Would it be possible to make the time display a little more blurry? It's almost readable as it is, if it was slightly more blurry you could pass it off as a Christmas display in the fog.
@@OoogaBoog dude in video say, they did small adjust and went from 150 to 201, still a long road to go, but if this is actually true then maybe its not that far away
With that much high speed switching on the power system... I'm sure there is a good amount electromagnetic interference going on there. I'd love to see what it does to WiFi. So yeah, now they'll just complain about that too.
@@ramosel Which would make it not really a "Karen" thing to complain about, but more a general housing issue, you can't be building houses next to something like this... The fuel cell is going to be more dangerous than gas too, it's just asking for trouble near houses.
@@I_Crit_My_Pants Agree to a certain point. Ideally, the powers that be should have never approved housing or tourist business next to a track. But every politician wants that property tax revenue to spend on some boondoggle. But since they did they should have insisted on addendum at the time of sale that residents could not complain about pre-existing noise. We used to make a “F you b*tch” stop at the winery near Sears Point every time we got black flagged for noise.
@@kden1271 some might not know that Top fuel cars don't run the quarter mile. Just a 1000 feet. If a top fuel car had a full quarter mile it's top speed would be even higher.
Drag cars are only loud because they have to be to make that kind of power and speed. You could put most of this drag cars components into a normal car and run mid to high 8s, like the Plaid does.
@@davidsod6800 A electric motor that has a entirely different purpose people watch for the entertainment not for the silence and boringness a lot of people go just to experience hearing a engine like that up close and feeling it you make the sport quiet and boring a lot of people will leave regardless of how its powered.
You do realize there's tons of street driven cars capable of well over 200. There's a street driven Mustang with a 275 drag radial that has run a 6.26 1/4 mile. It has a factory cast block and factory heads. It had a stock crank but deflection was too much past 2900 hp it would eat bearings. 302 cubic inches making 10 hp per cubic inch. Early this year, a top fuel dragster hit 300 mph in a 1/8th mile. Electric is just a novelty that won't last, it's too slow to race and will never range with loads like diesel. Internal combustion will continue.
@@tailwatcher2500You people have been saying the same thing for years but last year the best selling model of car was an EV. ICE is going the way of the horse.
@drunkenhobo5039 and the top 3 best selling vehicles, Ford, Chevy, and Ram trucks, in that order. With the Ford alone selling nearly double that of the Model Y. You know what will never be replaced by EV? Trucks. It's basic physics. It currently takes over 400 kg of the market's best battery to match the stored energy of a single kilogram of diesel fuel. The biggest problem being a really inefficient engine from the factory made worse by an EPA that is extremely ignorant. There are diesel tuners that are able to make diesel engines have more power, gains in mileage, and produce less emissions, yet the EPA is fining them and threatening prison for removing the "emissions control devices." They can prove all of this with testing, and they don't have to fake the test like all of the auto manufacturers. An EV truck will never be as capable as a modified diesel. To understand how far EV actually is, I'll point the fastest EV dragster just hit 200 mph in a 1/4 mile, last year a top fuel dragster hit 300 mph in 1/8th mile.
It kinda does doesn't it! Reminds me of back when.....when I imagined designing electric bikes back 50 years ago, but having no idea how they'd be powered. Then too thinking if slot cars were only life size and how fast they might go.....now we have the Tesla. Who'd thunk it?LOL
I've been going to drag races for decades. I like the noise that rattles your bones, the flames. the smoke etc. If an electric dragster made a quarter mile run in two seconds flat, I might get a little excited, but I'd still prefer the noise, fire, smoke though.
I wonder if the flapping sound at the launch and half way down the track were from the sidewalls wrinkling from the torque? Also, very cool to do it at an empty venue to be able to hear just how much noise it doesn't make.
It's true that the sound dragsters make, make up a large percentage of the excitement a Drag race has to offer. I couldn't EVEN sit through 3 hours of that....😂
I walked our tar streets in the summertime in the south as a child, thats what our bare feet sounded sticking to the street as we walked lol! For real though!🤠👍
I knew they were always silent but I never put it into perspective just how it goes from zero to everything lol. I've had RCs cars that went 70-80mph but they always had a fan lol
I don't think it has to be gas vs electric ...it can be both but create a separate class for electrics. I got my first ev a few years ago. It had one of the lowest hp ratings. Yet it was very peppy - instant acceleration - no lag - it felt as quick as higher rated gas cars....so much fun to drive.
They are not for everyone but it worked well for me. I drove it local, no trips, so the problems with charging stations was not an issue for me. I did all my charging at home. I saved about $100 per month fuel cost (electricity is cheaper for me than gasoline). I had the car 4 years with no oil changes (saved hundreds) and had no repair bills (no tune ups etc). I was able to trade it in and had a very low depreciation cost. I bought the car at just the right time and got a great deal (don't see deals like that anymore.) I would have kept it but the range was getting low because I bought it used and had it 4 years. The cost to replace the battery had more than doubled in those 4 years so I did not do it.@@johnnyporter7655
@@scrambledmandible Sure they did, electric cars go back to the 19th century. An EV held the speed record for cars until 1900. Combustion vehicles didn't sail by them until the electric starter was invented. Another advantage to a combustion vehicle hauling moonshine is that it can be used as fuel if need be!
That's pretty awesome. Certainly the future of drag racing, but I just don't get excited without the roar of an engine and the smell that comes with it. The ground vibrating and the thunderous roar. It's going to do wonders for zoning though.
