Drag Racing at the Bend

piranha-bro2

piranha-bro2

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I've got a bit of a fixation about top fuel drag racing. They are just so insanely over the top and the times and speeds belie belief. Getting to witness a meeting is on my bucket list.

They've just had the Oz champs at The Bend and a top fueller set a new Australian record that's right up there with the best the US has to offer ... ran 3.6 and 332mph. I didn't know we had racers here at that level.
 
piranha-bro2 said:
I've got a bit of a fixation about top fuel drag racing. They are just so insanely over the top and the times and speeds belie belief. Getting to witness a meeting is on my bucket list.

They've just had the Oz champs at The Bend and a top fueller set a new Australian record that's right up there with the best the US has to offer ... ran 3.6 and 332mph. I didn't know we had racers here at that level.
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I was at the "New Near Nitro " weekend at Willowbank raceway Qld about 6 weeks ago. Same team ran 3.78 @ 524 kph over 1000 ft in a side by side run final race of the night. If you ever get the opportunity to see Top Fuel drags live it will just blow you away. Nothing like it on the planet.
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Better not comment re that link. Bloody annoying, leave it there. I haven't seen these run, but I definitely have heard and felt them. My first experience was in 1975, I was staying in Surfes Paradise on a 6-week around bike trip, and there were 2 Funny Cars parked at the petrol station on the corner opposite the old bird watcher pub. They would start them a couple of times a day to advertise the coming event at the now long-gone Surfer Drag track. The sound was incredible, but the pressure waves going right through your chest were nuts. Decades later, while camping at The Barry, the Top Fuelers were running there approximately a kilometre away. Earth Shattering. Right up there with the coming F35 flyover. I love my big sounds.
 
BlackJota said:
I was at the "New Near Nitro " weekend at Willowbank raceway Qld about 6 weeks ago. Same team ran 3.78 @ 524 kph over 1000 ft in a side by side run final race of the night. If you ever get the opportunity to see Top Fuel drags live it will just blow you away. Nothing like it on the planet.
Hopefully this link works.


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As per the FB link doesn't work. Any other mode of getting info?
 
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