4-Seconds Top Fuel Dragsters @ Hockenheimring NitrOlympX 2017!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- I have never been so anxious to go see an event as in this case. And almost exclusively because I absolutely wanted to hear and "feel" these monsters. And I wasn't disappointed at all!
Top Fuel Dragster are the quickest accelerating vehicles in the world, the fastest drag racing category and the loudest racing cars on Earth. Top Fuel races on a distance of 305 metres (1,000 ft) and not the traditional 402 metres (1/4 miles) after a fatal crash in 2008. They're moved by supercharged V8 engines powered by nitromethane (around 90%) and methanol (10%) able to push the car from 0 to 160 km/h (0-100 mph) in less then a second and complete the 300 metres strip with speeds over 500 km/h (310 mph) with an exit time of less than 4-seconds! Power of this engine is estimated to be from 8,000 to 10,000hp.
Ok, numbers can give you an idea of what you are watching but there's nothing that can describe what you feel being there in person when a Top Fuel opens its throttle. All your body and organs shake and your brain can hardly understand what the hell it's going on. That's something every person on Earth should experience at least once in his life... Oh and this video just gives you and idea less than 1% about their sound.
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Event: NitrOlympiX 2017
Where: Hockenheimring, Germany
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Top Fuel is unlike anything else. A must see for any car enthusiast.
Thanks for showing all kinds of motorsports
this is an excellent channel
The only thing missing is two wheels...
No problem! It's a pleasure for me ;)
Thank you so much!
You're right. My next video from NitrOlympX will be about drag motorbikes so maybe in the future....
Only the people that have been to a Top Fuel event know how brutally violent these things are. They rob the air from your breath, flutter your eyes, beat your entire body and make your feet uncomfortable. Holy crap these things are awesome.
100% agree with you
I'm glad you got to experience it. It looks like they're catching on in popularity across the pond. I haven't been to one in years (late 90's). I know they've run them in some capacity since the 70's, but not like a traveling circus that it is here in the states.
bkm72 ,m,
bkm72 agreed 100%. It's unbelievable
beat your entire body and make your feet uncomfortable. Holy crap these things are awesome best way to say it Ive ever heard!
Sitting right on the start line when these things race is the most mind-blowing experience. You'll never ever feel anything like it. Incredible!
2:20 the Tire deformation is crazy
It's because the tire is specifically designed to behave that way. If you put in a similar tire built like any normal racing tire (the tread I mean) the tire wouldn't expand like that. The purpose is to make the tire superwide at the start to stick maximum to the track, and the faster you go, the bigger the radius becomes and thus gives you way more top speed.
Called Tire Wrinkle and Tangential Spring. Racers and engineers used to say that they would never break 300mph because the math didn't allow. The math said they couldn't...until they did and they didn't know why. Tires. That's why. At the last push, the tires release their stored up energy. Take that F1 lol.
These guys are slower. I was seeing 4 seconds.
I've been watching them for the last 25 years. I love them. They're brutal. No compromise. Only 1 purpose. To go as fast as possible. King of the jungle!
Went to Pomona for the first time a few months ago... the sound and shakes are some that I will never forget! Need to go again as soon as possible!
I remember my 1st time seeing a top fuel launch.
Literally yelling at the top of my voice and unable to hear myself.
The punishment your chest takes is crazy.
Watching a failed launch still drop a 7 or 8 second 1/4 makes you realise just how hard these things push off the line
There is nothing quite like these cars. Don't know about in Europe but here they produce close to 11,000hp. It's pretty wild.
ShadowUOP Wow
8.000bhp
Drag racing in Europe is like child's play compared to the USA, not only for HP. I mentioned it before, here in all over Europe we have only 6 top fuel events. Hockenheim is the closest for me, a 5 hour trip(290 miles) In the USA there's a dragstrip in every corner of every state ,I guess. Therefore I envy you Yanks......
it depends on how they tune the car and if the track can hold it
As someone else mentioned, the highest hp number I've seen is 8,000. Even with 'just' 8,000 hp, the speeds are so ridiculous that piles of rules to try and keep them from going any faster. There are restrictions on air intake size, gear ratios, engine displacement, etc.
OMG, Bozzy! There is nothing quite like Top Fuel Dragsters. For the record, I've watched these things on tv blast the 1/4 mile since I was a little boy, but your video representation of them is actually better than what gets televised. Both the audio and video quality is so crisp and clean... pretty amazing! I like that angle from directly behind the burnout box. You don't see that one on tv. If they show it briefly, it's not for the duration of the run from start to finish. Those huge V8s are so earth shattering, even some of the pit crew members still jump during launch. LOL! That's some real power right there... the kind you never get complacent with, but also the kind you can't get enough of. In person, they will rattle your cage and everything inside it, won't they? haha. Fantastic work, my friend! Cheers!