There is only one company in the world that can make multiphasic motors and solid-state calcium batteries, so it will be the end of competition ! That is why the GM Delphi rail only ran for exhibition!
That's the kind of thing that will bankrupt drag strips. Nobody will pay to go see that. Not taking anything away from the builders but watching that would put me to sleep.
@@Emma-i9x Logic must not be your thing. How are you going to compete in said sport without a place to compete? Drag strips cost a lot of money to maintain. How are they supposed to do that without fans paying to watch?
@@Gunner001 You don't have to have it in every city. Like there aren't hundreths of FIA Grade 1 cirquits and that's okay. I don't need them everywhere. I got 2 in my country and that's enough. I can travel there easily to watch and even marshall at, if I want. Even Grande 2 we have 4 and that's enough.
What about big daddy’s electric drag ? That things a monster to this . They had problems because it was so powerful it kept destroying itself but they still had a few runs
"Big" retired it. His was DC, Huff's was AC..... DC can burn things up pretty fast... like controllers and motors, which Don had repeated troubles with.
@@Romans--bo7br 👍ha ha ha it was funny as big D was selling it as going green when it was a ploy to keep racing when he was banned from racing top fuel
Growing up my father used to take me and my brother to the NHRA finals in Hershey PA. We could barely hear ourselves think let alone talk and this is insane just how quiet they are.
With electricity, it's just a matter of matching current and voltage. Keep in mind that in this video, we're not looking at the latest and greatest battery and motor tech here. This is one hobbyist's dream. If corporate and sponsorship were behind this (like any ICE race today), it would progress much faster.
Totally agree, I was at the first TT Zero on the IOM an that was just as exciting (NOT) no sound, no smell an half off them didn’t have enough juice to do one lap. 🥱🥱🥱🥱
the funny thing is. the way you launch in dragracing is that you are already revved up to the best part of the engines powerband aka youre instantly getting all the torque the engine can provide as soon as you release the clutch. so the whole ”instant torque” of EVs is irrelevant. its all how you get that power down to the ground. most of the videos where a tesla races against a muscle car and wins. its a 4wheel drive car aka two cars that are never in the same class. if the engines have the same hp and torque adn both the EV and the ICE car acn put that power down it will be a pretty even fight. so… the electric motor to compete with 10000hp fire breathing nitro engine is going to have to be pretty stout XD
Years ago a friend and I used to go to a run down local drag strip in Riverhead NY to watch local guys race. One weekend Shirley Muldowney showed up to race. It was the first time I'd seen a car like that in person. When that thing lit off it was like entering a different dimension. It was so loud and so forceful, it was freakin amazing. Lol, one guy on the side of the track dropped to the ground. Maybe he thought the thing was gonna blow up and kill him. I'll always remember that... If she showed up in this thing I wouldn't have cared one bit.
I used to work for ASRA and ASCCA in Arizona. Assuming this is the same organization since it's in Tucson. This was back in the 90's and we had an electric circuit that was started by three universities. I flagged corners back then and it was the most boring job ever when the electric cars were on track. We had a running joke between the flaggers crew where we would press the talk button down on our comms every time the cars would pass your corner, just so the rest of the crew working the field could hear the cars driving. It got so silent at firebird that you could fall asleep during these races so we did everything we could to keep us entertained. Again this was the 90's so the cars didn't have the speed that they do today and if it wasn't for us hitting comms and laughing the entire time, we would have gone insane with boredom 😂😅
Exactly. The absolute best part of seeing an NHRA race is FEELING the cars literally shake you to your core. There is nothing else on earth like it. I wouldn't walk across the street to see this for free.
I bet you look at lights and go “life was better when these were candles”. Or at computers and think “they were better when we had to stamp our programs”. Electric is simply faster, better, harder, stronger
My dad was in the drag racing business and I spent my youth at more racetracks than I can remember. Nothing sounds better than a nitro burning engine. I can still hear it to this day!
yep. dragracing to the people watching is the spectacle of it and the sound punching you in the chest as they vanish. the flames and the insane looking vehicles
@utha2665 Not long when they started using Chrysler Hemi's. How long did it take them to make an EV? And how much did it cost compared? And how toxic and dangerous are the batteries?
@@utha2665It took over 100 years for EVs to be able to do 200 mph in the quarter mile. So Don't hold your breath. It took the Hemi V 8 on race gas, (No Nitto Methane) in less than 10 years of work. EV will NEVER be as quick or fast as today"s Nitromethane top fuel dragsters, even in your Great, great kids lifetimes. 13,000 hp Top fuel ICE by ghe laws of physics has a much, much higher power to wright ratio than any EV vould ever have. Ewuivalent to 13 Tesla Plaids, with 25% the weight one one Tesla Plaid. The physics isn't possible. Aldo Jet aircraft will ALWAYS be much faster than ANY E plane EVER could be
I dunno.... I'm a retired EE and SCCA racer. I think it's really cool they are able to do this with the flow of electrons... But, it just doesn't have the visceral appeal of Top Fuel. Your ears don't overpressure and go to static, you can't feel your chest pounded by every header pulse, the smell of Ozone just isn't the same as smell of Nitro-methane and your eyes don't burn. last but not least...It won't make Tim Taylor grunt.
First electric car late 1800s to this. Huge achievement. Yes! But watching your buddy jump out of his skin. Experiencing his first throttle wack. Priceless!
