[Jeff Higgins]

I would encourage anyone who has never seen top fuel and/or funny cars run to go at least once. It is impossible to describe the sensation of having a couple of these go by at wide open throttle. These things have more horsepower in one cylinder than any single F1, Nextel Cup, or Le Mans LMP1 car has in the entire motor. They will burn almost 8 gallons of 85% nitro / 15% methanol in one burnout and quarter mile run. Seen the Blue Angels of Thunderbirds perform? One top fuel car at full melt will drown out all eight of them in a full afterburner low fly-by. No kidding. It's hard to overstate how loud they are; I wear foam ear plugs under full ear muffs and I still whince when they go by. Your whole body just shakes from it; it's like being in a low-level earthquake. Definitely a must-see, at least once in your life.