They deserve respect for sitting in crates that are the quickest accelerators built by human hands! Nothing else accelerates so fast. This feeling when the earth quakes - unbelievable 🙈💪
David van Davidsen have you ever heard of rockets?
@RealCapo88 No worries, I absolutely love top fuel. I just wanted to be a Grammar Nazi because David's statement: "the quickest accelerators built by human hands" is simply not correct. Scientiests can for example accelerate protons to about 10^21 g, which is significantly higher than top fuel's max 8g acceleration :P But yeah, in my opinion even "the quickest human-transporting accelerators built by human hands" wouldn't be correct, as rockets can accelerate so much quicker (and don't rely on tyre grip, since they move forward through propulsion).
This track affected the race recently...
What happened?
pakan357 it made a ton of drivers crash
There's nothing quite like the smell of nitro first thing in the morning!! ;) Seriously, I've grown up and lived in So. Cal. all my life. As a teenager back in the 60's, we had drag strips everywhere out here. I practically lived at Lions Drag Strip in Wilmington, CA. The cars weren't as fast back then but the sounds were the same. We could stand less than 30 feet from the cars as they launched off the line. That nitromethane smell in your face made you gag but it was heavenly! God, I miss those days. Now all the major strips are gone except the Pomona Fairplex. It's used just a few times a year, mainly for the NHRA Winternationals and Finals. Those are now the only two major meets here in the area. Sad...
3.9sce pass at 487kph!!!! INSANE!
Amen to every word in the description. The experience of 10k hp is unlike anything on this planet.
For anyone that's never been to a top fuel race, not only are they loud, but you feel it in your chest
@19Bozzy92 - you cover a lot of the Motorsport I love seeing in the metal; WRC, Top Fuel, F1 (during the v8 era).
I knew as soon as I saw you had a Top Fuel video that it would be the best representation of the sport by anyone. Sure enough, you’ve done it again!
Great work as always.
Thanks a lot! That was one hell of an experience to feel them in real life btw :O
These cars are Monsters and the hell on earth! 😆
Video simply cannot capture the reality of these nitro-methane fire-breathing monsters. It is something you must experience in person to fully appreciate. Pretty much all senses are involved, except for maybe 'taste.' And that's just watching them from the stands!
Well worth seeking out the experience at least once in your life. You will not regret it.
Sono andato 4 volte ad Hockenheim a vederli, '97, '99, '03 e '07 e so perfettamente cosa hai visto. ;)
Mi manca troppo quella roba li e un giorno ci tornerò.
That must have smelt amazing
awesome video, seeing one of these is definitely on the bucket list
Thanks! Yes, you won't be disappointed at all ;)
This is amazing. Great editing to get them all together like that. Thanks
Nobody brings the sound like Bozzy does!
heheh thanks! But it's impossible to record these things properly XD
Nicely done, brought back memories and … uh feelings
your videos always capture the sounds so well.
Went to a NHRA event a few years ago and have been meaning to go back. Nice video as always!
imagine if it can take corner like f1 car
would be an exciting race
Not really, considering the driver would die from the G-forces.
I was there, it was fantastic.
Its so nice to see Drag racing gaining popularity in Europe. Still missing Funny Cars though
Royal Stygian Funny cars were there, no worries. I was at the event and gosh were they fast too. :-)
Now these are real hot rods. I have seem a lot of racing and NHRA drags are a BLAST! Too bad the video does not go as far as the chest pounding feel and the eye tearing Nitro smells.
This video does indeed capture that awesome sound of Top Fuel dragsters! Great Job!
Erstes ma vor ca 35 Jahren , faszinierend , Tractor pulling auch , wahnsinn
Been watching these things in person since before I could walk. My dad carried me to the races in his arms. Nitromethane is in my veins. It literally feels like an earthquake. I live my life a quarter mile at a time lol
nice that you joined the few that experienced the feel of a top fuel dragster at wide open and nice vid
Yeah, finally! That was the thing I was waiting to experience the most in my life. But now I feel the need to see some US Top Fuel ;D
4-Wide Nationals in Charlotte, NC. 40,000 HP on the track. And soon there will be a second track with 4 lanes in Vegas.
No lie you can hear that shit 2 miles away
0:59 My jaw hit the floor.
Per the usual, EXCELLENT work Bozzy! Rock on, man.
The diffs on these things must be unreal.
I hadn't realised the european drag racing bodies had followed suit from the USA and switched to 1000ft runs instead of the quarter mile. A little disappointing, since it means records before and after the change aren't comparable at all. Won't be long before we do the same here in Australia though, I suppose.
The USA is approaching a point where they most likely will shorten it more or some type of limit. The current speed record is 339 mph. So we are even faster now then before the switch.
