I only watch the last ten laps too...but you are spot on with your assumptions. Power curves are developed differently, the chevy motors have tended to be the most fuel efficient, while some others can have great restart power but not the reliability, some run better on long stretches but take a minute to get up to…

They are not entirely the same. Yes, they have the same CI and design, but it is up to the manufacturer to develop the block and the heads. Little things like cam placement, valve angles and placement, and other dirty bits make a huge difference.

The body essentially makes zero difference because they’re all designed,…

Danica has had 3 full years in a top shelf car from a team that has won 2 championships in the last 5 years. She has more crashes than Top 10s. She has never had a Top 5. At some point, you have to come to grips that she is a pay driver, and not a very good one at that.

Even the most notorious pay driver in NASCAR…

Spoken like someone who has never raced in any sort of organized series in their life. Every form of motorsport depends on post-race teardowns. Set a record in NHRA Comp, Super Stock, or Stock? Go to the barn, you’re getting torn down and a fuel check. Win a NASCAR race? You’re getting torn down. Win anywhere? You’re…

Overdrive is a gear with a ratio taller than 1:1. In other words, overdrive is a gear with 0.xx gear ratio. The transmission in my Ram has 2 overdrive gears, 4th and 5th. 4th gear is 0.75:1 and 5th is 0.67:1. This means it takes fewer rotations of the engine to turn the output shaft, lowering your cruising RPM and…

Ram air does add power though...but only at extra-legal speeds, on carburetors, and if the air flow is sealed between the scoop and carburetor. Couple guys in NHRA Pro Stock have proven it by accident, they lose about 3 mph if they forget to put the air pan on to seal the carburetor area to the scoop. Of course,…

Back in the early 00s when SRT4s and turbo DSMs were still big, I had a friend tell me that you couldn’t turbo a V8.

Yep. I bought an intake for a previous truck I had, but solely so the nitrous nozzle I put into it wasn’t being cut into the factory intake tube. Made it sound fast though!

I like seeing people put the small standard size cone filter and 3" intake tube on a V8 and think it goes faster because the tube is straight and…

Try explaining that one to the grounds keeper. Problem is, there is a public road that runs right behind the catch net. Hard to tell people to watch out for runaway race cars.

I agree, but the issue with that is that steel brakes would overheat by the time the car was stopped from 300+. It’s a catch 22. The way they try to counteract it is to drag the brakes a little bit while being towed up to the staging lanes, it usually gets enough heat in them to function well at 95% of tracks.

Maybe if you’ve ever actually been around drag racing or any kind of actual racing where mechanical faults happen, you would understand. Doesn’t seem like you’ve ever raced anything in your life. Do you even know how the parachute release mechanism works? Ever thrown a chute yourself?

As I said earlier, this was more…

I’m well aware of that. It’s also exceedingly rare that both parachutes (which are on the same release) don’t deploy. It is a chance that it happens, and as I said, it could have come down to human error with the cable being bound, or a 20 cent air line fitting could have failed. Gary is a low budget racer and this…

You fail to realize that the two passes before that, and EVERY pass he made last year, everything worked fine. With drag racing, when shit happens, it really happens. Doesn’t mean the car had any faults. Could be as simple as an air line didn’t cooperate or the cable got bound up somewhere.

Actually, this is more of a track issue. Pomona has one of the shortest shutdown areas because of the way everything built up around it. Most tracks, the cars can stop from 320+ if they have to. It isn’t ideal, but they typically can stop, except at extremely old tracks.

Cucumber beat me to it. Funny cars do have front brakes.

Soooo, as of a couple hours ago, there’s a new quickest 1/8 mile pass ever for a top fueler. Run was 3.703 at 328.06 mph. See incrementals below.

So, today starts the season, and for the first qualifying run of the season, Brittany Force is on the top of the field. Here’s her incrementals:

haha, it isn’t even on ESPN anymore, starting this weekend. Fox Sports 1 has the new contract.

You have to remember, they are constantly passing rules to try and slow the cars down to keep them around the same speeds because of safety factors and shutdown area at older tracks. If you look at their 1/8 mile speeds, they are incredible, hitting over 280, sometimes almost 290 in 660 feet. The last part (340') of…

Doug Kalitta is Connie’s nephew. Connie’s son Scott passed away as a result of an accident at Englishtown that directly led to NHRA only running 1000' now.

The record thing looks like you got figured out. Keep in mind though that the record isn’t the fastest pass ever, it was the quickest and fastest that was backed…