The lack of alcohol fueled chaos really helps you hear everything that goes on with the car and track, i swear i could even hear the tyres deforming under torque! From a petrol head perspective, it has no soul, but from a scientific perspective I'm all for it
that's really impressive, i guess you don't need a spoiler with a metric ton of batteries. these cars will probably push the concept of "go as fast as possible in a straight line". but i don't think people go to the drag strip just to have it sound like an R/C car taking off. the fun is in the loud noises and flames out of the exhausts.
But on the flip side, you don't need to have drag strips that have been there for decades get taken out by housing development that complain about noise either.
@@origaminefretami3480 The only tracks, either road, dirt, or strip that I know that still exist are still in a rural area and haven't been closed due to being encroached by housing. Who cares who was there first. But strips are going to close because right-to-repair anything from your watch to tractor are going to raise a generation where practically nobody is a gear-head anymore.
Looks like a top end run, more then off the line. Impressive for how early in to the power development process EV drive trains are. Getting in to the 6's will be hard work, will be fun to watch it happen.
I’ve been doing foundational research on this. Specifically having a road legal passenger vehicle capable of 2000Hp at the wheels in a dyno setting. Off the shelf motors aren’t going to get near it. 1500 Kw is 1000 volts at 1500 amps. I know a certain motorcycle team that runs a 1000 volt architecture for about 10 minutes. The risks are up there with the moon shot. The cooling system alone needs a secondary loop cooled by either dry ice or liquid nitrogen. That’s just for a 10 second run using 18Mj or 5kwh. At least 10% of that will go as heat. It takes 8Mj to get 2000 kg to 320Kmh in a vacuum. Short of a rail gun or some other external power source today this (2000Hp ATW for 10 seconds under 2000Kg in a mobile application ) is near impossible
@@theairstig9164 Aside: Why do people think Moon Shot's are risky? So much testing an developing has been done that make Rockets safer to ride in then Cars on a freeway. It's just when things do go wrong, the whole world sees it, and then knee-jerks a reaction faster then John Force at the Tree.
@@theairstig9164 "Off the Shelf motors",... This, I would expect. Tesla's Model S and Model 3 hardware was engineered to move the Wingflaps on Starship (S) and gimbal the Raptor rocket engines (3), with the Powerwall hardware being what is strapped in to the ship to power them. This is why their drivelines are far more over-engineered compared to nearly every other EV install, but even those can only handle the full power acceleration loads for short periods of times before they have to be backed off and allowed to cool. Comparitively, the gearbox in the Bugatti Veyron is limited by heat soak to about 22 minutes of operation at full throttle, Bugatti was happy with that, as at full throttle the car's tank is empty in 19 minutes, giving it time to cool off. The 1000hp Veyron W16, actually makes closer to 2500hp, the rest is used up driving the cooling system and alternator, power steering, friction, pumping and thermal losses. We accept these limits to performance normally, and then there are guys like in this video that decide not to, and go chasing records. I have no doubt that None of this car uses off the shelf parts, and like the motorbike team you mentioned, will be all custom engineered parts, and to see the sort of power needed to move the mass hard enough to stay with the fueler, is going to take motors with solid busbars instead of windings, and the liquid Nitrogen you mentioned, with that cooling flowing through the insides of both the stator and rotor, and will need batteries made as low mass as possible. If they can do it under 2000kg, it will drive forward the technology in ways we can't begin to imagine.
I'm glad the builder and driver are happy. The stands will be just as empty for a full day of head to head racing. There ain't no substitute for the smell of burning nitro etc, etc.
What? This EV drsgster went so flow I almost got bored and fell asleep . 200 mph in ghe quarter is very slow by 1960's standards, much less today. EVs eill NEVER be able to compete with Nitromethane top fuel ICE
It's amazing how every comment is comparing electric to ICE. Why do so many people treat them like they are mortal enemies? Electric is good in its own way and fuel is good in its own way. Why must everything be polarized? 🙄
@@alexanderlucas2659 i don’t think that will change. I’m a fan of many types of motorsports, I’ve attended many events, I don’t see electric drag racing being popular.
I wonder how much all of those batteries weigh....and how long does it take to recharge between runs??!! Kinda fun though....it sounds sort of like my battery drill.
@@NootNooot: Really? It would seem to take quite a while with all of the amps that the machine is pulling, but, who knows, maybe they have spare batteries that are charged and ready to swap out!
Would it be possible to make the time display a little more blurry? It's almost readable as it is, if it was slightly more blurry you could pass it off as a Christmas display in the fog.
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We will never know how fast that car ran. It could have been a 22 second run that they hyped up to make us all believe it was something else.
@@bashr52 The time itself is readable, it's 7.9s, also he mentioned final speed was 201.
@@joemama069 only 4.3 seconds and 140mph to go
@@OoogaBoog dude in video say, they did small adjust and went from 150 to 201, still a long road to go, but if this is actually true then maybe its not that far away
I've been at louder libraries
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I can't read.
@@danstephens3344Neither can I.
I can see that being a benefit. Lots of places currently aren't allowed tracks thanks to noise limits, this should open it up for more places.
Karens are still gonna complain after they move in next to the track.
With that much high speed switching on the power system... I'm sure there is a good amount electromagnetic interference going on there. I'd love to see what it does to WiFi. So yeah, now they'll just complain about that too.
