When I was 12 year old I had a Blue Max model and i absolutely adored that little model. Never got to watch it run. Until now. Thank you for this wonderful documentary.
Les Mayhew is a freaking legend!! Thank you so so much Les for everything do for the sport! Your like the Kenny Youngblood of the Camcorder🙏🏻 I was extremely impressed with your mechanical knowledge of all the different cars in the sport. I’m so thankful to have met you helping Rupert out in Vegas. My only wish is that I figured out it was you before Sunday afternoon.
I can’t explain how thankful I am that Les Mayhew filmed & put this together! One of the greatest drag racing films of all-time!!! (Along with your March Meet movies). Wish the “outlaw” fuel altereds didn’t race on an index but they’re still awesome to watch.
First A BIG Thanks to FUNNY CAR CHAOS and Texas Motorplex for a clean professional event! To Nitro America.. Dudes Thank you for ALL your efforts in creating a Super video!!! Well shot and edited! Congratulations to all!!!
Love from across the pond. The best couple of hours of 2022 have been spent watching this, will no doubt watch it again, audiovisual heaven, thanks for this film, love it, love it, love it !!!
ADRENALINE SOAKED!!!I happened to fall onto this while going through videos. I was a crew person with an alcohol/altered for about 5 years. A car called The Fun capsule owned and operated by Robert Sr and Robert Jr Laing. I am currently one third of the way through this movie and I'm thoroughly enjoying it, what a great film with expert editing. If you like drag racing it is a must see that probably won't ever be duplicated. Fully recommend. Thanks
Thanks to the people who put event and movie together. It brought back alot of "Good" Memories. Would like to bring the old crew down next year. Need a new supply of T-Shirts
No, the pistons aren't really that big. The engines are limited to 500 cubic inches. Cadillac made 500 inch engines for passenger cars back in the 70s.
@@MustangGuru No. Not at all.. It's the other way around, the stroke is larger than the bore. A Top Fuel 500" Nitro Hemi has a typical bore of 4.1875", and a stroke of 4.5". The Top Fuel Nitro pistons are only fractions of an inch larger than the ones in a stock small block Chevy.. Or even a 4.3 liter V-6. Now a 500" gasoline Pro-Stock motor, that's a different story. The typical bore is 4.750", and the stroke is around 3.520". Still not anywhere near the size of paint cans. The bore spacing in the block ensures that the pistons can't get much bigger than 4.7", even in an aftermarket 5" bore spacing block.
What an event!! To the film crew who videoed this event Thank You! You all knocked it outta the park with all the different camera views and everything. One of the best events I have seen online. This event is definitely a top 10 bucket list item for me to go to.
Fantastic video, thank you for the time, effort and $$ it took to put this together. The section on the TF/AA Altered class was especially fun to watch. The Altered's were always a favorite ever since I was a kid. Sub 5 in one of those is a REAL feat... very unforgiving and a very wild ride.
Thank you for mentioning Irwindale Raceway, I lived two miles from there and went whenever I had the chance. I was at the last event. We tore down the spectator fence and ran on the track. Great memories.
Les.... thank you so damn much for once again putting together the most beautiful amount of footage nitro lovers like myself need. Absolutely stunning scenes with awesome audio! Hope to see more of your great talent in the coming seasons of motorsports!! 🤙🤙
@1:00:17 funny cars are Floppers!! Horizontal oil Derrick aka rear engine dragsters are Diggers!! Front engine dragster are Sling Shots. Dragster are for crew chiefs to get their confidence back🤣
Wow !! I hope they do this again in the future because I'd just love to come over from the UK to see this. How could you not attend one of these if you're a drag racing fanatic. The history of funny cars all running at one meet. How fantastic. Whoever organised it, I take my hat off to you guys ! Brings back memories of times when you could roll up with your outfit and compete because there was a more level playing field and big money didn't dominate the sport as much.
@@williamtsmith9668 Do you remember the big fight that broke out in the middle of the track when the race was over around midnight? we got the hell out of there and went back to Ft Lewis. 🤣
@@baird5776mullet Amazing you responded, after a whole year! Fort Lewis. Thank YOU for your service. Don't remember the fight. But it was also the Fox Hunt. 😊. So I was probably busy with the Foxes! 💯 God bless. 👻☠️🗽💯🙏
Brings back memories of driving from Yuma to a 64 car race at OCIR in 1967…it was a great day . Those days we weren’t surprised by a 64 car field , now 2024 it would almost be unheard of .They are lucky to have 16 at a national meet . Chris Starr
Wow, this is art. I haven't been to a TF event in 2+ years now and this is what I needed. It's just hit the mark, with the sounds and the atmosphere. Thanks mate for such an amazing video!
