Another one in the books

[LKTraz]

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Yesterday I took my annual trek to Maple Grove Raceway for the big NHRA national event.

The temperature/humidity/track temp/ air quality was right on the edge between holy shit passes and fucking kaboom/up in smoke traction.

If it had been around 5 degrees warmer there would have been some new national record passes but........close but no cigar and instead we saw some big damned engine detonations along with the near misses on record times.

The odd thing was that there were several passes among the pro classes that produced big booms but the victim of the bang still won. What?

Brittany Force made a pass in round one that unleashed one of the most concussive engine explosions I've seen in a long time and still won the round! She dropped a valve and when it blew I felt it fairly strongly in the stands 400 feet away! No THAT'S no small engine explosion.

Another odd one with the winner being on fire was the Funnycar final.
Matt Hagan tossed a fireball at around 500 feet and kept on charging to the stripe.

Here's Hagan lighting it up:

http://vid17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/...dfbcca.mp4

I was sitting in my usual place right at the 1/8 th mile mark. The nitro classes now only run to 1000 feet as opposed to everyone else who still runs the full 1/4 mile but, shit still happens near or at the 660 line.

I have a few more vids and will post them later.

[LKTraz]

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Top Fuel final. This was a bit of a pedaling contest as both Tony Schumacher and Brittany Force were losing traction and trying to get the cars to hook back up.

http://vid17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/...8fba4c.mp4

[TenFour]

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post more!!!

[Medicine Woman]

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That was COOL

[LKTraz]

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Alright.......more:

Tommy Johnson and Jeff Arend.
This one is a bit anti climatic.




Here's the Pro Stock Motorcycle final. They are just short of 200 MPH at the stripe with ET's in the high 6's.

[LKTraz]

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This is some stock ESPN footage. From 7:03 to 8:03 you can see the remains of the blower from the engine explosion I talked about. They also show Brittany's explosion during qualifying. It was an expensive weekend in the John Force Racing camp!

http://youtu.be/LqYpIVFQGLI

[Medicine Woman]

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I did some funny car mods in high school with a local garage. I love what you're posting.

[LKTraz]

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I did some funny car mods in high school with a local garage. I love what you're posting.

So do you too love the smell of nitromethane and burning Goodyears in the morning?

I usually get what I consider to be the best seats in the house. Right at the 1/8 th mile mark and the front row.
That's where most of the good stuff happens!

[TenFour]

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its also where youre most likely to be a innocent bystander statistic...

[LKTraz]

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That's NASCAR on the back stretch.

It's rare, very rare that parts and pieces clear the track retainers much less make it to the stands at NHRA events.
When it does happen it occurs down track. Usually past the finish line in the shutdown area where there are no spectators.