@@ramosel Which would make it not really a "Karen" thing to complain about, but more a general housing issue, you can't be building houses next to something like this... The fuel cell is going to be more dangerous than gas too, it's just asking for trouble near houses.
@@I_Crit_My_Pants Agree to a certain point. Ideally, the powers that be should have never approved housing or tourist business next to a track. But every politician wants that property tax revenue to spend on some boondoggle. But since they did they should have insisted on addendum at the time of sale that residents could not complain about pre-existing noise. We used to make a “F you b*tch” stop at the winery near Sears Point every time we got black flagged for noise.
Which is why they should never be listened to when it comes to anything.
When the car is so quiet, you can literally hear the track prep sticking to the tires. I swear, you could almost hear the sidewalls bind on the hook.
You can hear the lights humming. Boring.
@@cmo5459 - I can hear your mother humming... is that boring?
@@driverjamescopeland Only the way you describe it. But your mom tells me you were never clever, even as a child.
i worked the bleach box years ago, and that was the quietest bun out in history.
BOR-RING!
When the title says "shocks driver", I was thinking of an electric shock.
Me, too!
I was hopeing😂😂😂😂😂😂
I think that's called "click bait"
So was the author....😮
Yep.. click bait for sure.
That was weird. Imagine going to a drag where you can sit there and talk to other people. Heard louder noises on the golf channel.
And watching slow ass cars... he ran a 7 at 201... top fuel just set a record at 341......
@@kden1271 I recall when I used to attend Fremont Drag strip in CA and saw the 200 mph broken there for the 1st time back in the 60's.
The noise, smells and speed is why we go race. This had none of those, except tire smoke only. Boring AF.
yep and they still didn't wake the audience
@@kden1271 some might not know that Top fuel cars don't run the quarter mile. Just a 1000 feet. If a top fuel car had a full quarter mile it's top speed would be even higher.
This Drag Race is brought to you by the National Hearing Institute.
At least deaf people can feel vibration they would even find this shit boring😂
Hilarious comment 🤣😂😂
I was only listening to this video; what actually happened??
Drag cars are only loud because they have to be to make that kind of power and speed. You could put most of this drag cars components into a normal car and run mid to high 8s, like the Plaid does.
@@Optimistprime.and still boring AF!
No noise no nitro methane think I will just go fishing
With your ELECTRIC trolling motor.......lol.
exactly
@@davidsod6800 A electric motor that has a entirely different purpose people watch for the entertainment not for the silence and boringness a lot of people go just to experience hearing a engine like that up close and feeling it you make the sport quiet and boring a lot of people will leave regardless of how its powered.
@@davidsod6800 An electric motor to hit the river?... For what exactly lol
@@krillion6866 so you are saying that the only interesting thing in a drag racing is the noise?
Watching the tires change shape on the burnout at 1:10 is unreal.
Wow, that's cool! Didn't notice it the first time
It’s the same with cars with real engines
They become oblate sphereoides - LoL!
Drag tires have a lower psi compaired to conventional tires. That explains why they rapidly expand during burnouts.
@@1wheeldrive751 and who was saying tha tis not? stop crying and go watch your beloved combustion videos, get out of here
i know the noise is the whole fun of it but theres something crazy about being able to hold a conversation next to a 200mph dragster run
You can hear a mouse fart its so quiet
You do realize there's tons of street driven cars capable of well over 200. There's a street driven Mustang with a 275 drag radial that has run a 6.26 1/4 mile. It has a factory cast block and factory heads. It had a stock crank but deflection was too much past 2900 hp it would eat bearings. 302 cubic inches making 10 hp per cubic inch. Early this year, a top fuel dragster hit 300 mph in a 1/8th mile. Electric is just a novelty that won't last, it's too slow to race and will never range with loads like diesel. Internal combustion will continue.
Not bad, just got another 135mph to go.
@@tailwatcher2500You people have been saying the same thing for years but last year the best selling model of car was an EV. ICE is going the way of the horse.
@drunkenhobo5039 and the top 3 best selling vehicles, Ford, Chevy, and Ram trucks, in that order. With the Ford alone selling nearly double that of the Model Y. You know what will never be replaced by EV? Trucks. It's basic physics. It currently takes over 400 kg of the market's best battery to match the stored energy of a single kilogram of diesel fuel. The biggest problem being a really inefficient engine from the factory made worse by an EPA that is extremely ignorant. There are diesel tuners that are able to make diesel engines have more power, gains in mileage, and produce less emissions, yet the EPA is fining them and threatening prison for removing the "emissions control devices." They can prove all of this with testing, and they don't have to fake the test like all of the auto manufacturers. An EV truck will never be as capable as a modified diesel. To understand how far EV actually is, I'll point the fastest EV dragster just hit 200 mph in a 1/4 mile, last year a top fuel dragster hit 300 mph in 1/8th mile.
Reminds me of my slot car racing days.
You beat me to the comment.😁
It kinda does doesn't it! Reminds me of back when.....when I imagined designing electric bikes back 50 years ago, but having no idea how they'd be powered. Then too thinking if slot cars were only life size and how fast they might go.....now we have the Tesla. Who'd thunk it?LOL
I've been going to drag races for decades. I like the noise that rattles your bones, the flames. the smoke etc. If an electric dragster made a quarter mile run in two seconds flat, I might get a little excited, but I'd still prefer the noise, fire, smoke though.
