racing. Push starts, 1/8 mile burnouts,cars and teams you could follow every week with National Dragster, and find out what happened all over the country. Now it's the same ten teams, nobody new, no new cars, just ballistic carnage that they call racing. I remember seeing Tommy Ivo's car at Fremont around 1970-71...and it was one of the most beautiful hand-crafted machines I've ever seen...to this day. You can't top that with a 3 second explosion and winning the race, to me. Give me a Stone-Woods & Cook gasser any day of the week.
there does not seem to be a rational reason to race at this level, it's wasting money and effort to see who can spend more money to win a race between such specialized machines that have no relevance to any other type of vehicle, and for no purpose than to possibly survive getting 1000 feet perfectly straight without blowing up. A long time ago, they raced real cars to see who could make a real car go fast, and improve real car parts so they wouldn't break under normal use, both nhra, f1, grand prix, and nascar. Now none of these races do anything for real cars, nor have any real car parts racing.
Drag racing was much more exciting back in the 60's-70's...not a lot of mayhem, but just good clean racing.
ReplyDeletePush starts, 1/8 mile burnouts,cars and teams you could follow every week with National Dragster, and find out what happened all over the country.
Now it's the same ten teams, nobody new, no new cars, just ballistic carnage that they call racing.
I remember seeing Tommy Ivo's car at Fremont around 1970-71...and it was one of the most beautiful hand-crafted machines I've ever seen...to this day. You can't top that with a 3 second explosion and winning the race, to me. Give me a Stone-Woods & Cook gasser any day of the week.
there does not seem to be a rational reason to race at this level, it's wasting money and effort to see who can spend more money to win a race between such specialized machines that have no relevance to any other type of vehicle, and for no purpose than to possibly survive getting 1000 feet perfectly straight without blowing up.
DeleteA long time ago, they raced real cars to see who could make a real car go fast, and improve real car parts so they wouldn't break under normal use, both nhra, f1, grand prix, and nascar. Now none of these races do anything for real cars, nor have any real car parts racing.