My friend, Ted Hoover, used to race CIFCA cars in CA and AZ in the 90's. He died nearly 20 years ago, but I think about him often. I worked for him for nearly a decade at Speed World Motorplex in Phoenix and it was an honor to know him and hear his 100's of teeth rattling stories about just how bad ass funny cars are.
I remember watching Tim and Richard test that altered for the first time @ Vegas testing on Monday. They had 3 elements in that rear wing and the front tires never touched the ground so they pulled a element off the rear wing. AA/FA will always be the kings of the sport in my book! Bad to the bone🦾😎 Richard is still one hell of a wheel man
5 minutes in and this is already the most epic thing in drag racing I have ever seen on youtube. Top notch production my friend, I'm getting choked up just watching this.
This is the sport America! If your not plugged in, your really missing something! These drivers and crews are as friendly as ive ever seen ! 2024 is going to be a great year, come one, come all, you will not be dissapointed !
Many thanks for all of the effort to put this together. From the actual race, and especially the amazing footage. I've always been a Worsham fan. Loved seeing him in the early 90's fighting the big dogs with a small budget. Kind of disappointed that he's out here making this another issue of the most money wins. I realize he didn't win, but if he hadn't been burned down a bit by the circumstances, he would have made another stellar pass without question. Keep the FUN in this.
This depresses me. New England Dragway had multiple meets every year w/packed stands and 32-64 car meets back in the 60's & 70's. I remember watching all the big names run, lining them up down the track side by side and firing them all up at the same time. I wish we could have a meet like this again. Even the WWCS meets were better than the National Event now.🙁
It's money driving now.if you don't have 2 or 3 million dollars budget to run the funny car an the traveling an paying the crew you can't afford to race or sponsorship .now your lucky to have a 16 car field in funny car class at a NHRA EVENT.its sad.
Great job to all involved. It takes a team to make greatness. God bless all that were involved. God bless America for allowing us to enjoy this great sport .
This was a GREAT production, by the Graves family! Thank you for one of the best filmed and documented race videos I've witnessed yet. And for the competitors in this video, thanks for the great sportsmanship, and efforts, put forth by everyone involved. Seeing the great AAFA cars, was a bonus too. Congrats to all the winners, and efforts to all, even the losing parties. Your presence and competitive spirit, is what makes this sport, compare to no other on the planet! 👍🇺🇸
Great Movie, I'm glad you let the cars speak for themselves! No need for music or chat when you can hear these big blown blocks raw! Great Stuff. 🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🚦🚦🚦🚦🚦
I just want to say thank you for properly listing this track as being located in Ennis, not Dallas like most people. It's my home town track and I remember seeing some of the first televised events there as a kid. It annoyed me that the announcers said it was in Dallas, and I still haven't let that grudge go. Lol
Brilliantly put together video. Nice safe racing and some awesome times I would love to get to the Texas metroplex someday,maybe a holiday and get some hog hunting in as well,my nearest track in the uk is Santa Pod which I attend regularly we got a signed piston off Andy Carter one year which my son still has great racing thoroughly enjoyed it thanks
When I was 12 year old I had a Blue Max model and i absolutely adored that little model. Never got to watch it run. Until now. Thank you for this wonderful documentary.
One of the greatest drag racing films of all time! 💯
Geeezus! 4:92 @ 296mph then backing it up with a 304mph pass in a Fuel Altered was AWESUM!!
The finest hour and 45 ive watched,my ears are bleeding ear phones shattered .What a fantastic vid.Loving you all from the UK
Les Mayhew is a freaking legend!! Thank you so so much Les for everything do for the sport! Your like the Kenny Youngblood of the Camcorder🙏🏻 I was extremely impressed with your mechanical knowledge of all the different cars in the sport. I’m so thankful to have met you helping Rupert out in Vegas. My only wish is that I figured out it was you before Sunday afternoon.