Now you can build a electric drag strip next to a hospital
Or a library
DRAG RACE! (Yeah!!!)
for handling the accidents directly ?
@@chargehanger I never considered what a safety advantage that would be. Thanks
@@kenneymitchell1186 Darwin disagrees with the concept of "Safety"
I wonder if the flapping sound at the launch and half way down the track were from the sidewalls wrinkling from the torque? Also, very cool to do it at an empty venue to be able to hear just how much noise it doesn't make.
I think that is exactly what the noise was.
It's the tires sticking to the track prep, maybe a little wrinkle but not after the 60 ft
My Nissan Leaf sounds the same when I floor it. Hahah
fifteen percent slip
It's true that the sound dragsters make, make up a large percentage of the excitement a Drag race has to offer. I couldn't EVEN sit through 3 hours of that....😂
shocking that it’s so quiet, you can hear the rear slicks sticking to the track, never heard that before!
I walked our tar streets in the summertime in the south as a child, thats what our bare feet sounded sticking to the street as we walked lol! For real though!🤠👍
I knew they were always silent but I never put it into perspective just how it goes from zero to everything lol. I've had RCs cars that went 70-80mph but they always had a fan lol
This thing is a beast. Steve has been working and reworking it for years. He used to be my motorcycle mechanic. Glad to see he’s got it in the track!
If this is the future ain’t nobody gonna drag race
I don't think it has to be gas vs electric ...it can be both but create a separate class for electrics.
I got my first ev a few years ago. It had one of the lowest hp ratings. Yet it was very peppy - instant acceleration - no lag - it felt as quick as higher rated gas cars....so much fun to drive.
With all the problems,why would you buy one
They are not for everyone but it worked well for me. I drove it local, no trips, so the problems with charging stations was not an issue for me. I did all my charging at home. I saved about $100 per month fuel cost (electricity is cheaper for me than gasoline). I had the car 4 years with no oil changes (saved hundreds) and had no repair bills (no tune ups etc). I was able to trade it in and had a very low depreciation cost. I bought the car at just the right time and got a great deal (don't see deals like that anymore.) I would have kept it but the range was getting low because I bought it used and had it 4 years. The cost to replace the battery had more than doubled in those 4 years so I did not do it.@@johnnyporter7655
Hp is not acceleration HP iis how high the endgame is in velocity, EV have torq
What problems? @@johnnyporter7655
@lw216316.... Enjoy it!.....EV's Won't be around much longer. PS; It should be.. "gas vs electric" - vs NITRO!!
My question do they have the equipment to put out a electric fire
Impossible. The EV freaks won't tell you that.
Excellent point. 🔥
A container filled with water isn't very complicyted to put somewhere.
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@@diymicha2water conducts electricity. Just thought you’d like to know.
What an absolute embarrassment. If I was that driver, I would climb out and run light heck. Something like this will kill drag racing.
Next stop , electric Nascar.... can't wait!
There's a reason nobody delivered moonshine in an EV.
It does have a little appeal left don't it ,that should do it the rest of the way in
@@derekheim8172because they didn't exist yet?
@@scrambledmandible Sure they did, electric cars go back to the 19th century. An EV held the speed record for cars until 1900. Combustion vehicles didn't sail by them until the electric starter was invented.
Another advantage to a combustion vehicle hauling moonshine is that it can be used as fuel if need be!
That's pretty awesome. Certainly the future of drag racing, but I just don't get excited without the roar of an engine and the smell that comes with it. The ground vibrating and the thunderous roar. It's going to do wonders for zoning though.
But use 10,000 KWH per run every drag strip will need a nuclear reactor
THEN DRAG RACING HAS NO FUTURE , I WOULD NOT SPEND MONEY TO WATCH AN ELECRIC DRILL LOL
There is only one company in the world that can make multiphasic motors and solid-state calcium batteries, so it will be the end of competition ! That is why the GM Delphi rail only ran for exhibition!
The future of drag racing? God, I sure hope that isn't the case. Drag racing will lose at least one fan for certain.
@@harrypalmer291 call it the women’s basketball of drag racing
I have them make their own drag racing league and see how many fans they get through the gates
Not the same without the roar of an engine.
WHAT... I cant hear you tinnitus.
Earplugs.
That's the kind of thing that will bankrupt drag strips. Nobody will pay to go see that. Not taking anything away from the builders but watching that would put me to sleep.
Let them bury their own sport 😂
If this is true there are to many drag strips to begin with.
It is about the sport, not the entertainment.
@@Emma-i9x Logic must not be your thing. How are you going to compete in said sport without a place to compete? Drag strips cost a lot of money to maintain. How are they supposed to do that without fans paying to watch?
@@Gunner001 You don't have to have it in every city.
Like there aren't hundreths of FIA Grade 1 cirquits and that's okay.
I don't need them everywhere. I got 2 in my country and that's enough.
I can travel there easily to watch and even marshall at, if I want.
Even Grande 2 we have 4 and that's enough.
Don't congratulate yourselves too much! A group of Swedish Students built their own car & did in both directions in 0.956seconds, verified!
Well, that was…. sedate.
I'm upset. Too much noise and smoke. Can't we just run a simulation of this and watch it in VR?
@@KC9UDX 100% someone would still comment 'this is the future of racing, so exciting and impressive'
@@origaminefretami3480definitely. And those people never witnessed a Nitro Dragster in person
It's just not the same without the crazy flames and INCREDIBLE roar . . .
