As I mentioned in a previous post, I attended the Friday qualifying day of last weekend's NHRA national event at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet. To illustrate how hard a Top Fuel car launches, they put one heads-up against a Pontiac G6 GTP.

The driver of the T/F car stayed on the throttle for 1.2 seconds then coasted the rest of the way. The G6 was under full power the whole time. Result: T/F 11.6 @ 88 MPH, G6 16.2 @ 88 MPH. Here's the video I shot from the stands with my digicam. If you watch it a few times, you can see how the T/F car was setup somewhat soft right of the line then looks like a rifle shot after it moves about a car length.

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http://www.luminousmatters.com/misc-..._pontiacg6.avi

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http://www.luminousmatters.com/misc-..._pontiacg6.mp4

 

Cool vid!

Isn't it like 6-8 g's they feel on takeoff and then a bunch of negative g's when the parachutes and brakes are applied? Put that on the list of things I'll never be able to do.

 

That is pretty amazing.

 

Last I heard, they pull a little over 5 G's at launch (0-100 MPH in 0.8 seconds)which falls off to about 1.5 - 2 G's at the line followed by about -4 G's when the chute hits.

 

That was like Flash lightning vs a kid walking with crutches in a race.

 

weak

 

impressive. i like the announcer's commentary "you can go no Dave".

 

Top fuel dragsters are doing the 0-100 part of the 1/4 mile in around 0.74 seconds.

 

You can go now dave. LOL

 

sweet

 

Sweet vid. Thanks.

 

lol. that was a good video