I asked them at Sonoma and they had to do it because the cars were too fast and didn't have enough runoff room on the older tracks. Leah just ran a 3.64 1000 ft and Robert Haight just ran a 3.78 or something like that at 338 mph which is getting nutty. Cruz Pedragon ran off in Denver after the chutes failed luckily he had enough runoff and brakes.
IHRA still runs quarter miles, NHRA has it shortened to 1000 feet. Funny thing is, literally about 90% of the speed is reached in the 8th mile. 8th mile they are typically hitting 300mph, 1000 feet 325 or 330 and even full quarter they may only do 330 or 335.
We have already been running 1000ft in Australia for a few years now.
That's insane!
True Meth-heads of Motorsports. Nice work, Bozzz! B.P.
You can't imagine how much I need another dose of Nitromethane and those loud-earthquaking V8 sounds... I'm an addict right now XD Thanks dude!
Bwahahah! Damn, you sound like me there. Thanks to you for supporting the habit. Careful with your detox we need you! B.P.
Great thanks to you and Matty. There are many parts and peoples of America about whom I'm not happy. Our NHRA and NASCAR are world class and, clearly unique. I'd guess you'd love spotting at NASCAR's road tracks. I've had as good a time at Watkins Glen as I ever had when I saw F1 there, every year from 1968 on. There's a lot of good TH-cam about all aspects this giant and uniquely Ah-mur-i-cun sport. Not a lotta carbon fiber in these steel frame and body, 4-on-the-floor, 3 pedal, 9,000rpm, 800hp, 230mph MONSTERS...Come see!
Mark Elliot World Class NHRA and NASCAR????? LOL.............What drugs are you on???
American Motorsport is a joke in the rest of the worlds eyes as the dumb ass Yanks get excited by either watching cars race in a straight line for 5 seconds or driving around an oval for hours at a time, Yawn, how boring.......
Actually I'm an F1 fan. Aged out of recreational drugs and alcohol. Both of these American sports are world-sized and watched world-wide. My NFL fans say golf is for sissies-have you ever played 19 holes in August on a East Coast US course in the afternoon? Or strolled down the back nine of the Master's final round. My tennis friends love to argue how that's the most arduous world-sized sport. Some brothers threatened to beat the crap outta me when I suggested that, no, boxing is not the world's biggest sport. Me? I might struggle to define arrogance and snobbery-but I know it when I see it.
GfFAW! Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah! Whatever you say bounces off me and onto you! Xxooxx's, David. Xxooxx's...nI
@@davidlyon6394 average British cars are what are jokes. Go back to the circus you came from and putt around in your clown car.
i have to concur with you about your description..to hear these things in person...you will be changed.I once thought it would clever to not plug my ears during one run...I am not kidding when I say,I kept hearing these things in my head for 2 weeks..most likely suffered some permanent hearing loss.
I tried leaving my ears uncovered for 1 of these races, about half a second in I immediately plugged them. I can leave my ears uncovered for jet cars and trucks, not tfd.
It dates me, but about 40 years ago I attended a top fuel event where spectators were allowed unrestricted access up to the staging area. I was just to the side, less than 10 feet away as the cars launched. While I plugged and covered my ears as best I could, the noise was so loud it hurt my chest. I was also showered with black, burnt rubber droplets falling out of the sky for the next 10 seconds. One run at that distance was enough. Meanwhile, the crew members routinely stand nearby
They sound insane
They are! The sound goes through your body! If your in the bathroom it will scare the crap out of you! It happened to my son! :)
The fact that this Motorsport made it to Germany is fucking awesome lol
from the tracks website Competition Distance ¼ mile (Top Fuel Dragster
1000 ft)
Did this event run into the night? That's when these are the most fun imo. You can see the flames so well when the sun goes down, it's awesome!
Yes, but only on Saturday for the night show. Maybe I'll be there next year ;)
@@19Bozzy92 Well, will you go? I couldn't go this year, but next year I 100 % want to go and finally see them in person.
ACHTUNG!
Since you experienced most forms of racing. Who has the loudest cars?
Haben diese Dinger nur einen Gang und da gibt der Motor volle Power von Anfang bis Ende? Frage mich wie das funktioniert
When the lights turn green it's as if the driver's reactions seems instantaneous. Do they kick in the throttle manually or is it electronically controlled?
CaptainPanick the throttle is manually controlled by the driver. It seems instantaneous because the whack the throttle open as soon as they see the three ambers. If you hit the throttle when you see the green, you lose.
The speed is shown in km/hour, but what distance is used on a 'metric' track?. Is this an equivalent of an eighth mile or exactly an eighth mile?
Distances are exactly 1/4 mile for all drag racing classes and 1,000 ft for these Top Fuel dragsters. Instead the 1/8 mile is rarely used here in Europe
Thank you for the reply. Your videos are excellent.