I can’t explain how thankful I am that Les Mayhew filmed & put this together! One of the greatest drag racing films of all-time!!! (Along with your March Meet movies). Wish the “outlaw” fuel altereds didn’t race on an index but they’re still awesome to watch.
this probably my all time favorite racing film. been a fan of funny cars since the first steel body guys racing in san diego in the late 60,s
First A BIG Thanks to FUNNY CAR CHAOS and Texas Motorplex for a clean professional event! To Nitro America.. Dudes Thank you for ALL your efforts in creating a Super video!!! Well shot and edited! Congratulations to all!!!
Love from across the pond. The best couple of hours of 2022 have been spent watching this, will no doubt watch it again, audiovisual heaven, thanks for this film, love it, love it, love it !!!
I like seeing them at night light the candles. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Easily the best drag racing videos on the ol TH-cam. Nobody edits like Les.
ADRENALINE SOAKED!!!I happened to fall onto this while going through videos. I was a crew person with an alcohol/altered for about 5 years. A car called The Fun capsule owned and operated by Robert Sr and Robert Jr Laing. I am currently one third of the way through this movie and I'm thoroughly enjoying it, what a great film with expert editing. If you like drag racing it is a must see that probably won't ever be duplicated. Fully recommend. Thanks
I'm more into 8-10 second Street cars, but funny cars are so great to watch. It's mind blowing. Truly modern marvels of engineering.
Thanks to the people who put event and movie together. It brought back alot of "Good" Memories.
Would like to bring the old crew down next year. Need a new supply of T-Shirts
Just a huge THANK YOU from UK. Brilliant and uplifting in these strange times
So much freakin power, pistons the size of paint cans. And able to fill a bath tub with fuel in 1 run. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
..You mean Empty 😈😈
Also, they literally shake the ground the moment they launch from the staging phase.
No, the pistons aren't really that big. The engines are limited to 500 cubic inches. Cadillac made 500 inch engines for passenger cars back in the 70s.
@@davelowets bore and stroke. Short stroke , big azz pistons.
@@MustangGuru No. Not at all.. It's the other way around, the stroke is larger than the bore. A Top Fuel 500" Nitro Hemi has a typical bore of 4.1875", and a stroke of 4.5". The Top Fuel Nitro pistons are only fractions of an inch larger than the ones in a stock small block Chevy.. Or even a 4.3 liter V-6.
Now a 500" gasoline Pro-Stock motor, that's a different story. The typical bore is 4.750", and the stroke is around 3.520".
Still not anywhere near the size of paint cans. The bore spacing in the block ensures that the pistons can't get much bigger than 4.7", even in an aftermarket 5" bore spacing block.
Everyone involved in shooting and editing this deserve enormous pay raises.
This is awesome. Top notch work.
I AGREE!!!
This is a masterpiece. Thanks for having this great event and for filming it!
What an event!! To the film crew who videoed this event Thank You! You all knocked it outta the park with all the different camera views and everything. One of the best events I have seen online.
This event is definitely a top 10 bucket list item for me to go to.
Damn pro mods are running 3.60’s
Everytime a Funny car motor is started it feels like every single person at the track life is in danger.😁....they sound like baby hunterkillers
Great film. And Wichita racer Kyle Smith defeated Del Worsham in the finals? UNBELIEVEABLE!
Fastest 3.5 seconds of Anybody`s Life!!!
LES MAYHEW , You are simply SUPERB , through and through !!!
Thanks for this. Had to be a lot of work
The quality of this race is insane dude. You need a raise
I think NHRA should have fuel altereds at National events! Priceless!
Fantastic video, thank you for the time, effort and $$ it took to put this together. The section on the TF/AA Altered class was especially fun to watch. The Altered's were always a favorite ever since I was a kid. Sub 5 in one of those is a REAL feat... very unforgiving and a very wild ride.
Thank you for mentioning Irwindale Raceway, I lived two miles from there and went whenever I had the chance. I was at the last event. We tore down the spectator fence and ran on the track. Great memories.
every time i see a nitro America video notification, i cant hit that play button fast enough ! outstanding as always
Les.... thank you so damn much for once again putting together the most beautiful amount of footage nitro lovers like myself need. Absolutely stunning scenes with awesome audio! Hope to see more of your great talent in the coming seasons of motorsports!! 🤙🤙
Now, this is some hard core racing. Incredible footage. Thank YOU!