….and the nitro exhaust fumes burning your eyes! 😁. Top Fuel all the way.
yeah it's 10x better electric without the noise etc
I haven't seen someone that excited about going 200 MPH since Big Daddy Don Garlits did it in the mid 60s.
Now you can race at 2 in the morning and not have people bitch about the noise
Wow now drag races will be like going to a silent movie.
Maybe they'll pipe an old player piano through the PA.
What about big daddy’s electric drag ? That things a monster to this . They had problems because it was so powerful it kept destroying itself but they still had a few runs
"Big" retired it. His was DC, Huff's was AC..... DC can burn things up pretty fast... like controllers and motors, which Don had repeated troubles with.
@@Romans--bo7br 👍ha ha ha it was funny as big D was selling it as going green when it was a ploy to keep racing when he was banned from racing top fuel
@@pauldean8638 Don Garlits is 92 years old.
@@N2YTA dude still rocks even at 92
A microwave cooks fast but you can fall asleep watching it, same thing with golf cart rails.
Thats like trying to say 1% skim milk is delicious😂
Growing up my father used to take me and my brother to the NHRA finals in Hershey PA. We could barely hear ourselves think let alone talk and this is insane just how quiet they are.
When the current ICE rails are running 3+ seconds at 350mph, this isn’t impressive.
Yep , its street car fast lol .
4.4 seconds but ok
With electricity, it's just a matter of matching current and voltage.
Keep in mind that in this video, we're not looking at the latest and greatest battery and motor tech here. This is one hobbyist's dream.
If corporate and sponsorship were behind this (like any ICE race today), it would progress much faster.
@@pavanbiliyarwhy would they sponsor something that nobody is going to watch
I watch Grandma clean er dentures. i have to say that was more exciting they flipped out of her hands, and she caught them in mid-air 😮
Lol 😂
i mean that does sound exciting XD
That had me doubled over. Yew bewdy!
Totally agree, I was at the first TT Zero on the IOM an that was just as exciting (NOT) no sound, no smell an half off them didn’t have enough juice to do one lap.
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Imagine how shocked he would be in a way faster Nitro Dragster.
I think some people are missing the point of this.Electric drag racing has many hurdles to overcome, especially weight.This is an awesome achievement.
Dang i feel asleep half way through the video. How did it end guy's? I don't want to re rewatch it.
like watching and AC/DC concert with no audio...
Call me oldfashioned, but this lacks any drama or excitement. Yes, electric would be better at stuff like this, but who would watch this?
the funny thing is. the way you launch in dragracing is that you are already revved up to the best part of the engines powerband aka youre instantly getting all the torque the engine can provide as soon as you release the clutch. so the whole ”instant torque” of EVs is irrelevant. its all how you get that power down to the ground. most of the videos where a tesla races against a muscle car and wins. its a 4wheel drive car aka two cars that are never in the same class. if the engines have the same hp and torque adn both the EV and the ICE car acn put that power down it will be a pretty even fight.
so… the electric motor to compete with 10000hp fire breathing nitro engine is going to have to be pretty stout XD
Probably a bunch of electricians.
@@hyacinthbucket3803nahhh, most electricians are blue collar workers and would prefer something more exciting.
Great job. Got 138 mph to go. .....
God bless Brittney and her awesome Dad !
Years ago a friend and I used to go to a run down local drag strip in Riverhead NY to watch local guys race. One weekend Shirley Muldowney showed up to race. It was the first time I'd seen a car like that in person. When that thing lit off it was like entering a different dimension. It was so loud and so forceful, it was freakin amazing. Lol, one guy on the side of the track dropped to the ground. Maybe he thought the thing was gonna blow up and kill him.
I'll always remember that... If she showed up in this thing I wouldn't have cared one bit.
I used to work for ASRA and ASCCA in Arizona. Assuming this is the same organization since it's in Tucson. This was back in the 90's and we had an electric circuit that was started by three universities. I flagged corners back then and it was the most boring job ever when the electric cars were on track. We had a running joke between the flaggers crew where we would press the talk button down on our comms every time the cars would pass your corner, just so the rest of the crew working the field could hear the cars driving. It got so silent at firebird that you could fall asleep during these races so we did everything we could to keep us entertained. Again this was the 90's so the cars didn't have the speed that they do today and if it wasn't for us hitting comms and laughing the entire time, we would have gone insane with boredom 😂😅
The guy’s yell at the end was the loudest sound all night.
Shit, it ain’t no fun without the noise and smell of nitro burning your eyes.
Exactly. The absolute best part of seeing an NHRA race is FEELING the cars literally shake you to your core. There is nothing else on earth like it. I wouldn't walk across the street to see this for free.
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Amen bro.
@@twalker294 same. Electric motors are good at devices, sedans, city cars. Not in racing or sportscars and shit
What was the 60' time? It didn't look as fast as I thought an electric would be.....
This is the automotive equivalent of a vegan burger. Kid yourself all you want - it’s not the same.
I bet you look at lights and go “life was better when these were candles”. Or at computers and think “they were better when we had to stamp our programs”.
Electric is simply faster, better, harder, stronger
@ Sure I do. The same way you regard women as an inefficient waste of time when you have a perfectly adequate hand.
@@colin5577 I’m into guys. I named my hand Colin in your honour ;)
As exciting as watching the grass grow.
Nah , not that exciting :) .
