Awesome slow-mo video of drag racing (1000 frames oer second)
06-30-2006, 10:58 AM
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Big Block go VROOOM!
Shoud probably be in Car Talk but great find none the less. 
ESPN2 has had that camera on hand two or three other times and I've often wondered if somebody had captured it.
ESPN2 has had that camera on hand two or three other times and I've often wondered if somebody had captured it.
06-30-2006, 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by jmbnova
that is pretty wild... makes you see what kind of torture the tires really go through...
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06-30-2006, 11:41 AM
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Big Block go VROOOM!
Originally Posted by fdl
I read somewhere that the top fuel cars hit 60mph through the first half rotation of their wheel.
06-30-2006, 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Billiam
Don't think so, even if there were zero slippage. The tires are 36" diameter. Do the math and half a roll-out is about 5-1/2 feet. Top Fuel cars are known to hit 100 MPH at 70 feet or so off the line (about 0.9 seconds).
06-30-2006, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Mike97 3.0P
Isn't he implying that there IS slippage and the car isn't going anywhere yet the tires are rotating?
06-30-2006, 03:03 PM
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Creepy guy in the mirror.
To kinda give you a perspective of timing and how fast they are going - it looks slow on tape, but in the last segment you can see the christmas tree light... It is blinking at 60 cycles/sec... And the car is moving a few inches each 1/60th of a second.
06-30-2006, 04:11 PM
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Big Block go VROOOM!
Originally Posted by Mike97 3.0P
Isn't he implying that there IS slippage and the car isn't going anywhere yet the tires are rotating?
06-30-2006, 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Billiam
Clutch aside, the hardest the car could possibly accelerate would be if there was zero tire slippage. What I was saying was that even in that ideal state the math doesn't work out to support what fdl had heard.
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