We went to the first one, and we'll be at the next one
FCC2022
Best audio of engine noise I have ever heard. Thank you for only a trace amount of music.
Man..great production.
Thank you..it's like stepping into a time machine to my teen years in the seventies, only with better picture & sound..
👍
I absolutely love funny cars. You did a great job of showing them and all of their power.
Les........He's the Best......Nothing to say.
You guys killed it! The filming angles are amazing! Loving funny car action, bringing it to our homes, thank you!!
@1:00:17 funny cars are Floppers!! Horizontal oil Derrick aka rear engine dragsters are Diggers!! Front engine dragster are Sling Shots. Dragster are for crew chiefs to get their confidence back🤣
Wow !! I hope they do this again in the future because I'd just love to come over from the UK to see this.
How could you not attend one of these if you're a drag racing fanatic. The history of funny cars all running at one meet. How fantastic. Whoever organised it, I take my hat off to you guys !
Brings back memories of times when you could roll up with your outfit and compete because there was a more level playing field and big money didn't dominate the sport as much.
Been living in Ennis all my entire life and can't wait until they get back every year
I saw an event called 64 funny cars @ SIR in Seattle in 1978, they ran all 64 in one afternoon and evening.
Me too! 😎.
That was just after they closed the strip in Puyallup. We used to have 2, countem 2 National NHRA events in WA State every year.
👻☠️🗽💯🙏
@@williamtsmith9668 Do you remember the big fight that broke out in the middle of the track when the race was over around midnight? we got the hell out of there and went back to Ft Lewis. 🤣
@@baird5776mullet Amazing you responded, after a whole year!
Fort Lewis. Thank YOU for your service.
Don't remember the fight. But it was also the Fox Hunt. 😊.
So I was probably busy with the Foxes! 💯
God bless.
👻☠️🗽💯🙏
@@williamtsmith9668 God bless you also 🙏
Thats Was When Drag/Racing Was Racing back in my day in the 70s .Great Vid .Greatings from UK
Brings back memories of driving from Yuma to a 64 car race at OCIR in 1967…it was a great day . Those days we weren’t surprised by a 64 car field , now 2024 it would almost be unheard of .They are lucky to have 16 at a national meet . Chris Starr
Fantastic footage. Love the AA/FA's. Can watch them (and the Outlaws) all day and night.
Vintage Nitro America style! Great work, Les!!
They should bring this to Beechbend
Dragsters are for Crew Chiefs to get their confidence back🤣🤘🏽 great job Les!!!
Wow, this is art. I haven't been to a TF event in 2+ years now and this is what I needed. It's just hit the mark, with the sounds and the atmosphere. Thanks mate for such an amazing video!
My friend, Ted Hoover, used to race CIFCA cars in CA and AZ in the 90's. He died nearly 20 years ago, but I think about him often. I worked for him for nearly a decade at Speed World Motorplex in Phoenix and it was an honor to know him and hear his 100's of teeth rattling stories about just how bad ass funny cars are.
awesome editing/producing... just awesome !
Beautiful work, Les! Thanks a lot!
Thank you very much for this here labour of love. Awesome story, amazing filming, perfect sound. Just bang on.
Had a smile on my face the whole time! Thank-You!!
Nice work! RESPECT
I remember watching Tim and Richard test that altered for the first time @ Vegas testing on Monday. They had 3 elements in that rear wing and the front tires never touched the ground so they pulled a element off the rear wing. AA/FA will always be the kings of the sport in my book! Bad to the bone🦾😎 Richard is still one hell of a wheel man
Nitro flames look impressive on video but its when you see and feel the sound in person you will never forget it
Immersive, beautifully captured ode to the art of drag racing.
Well done to all involved. Bravo!
Love the turbo car.
I'd pay to be there. These guys are the gearheads of motor sports for sure.
5 minutes in and this is already the most epic thing in drag racing I have ever seen on youtube. Top notch production my friend, I'm getting choked up just watching this.
Great work all. Thanks Guys!
This is the sport America! If your not plugged in, your really missing something! These drivers and crews are as friendly as ive ever seen ! 2024 is going to be a great year, come one, come all, you will not be dissapointed !
Love these power cars and Sounds 💪😉😎
HELL FIRE on Wheels With Blowers Added!!! Only 7 mins. in and Lovin' it. Great Job.!.