NIce video what type of mic do you use for your vids.
Thanks! I'm using a Canon DM-100 mic
Nice video, anyone know how long the engines last for?
One run. Many major components carry over to multiple runs but valve springs, bearings, piston rings and spark plugs are replaced every run. Spark plugs are actually destroyed halfway down the quarter mile by heat and the engines diesel to the finish line. Compression and glowing hot exhaust valve burns the nitromethane even with the twin spark plugs melted. Clutch pack is destroyed in a single run, too. Engines blowing up is also pretty common so you often need to replace more than the routine parts.
Sorwis jeeeeeese sounds like they need a lot of spares, cheers for the info
That's intense!
Yep. It's cool to see the teams rebuild the engines. The job takes around 40 minutes and you see how incredibly sturdy some of the components(conrods are hilarious) are yet they still fail during a short run. I don't know how much horsepower these European versions make but 11k hp was broken in the US not too long ago.
are they even trying to burn all the "gas"?? It comes in buckets out of the exhaust
American muscle at it's finest
Ok,i will mix some nitrous with methanol in my dirtbike..
I generally don't know what your income is or anything, but you should try the formula single seater experiences at yas marina and the dubai autodrome. I'll probably never get to try them, so therefore I must live through you.
tractor pulling is also very vey loud, i've seen monsters with 5 Huge V8 engines or 3 V12... that's not far from what the Hell sounds like! ;-)
The Utopia Of The Distopic Future Monster trucks are loud as fuck too, especially in a stadium. But I've seen Top Fuel and they make monster trucks sound like toys.
Is this 1/8th mile? Seems so short and cars dont sound as loud
definitely 1000 feet, the times say it through the speed. 3.9 seconds at 500 km/h, typically they run quarter mile in 4.5 seconds.
Una correzione da fare nella tua descrizione: ora la potenza non è più stimata come una volta ma misurata direttamente. ;)
They sound scary wtf 0:57
แรงๆทั้งนั้น เครื่องV8
How can they afford a new engine per race with this little people in the audience?
I saw NHRA in Sonoma and this is so bad ass as well! F me!
War auch Dachdecker
1:40
Cool
1/4 Or 1/8
malta
Are those speeds in Kmh or mph?
kph
how do your ears feel now xD
more than 40000 horsepower at 26000rpm
simon simon These engines don't produce that much power and they don't rev that high either.
yeah uh........ how the hell......did......Where the hell did you get that imformation!!
thez are sitting at about 10k hp ^^
ears feel good. I was wearing headphones. It's my body that is still shaking a bit XD
0:42 der typ ist ja mal locker weg xDD
Lets see an electric car do this.
electric motors belong in slot cars..........
Stirling Moss There you go. Not as loud, but still insane: th-cam.com/video/_LQXB1DX-2Q/w-d-xo.html
miles4711 This isn't an electric car doing a 4 second pass. You proved my point.
lol not gonna happen for a long time. Most powerful electric car currently makes about 2000hp. Even at its lightweight setting they weigh the same as one of these cars. About 20% of the power of a tfd.
These must burn through fuel like nobody's business
Actually, they burn through the whole tank in a single pass, and they are decently sized tanks.
Also they run on pure NOS
Disney how many gears do they have? I can't hear any upshifts
I am not sure, but i think they have a 2 speed automatic
Disney they actually have no transmission. Instead they've got a giant multi-disc clutch pack. I think they use up to 5 discs at once. These things make so much power that no gearbox on earth would be able to withstand the forces. In fact, some of the discs physical weld together at the end of the run! That's 11,000 hp for ya!
Ok thanks, i think i remeber something about their clutches lasting like 1 race. But the differential has to be pretty beefy though?
Pauroso
Hafermann
Liebe Grüße von Adolf kess
Kess
Hat mir immer erzählt von Erlensee
Those front wheels.... very very LOL :D
Erbacher, can't stand the guy.
Awesome sounds as usual @19Bozzy92 , These cars make the ground move in person. Nothing comes close to how your body reacts to them live.
How are they able to do burnouts with virtually no acceleration, while simultaneously being able to do 0-300 in such short time with no traction issues?
Edit: they put some sort of liquid on the tyres?
They are able to do a burnout because of two main reasons, the tires themselves are cold, they are air temp until after the burnout which depending on length can leave them as high as 150-200F(65-93C) and the water that is put onto them.
Nice
MRFUCKOFF202 they use a throttle stop when doing a burnout limiting the revs, take it off before the runa
Naru Dracul They are using water but you don’t want that much tire temp. Ideally within 10F of the track temp. The tire will grow in size which effects the tuneup with too much temp and the surface of the tire will blister. Longer burnouts also put more heat in the clutch and burn more fuel. Shorter burnouts work best
That is insane!