Whats the website mate? I'll have a chat with the wife about possible dates and let you know if I pop there so maybe we can have a beer whilst we're there.
Hey @JBR-Kiwi, do these run regularly at the track near you? If they do and they are in the day it would be great to pop down and take my son. Whilst he may struggle with the noise I think he'd love seeing the amazing dragsters and watching them fly down the circuit.
I dunno but there's something quite refreshing and satisfying watching the flames burst out of a dragster that is ripping past you in nano-seconds.
Yeah there's always something going on at Santa Pod. It's definitely exploded back into popularity again and the crowds keep growing.
Keep an eye on the website and wait for an event with the top fuel cars in it and then he will get to experience the sight of the fast cars, the noise and the vibration/bass that goes right through you when the Top Fuel monsters go past. Plenty of the stands there sell ear protection if either of you require it so it's a good day out.
@JBR Kiwi That video is amazing. I agree with you, the sound is truly magnificent to hear. Do you get to know what types of jet engines did they use? Are they very common now in Drag Racing?
From what I understand a lot of them use jet engines that you would normally find in a helicopter and you are looking at nearly 5,500lb of force. In a full bore clean run you are looking at a speed of nearly 340mph in a quarter mile which is just insane. These are fairly rare to be honest and are usually found doing demonstration runs rather then seriously competing.
And so to kick this off here is a video that I took quite a few months ago at Santa Pod, featuring two of the most impressive jet engined drag cars that I have ever seen. I was lucky to see them run in the dark and the noise and power coming off of these vehicles is phenomenal!
Well as the first post onto this sub forum I thought it would be a great opportunity to start up a thread devoted to the noble sport of strapping a chair onto, effectively a big bomb and then race your fellow nutter in a flat out adrenaline fueled quarter mile at a time. As the great Dominic Toretto once said:
“I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I’m free.”
So for myself, I have been racing and competing since I was the age of 8, and I am now 28 so motorsport has been a massive part of my life. Now living in the midlands means that I am central to so many race tracks, and for the purposes of this thread, I actually live only 15mins from the UK's premier drag racing track Santa Pod. So I will be trying to put up as many photos as I can from things I have seen there.
Feel free to contribute your own stuff! And remember....
“Ask any racer. Any real racer. It don’t matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning’s winning.”
What a fucking surprise. Webbers got a chance to catch Vettel and oh, whats this? Another issue in the pit stop costing just enough time so that Vettel will be fine for the end of the race.
The Red Bull situation is absurd, and Christian Horner is a spineless twat.
Austin was exciting. My favorite part was when Maldonado claimed that Williams sabotaged his car for qually. I really hate him!
Would love to see the back of him after all he has come out with recently, as well as his habit of managing to crash into other cars and then blame it on the other drivers.
Mercedes looking strong in the first practice but im sure Vettel is just waiting to lunch into a lap on FP2 that will blow everybody away for another race
I really hate him!
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Here you go mate http://www.santapod.co.uk/calendar.php
european meet would be good ones to get to if you can as it is always heaving with the big teams coming over.
Yeah sounds good mate would be good to finally meet up and have a beer whilst we die from the nitros cancer fumes 😄
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