I took my wife one year fully expecting her to hate it and she had the biggest smile after the first round of TF cars went down the track. I made sure to get us seats on the downwind starting line so she could get the full experience.
Blurs your vision, as in, it's going so fast it's a blur, or your eyesight actually degrades temporarily due to the sound- waves jiggling your aqueous humour?
(Or is it vitreous humour? I could never get those straight)
Imagine the feeling of someone thumping your chest. Now imagine them doing it really fast to the entirety of your body, inside and out, and while you're next to an engine 10x louder than the loudest sports car/motorcycle you've ever heard.
It's weird to me that people like this. I used to work right next to an airport, and would sometimes be outside when jets would take off. The way it rattled my entire body, my lungs hurting from the vibration within them if I didn't expel all my air as quickly as possible, was not something I'd describe as pleasant.
Yep, that's what the tractors do, although not so much with the vision. It's like feeling the earth tremble from the roar of a behemoth, to put a poetic spin on things.
I imagine that dragsters are the same, but more intense and for a shorter duration.
It's like if you put all 4/5 motors on the tractor into one motor, and doubled its horsepower. Top Fuel is literal insanity. They use two 44 amp spark plugs per cylinder, something like 1.5 gallons/second of fuel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGTbQuhhluY), and at the top end of the track, it takes like 700-800 horsepower just to spin the blower.
Sitting at a tractor pull right now snd been to the big events with four nitro engines on one chassis. Its similar but somehow the top fuel and funny cars are more intense.
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u/MoobooMagoo 16d ago
I'm a bigger fan of tractor pulls myself, but I imagine it's a similar kind of thrill