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Originally Posted by Hotwatermusic
That's awesome power to behold--for 4.87 seconds. But it's really about as close to real driving as playing Gran Tourismo on Playstation. Drag racing is exceedingly lame. Sorry, but it is. It's an amusement park ride, it's not driving. It's the grown-up equavalent to those toy cars you pull the plastic rip-cord through and watch race across your kitchen. "Wow, look at it go!!" Drag racing is everything that is wrong with the American motor sports mentality. "Let's make this go really fast--in a straight line--and damn eveything else." It's the reason Ford is still putting live axles on their "sports" cars. No-one on this group, and I dare someone to tell me I'm wrong, would rather go fast in a dragster car like that over taking a GT3 on an unbridled drive through a curvy country road. Now, over at the Mustang forum, yeah, give em a drag strip and a can of Skull and they'll be happy all day long--all the better to keep their ****ty 5.0's off my roads. Cause my life is too short to not get to take a corner at speed...
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Nice opinion there comrade.
Maybe everybody should just do the same thing, as long as that thing is approved by you.
NHRA Top Fuel is one of the last lightly regulated motor sports. 500ci engine, no more than 90% Nitromethane, and that's about it. The rest of the rules are safety regs. No goofy changing the rules mid season, or adding weight to slow down a good team. Over the years, it's been HP, chassis design, tire size/composition, and most recently clutch design and setup that determine ultimate performance. The driver still needs to cut a good light, keep the tires from going up in smoke at half track (usually at over 250mph by that point), and keep it from following the groove so much that he ends up in ball of buring fuel. Unless you've been to a recent NHRA top event, you really can't comprehend the power and excitement of seeing these cars go off side-by-side.
I also like ALMS, SCORE, WEROCK, FIA Rally, CORE, AMA flattrack, and even the ocassional air race or boat drag. I'ver driven lots of top level sports cars but not a GT3, and have never driven a fueler, (for one thing you need to be licensed), so I can't say for sure which I would like better, but I do think I'd love every second of either.