It reminds me of a garage door opener.
No noise, no excitememt, no raw fuel, no rumbling ground pounders.
My dad was in the drag racing business and I spent my youth at more racetracks than I can remember. Nothing sounds better than a nitro burning engine. I can still hear it to this day!
Keep in mind that is NOT a quarter mile.
Thats about as much fun to watch as a librarian restocking book shelves.
If she has nice legs and is on a ladder...
Depends on the librarian …
201mph. Suddenly it’s 1969!
In 1977 Dyno Don did it with doors.
I didn't fully wake up watching this video until they started yelling.I didn't even know what they were yelling about.Then I changed videos
Ive never seen anything about electric cars that isnt absolutely positively boring.
yep. dragracing to the people watching is the spectacle of it and the sound punching you in the chest as they vanish. the flames and the insane looking vehicles
I’d need to be shocked too….to stay awake
thats about as exciting as watching days of our lives
LOLed! Priceless!
Top fuel Hemi rails have been doing well over 300 mph for years now. All the technology still is behind.
300 in 2.9 seconds now. 1/8th record
EV race car tech is still in its infancy. Give them time.
Remind me, how long did it take a drag car to hit 200 mph in a quarter mile?
@utha2665 Not long when they started using Chrysler Hemi's. How long did it take them to make an EV? And how much did it cost compared? And how toxic and dangerous are the batteries?
@@utha2665It took over 100 years for EVs to be able to do 200 mph in the quarter mile. So Don't hold your breath. It took the Hemi V 8 on race gas, (No Nitto Methane) in less than 10 years of work. EV will NEVER be as quick or fast as today"s Nitromethane top fuel dragsters, even in your Great, great kids lifetimes. 13,000 hp Top fuel ICE by ghe laws of physics has a much, much higher power to wright ratio than any EV vould ever have. Ewuivalent to 13 Tesla Plaids, with 25% the weight one one Tesla Plaid. The physics isn't possible. Aldo Jet aircraft will ALWAYS be much faster than ANY E plane EVER could be
I dunno.... I'm a retired EE and SCCA racer. I think it's really cool they are able to do this with the flow of electrons... But, it just doesn't have the visceral appeal of Top Fuel. Your ears don't overpressure and go to static, you can't feel your chest pounded by every header pulse, the smell of Ozone just isn't the same as smell of Nitro-methane and your eyes don't burn. last but not least...It won't make Tim Taylor grunt.
Just like how old poker clips only appeal to poker nerds. The engineer in me wants to take it apart and build this back together
If it ever comes to this,,,, I'll never go to another drag race. Part of the experience is hearing and feeling the roar of the Nitro engines
I'll make sure to tell them.
Use your headphones with full volume while watching electric racing. TH-cam is full of Nitro dragster noise 🤣
@@bobsnabby2298 You know, that is true, but I won't be able to feel the thunder in my skin from these electric want to bes.
First electric car late 1800s to this. Huge achievement. Yes! But watching your buddy jump out of his skin. Experiencing his first throttle wack. Priceless!
The lack of alcohol fueled chaos really helps you hear everything that goes on with the car and track, i swear i could even hear the tyres deforming under torque!
From a petrol head perspective, it has no soul, but from a scientific perspective I'm all for it
You need a LOUD STEREO SOUNDING LIKE A,10, 000 HP engine....lol
If I ran a track that's exactly what I'd do on EV night. Crank the metal constantly and play engine noises when they launch.
Imagine going to a drag strip just to hear all the crickets.😂
It'll definitely stop race tracks being shut down for excessive noise!
that's really impressive, i guess you don't need a spoiler with a metric ton of batteries.
these cars will probably push the concept of "go as fast as possible in a straight line". but i don't think people go to the drag strip just to have it sound like an R/C car taking off.
the fun is in the loud noises and flames out of the exhausts.
The smell of rubber mixed with high octane is intoxicating
But on the flip side, you don't need to have drag strips that have been there for decades get taken out by housing development that complain about noise either.
@@wihamaki but no one will watch it so strips will still close.
@@origaminefretami3480 The only tracks, either road, dirt, or strip that I know that still exist are still in a rural area and haven't been closed due to being encroached by housing. Who cares who was there first. But strips are going to close because right-to-repair anything from your watch to tractor are going to raise a generation where practically nobody is a gear-head anymore.
Looks like a top end run, more then off the line. Impressive for how early in to the power development process EV drive trains are. Getting in to the 6's will be hard work, will be fun to watch it happen.
I’ve been doing foundational research on this. Specifically having a road legal passenger vehicle capable of 2000Hp at the wheels in a dyno setting. Off the shelf motors aren’t going to get near it. 1500 Kw is 1000 volts at 1500 amps. I know a certain motorcycle team that runs a 1000 volt architecture for about 10 minutes. The risks are up there with the moon shot. The cooling system alone needs a secondary loop cooled by either dry ice or liquid nitrogen. That’s just for a 10 second run using 18Mj or 5kwh. At least 10% of that will go as heat. It takes 8Mj to get 2000 kg to 320Kmh in a vacuum.
Short of a rail gun or some other external power source today this (2000Hp ATW for 10 seconds under 2000Kg in a mobile application ) is near impossible
@@theairstig9164 Aside: Why do people think Moon Shot's are risky? So much testing an developing has been done that make Rockets safer to ride in then Cars on a freeway.