Excellent thanks for posting!
So glad you’re making videos again! Finally some decent nitro videos to keep me busy. Thanks Les, keep up the good work!
Awesome power, and guts! Thank You for sharing!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😀😀😀🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Many thanks for all of the effort to put this together. From the actual race, and especially the amazing footage.
I've always been a Worsham fan. Loved seeing him in the early 90's fighting the big dogs with a small budget. Kind of disappointed that he's out here making this another issue of the most money wins. I realize he didn't win, but if he hadn't been burned down a bit by the circumstances, he would have made another stellar pass without question. Keep the FUN in this.
Brilliant Movie, enjoyed it all gonna try and see some funny cars live this year I think!
Thanks 👍🏻
I am so glad youtube put this up there for me to click on, this was so well shot and the audio orgasmic. Well done
This depresses me. New England Dragway had multiple meets every year w/packed stands and 32-64 car meets back in the 60's & 70's. I remember watching all the big names run, lining them up down the track side by side and firing them all up at the same time. I wish we could have a meet like this again. Even the WWCS meets were better than the National Event now.🙁
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It's money driving now.if you don't have 2 or 3 million dollars budget to run the funny car an the traveling an paying the crew you can't afford to race or sponsorship .now your lucky to have a 16 car field in funny car class at a NHRA EVENT.its sad.
@@shaneswayze6228 you mean 5- 10mill plus
This is in your face racing, Awesome simply Awesome!!
Great job to all involved. It takes a team to make greatness. God bless all that were involved. God bless America for allowing us to enjoy this great sport .
Brilliant video. All the sights and especially sounds that us funny car nuts love... What the hell was that cop car and the lady officer all about?
Les, you're the goat man! i appreciate it
At 18:40 when Brutus wheel hopped, that was a first for me. Thanks for the slow-mo
Some excellent camerawork, great editing, very good presentation. Les Mayhew, you just are the best!
This is a truly excellent film . Very well done.
The raw brute power is still awesome!
❤️🇺🇸 Screaming more more more👍🏻✌🏻😎
Brillant work Les!
Love the 70s body's
This was a GREAT production, by the Graves family! Thank you for one of the best filmed and documented race videos I've witnessed yet. And for the competitors in this video, thanks for the great sportsmanship, and efforts, put forth by everyone involved. Seeing the great AAFA cars, was a bonus too. Congrats to all the winners, and efforts to all, even the losing parties.
Your presence and competitive spirit, is what makes this sport, compare to no other on the planet! 👍🇺🇸
The smell of NITRO is the greatest thing I've ever smelled!!!
Add who wants to cover their ears up? Isn't that one of the reasons you're at the rac
@@judykrewson4446 aren't you just the perfect lady!! Love it
That was sooo cool. Thank you!
Awesome edit 👌
Welcome back Les! Fantastic as always!
thanks for posting this. Love the NHRA.
We lived in Fort Worth Texas, and I have been to the Ennis race place multiple times with my wife. We always had the best times there.
Great Movie, I'm glad you let the cars speak for themselves! No need for music or chat when you can hear these big blown blocks raw! Great Stuff. 🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🚦🚦🚦🚦🚦
Brilliant watch , we get a 8 car field in the UK at the pod .
Awesome Video Les !
My eyes and nose are watering just watching them idle... I live about 20 miles from the Gatornationals and when I don't go, I can still hear them.
Awesome video, terrific coverage 🤙🏼🤩❤️
Wow. What a way to launch a channel!
Awesome work Les! I hope to see more.
I just want to say thank you for properly listing this track as being located in Ennis, not Dallas like most people. It's my home town track and I remember seeing some of the first televised events there as a kid. It annoyed me that the announcers said it was in Dallas, and I still haven't let that grudge go. Lol
Thank you for making this and sharing, 70 cars amazing: all amazing build’s
4.92@296mph.
Fuckin insane. That's what you call being alive folks.
Jfc. Backed it up with a 304mph pass. Wow.
Brilliantly put together video. Nice safe racing and some awesome times I would love to get to the Texas metroplex someday,maybe a holiday and get some hog hunting in as well,my nearest track in the uk is Santa Pod which I attend regularly we got a signed piston off Andy Carter one year which my son still has great racing thoroughly enjoyed it thanks