Santa Pod

[Tris]

Was there on Saturday

Top Fuel Dragster - 4.6 seconds & 318 mph terminal speed.

Super Twins ACE especially because the quickest wasn't a H£$%ly but a KTM

All the top fuel bike riders though must be as mad as cheese :roll: :roll: :roll: . One guy, still on the throttle, took out the timing lights in the middle of the track at the 1/4 mile and carried on untill he ran down the wall in the wrong lane.

'twas awsome - everyone should go at least once to see drag racing, especially the top fuel cars

[Jester666]

The first time I went we were standing by the start line. I had heard the noise as the top fuel guys did their burn outs and thought it wasn't too loud!
When they actually went for it though.............
My mate who was standing behind me couldn't work out if I was trying to put my head in my pocket or get my hands out of the pockets and into my ears!!
Soooo loud! :shock:
Excellent day out though. :lol:

[philipMac]

Huh. So, like, have you ever seen any of these lads blow up? I'd imagine the engine are on the ragged edge at the best of times.

I want to go and see a rally some day. Like, one of those nuts stages out in the **** end of Wales in a hilly forest or something. That would be kind of fun. Sitting on the side of the road, listening to the radio, and then hell breaks loose, and then peace again. :D

Like watching the Tour de France. Only louder.

[Daimo]

Anyone comment on the spectator death death?

Something about a dragster popping its chute and a bloke of 68 getting hit by debry. LAter died in hospital.

[trickywoos]

Blimey, not good.

I love drag racing, excellent day out, esp at Santa Pod.

[Tris]

My mate who was standing behind me couldn't work out if I was trying to put my head in my pocket or get my hands out of the pockets and into my ears!!

Which reminds me

Was in the barn at one point and there was a silly mare there with a baby. Neither she nor the baby had any hearing protection.
Top fuel funny car left the start line and she put her hands over her ears. She'll probably wonder why the poor little bu**er deaf

[Daimo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/5334466.stm

[SV1000s]

I've never seen the point in this, all that money and effort for 10 seconds??

[Daimo]

Ahh but if we all thought like that, the world would be a boring place as we'd all end up doing the same things....

[SV1000s]

Ahh but if we all thought like that, the world would be a boring place as we'd all end up doing the same things....

oh, I agree, hence me saying that I have never seen the point, I was watching it on TV the other night and just didn't 'get it' I guess, other than the mechanics I just fail to see the skill involved. I'm sure there is a skill, just can't see what it is.

Give me bends and lean any day.

:lol:

[Filipe M.]

I'm sure there is a skill, just can't see what it is.


Try to keep something in a straight line at 300+ mph. Now try to keep that straight line pointing away from the other straight lines, namely walls! :lol:

[Baph]

I've never seen the point in this, all that money and effort for 10 seconds??

Sounds like a normal friday/saturday night to me....













COAT!

[SV1000s]

I'm sure there is a skill, just can't see what it is.


Try to keep something in a straight line at 300+ mph. Now try to keep that straight line pointing away from the other straight lines, namely walls! :lol:

So, don't turn the wheel then...no?

[Filipe M.]

I'm sure there is a skill, just can't see what it is.


Try to keep something in a straight line at 300+ mph. Now try to keep that straight line pointing away from the other straight lines, namely walls! :lol:

So, don't turn the wheel then...no?

I guess someone will be here shortly to correct me, but I guess at that kind of speeds the wheel will pretty much try to turn itself! :lol:

[Tris]

Ahh but if we all thought like that, the world would be a boring place as we'd all end up doing the same things....

oh, I agree, hence me saying that I have never seen the point, I was watching it on TV the other night and just didn't 'get it' I guess, other than the mechanics I just fail to see the skill involved. I'm sure there is a skill, just can't see what it is.

Give me bends and lean any day.

:lol:

It's like any live motor sport, television just convey the feelings that being there does.

As far as the top fuelers dragsters go, the trick is getting 8000 horespower onto the track without spinning out. That strikes me as quite skillful :lol:

[Daimo]

So no-one saw anything then?

[SV1000s]

So no-one saw anything then?

Eh?

:?

[Daimo]

Read my replies, a spectator got killed.

[northwind]

Yup, read about that on OSS... Either a piece of debris from a parachute launch, or a bit of debris kicked off the track by the parachute, looks like. Very sad. All motorsport has risks, but you still don't expect that.

The whole classes/breakouts thing in Straightliners always struck me as ridiculous. You run your qualifier, which decides what class you're in. But if you run a fast qualifier, you get put into a fast class where you might be unable to compete. You run a slow one, and you get in a slow class, where you might be able to clean up. It's not done on engine sizes or similiar (though there's specific classes like top bike, funnybike, supertwins, most road-legals go into the timed classes I think.

Then, you get the breakout rules. If you're in 10.4 and you run a 10.39, you lose. So you're not actually trying to go faster, you're trying to hit the target time. Ridiculous, to me. You see people win a session because they fluffed the start, and the other guy takes off and breaks out. Imagine it "Sorry Valentino, you lose because you lapped in 1.30 and broke out, Max ran a 1.40 which was fastest time in class"

So, there's skill in that, I suppose, but getting the timing that precise is as much luck as judgement, I reckon. If you're aiming at 10.4, you're surely as likely to get a 10.39 as a 10.41. One is a win, the other is disqualification.