It's just when things do go wrong, the whole world sees it, and then knee-jerks a reaction faster then John Force at the Tree.
@@theairstig9164 "Off the Shelf motors",... This, I would expect. Tesla's Model S and Model 3 hardware was engineered to move the Wingflaps on Starship (S) and gimbal the Raptor rocket engines (3), with the Powerwall hardware being what is strapped in to the ship to power them. This is why their drivelines are far more over-engineered compared to nearly every other EV install, but even those can only handle the full power acceleration loads for short periods of times before they have to be backed off and allowed to cool. Comparitively, the gearbox in the Bugatti Veyron is limited by heat soak to about 22 minutes of operation at full throttle, Bugatti was happy with that, as at full throttle the car's tank is empty in 19 minutes, giving it time to cool off. The 1000hp Veyron W16, actually makes closer to 2500hp, the rest is used up driving the cooling system and alternator, power steering, friction, pumping and thermal losses.
We accept these limits to performance normally, and then there are guys like in this video that decide not to, and go chasing records.
I have no doubt that None of this car uses off the shelf parts, and like the motorbike team you mentioned, will be all custom engineered parts, and to see the sort of power needed to move the mass hard enough to stay with the fueler, is going to take motors with solid busbars instead of windings, and the liquid Nitrogen you mentioned, with that cooling flowing through the insides of both the stator and rotor, and will need batteries made as low mass as possible. If they can do it under 2000kg, it will drive forward the technology in ways we can't begin to imagine.
We are not early. Been electric cars for over a hundred years. There is a reason the model S Tesla is 25% battery weight.
the silence should alert you something obvious - top fuel thunder cant be replicated !
1/8 mile? 1000 feet? 1/4 mile? A plethora of information in this video. Smh
Since they only seem to be concerned with the speed at the big end, not the ET I would assume it's 1/4 mile.
I'm glad the builder and driver are happy. The stands will be just as empty for a full day of head to head racing. There ain't no substitute for the smell of burning nitro etc, etc.
Electric racing is kinda boring but this isn't about a spectator sport, it's about battery and electric motor technology.
Watching belt sanders race is more exciting .
Nice job. Would have been helpful to know if 1320 or 1000.
1/4
Just skip this technology and start working on Star Trek transporter technology to get from one end of the track to another.
What? This EV drsgster went so flow I almost got bored and fell asleep . 200 mph in ghe quarter is very slow by 1960's standards, much less today. EVs eill NEVER be able to compete with Nitromethane top fuel ICE
That was FAST and... boring all at once 😂
I like top fuel... Call be biased.
I watched a Delphi rail run for exhibition only in 2008 it was impressive. They swapped the battery for every run.
The radio make more NOOOISEEEE
Only another 100mph and 2 seconds off the ET and you’ll be competing with the noisy boys.
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LMFAO
Anti-climatic without the BLAST it'll never draw crowds
if it's hitting 400 500 mph , thats the only way it would draw a crowd
I’m not convinced crowds would show up even for higher speeds. If racing goes all electric, I think it will be the death of racing.
You could hear the driver passing flatulence! 😂 My Docter said this kind of unplanned excitement could give me a widomaker ha
That was so surreal - just silence and a bit of electric motor whine! Fantasic effort on 201 and a 7.9 - absolutely astounding.
_Why is the video muted_
Me, being a dumbass until I eventually realised.
So exiting!! Nothing like watching a silent movie! Submarine races anyone???
is this for real? 200mph... :/ i bet he was shocked how slow it was ...
EVs are just fast because they have no regulations like ICE has. Put regulations away and the tables turn quickly
Thought my cellphone speakers are muted... then i realized there is no sound. Soulless, dead, no heart
It's amazing how every comment is comparing electric to ICE. Why do so many people treat them like they are mortal enemies?
Electric is good in its own way and fuel is good in its own way.
Why must everything be polarized? 🙄
Now 2 days to recharge the batteries.
It takes a few minutes actually
that "burnout" ................🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
oh man if this is the future of drag racing i go to chess tournaments.
Anyone who's watched top fuelers live will know how this isn't even in the same realm. Electric motorsports just suck.
Wow ! The noise ! The smoke ! The excitement !! Wake me up when it's over
When will people understand it's not just the speed it's the sound as well.
Unless you can get 10000 hp in electric motors they'll never beat a real drag car
Nope. Not a chance.
Did you hear the crickets in the stands watching this, might as well watch paint dry it's so exciting!
Between rounds you get to watch them charge the batteries, that will be exciting!
It's an empty venue
@@alexanderlucas2659 i don’t think that will change. I’m a fan of many types of motorsports, I’ve attended many events, I don’t see electric drag racing being popular.
I wonder how much all of those batteries weigh....and how long does it take to recharge between runs??!! Kinda fun though....it sounds sort of like my battery drill.
Probably shorter than the engine rebuild they normally need to do every run
@@NootNooot: Really? It would seem to take quite a while with all of the amps that the machine is pulling, but, who knows, maybe they have spare batteries that are charged and ready to swap out!
I think they are more capacitor type batteries so the charge time is very very short then.
I bet you can recharge those batteries faster than you can rebuild an engine.
@top fuel crews do it in less than an hour, they go faster too mikem.8487
Please I cannot read the performance on the display. Could you share it please?
That was Bad A..!!!! Congrats guys!!!!
bUt i CaNt hEaR aNyThiNg 😭👶🍼