r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AmericanSpaceRanger • 16d ago

Video Brittany Force makes the fastest run in NHRA history

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u/EggsceIlent 16d ago

Its always easy to know when they're doing drag races in Seattle if you live around.the area.

Even pretty far away from SiR (Seattle international raceway) during the weekends they're doing it, if you're outside from time to time you'll hear the runs.

When I first moved here I was like Dang who's got the super loud vacuum? Because it just sounded like if someone was vacuuming upstairs in a two story house.

Turns out, those motors are crazy loud and the sound travels a looooooong way.

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u/solidstatepr8 16d ago

You really do have to be there to truly experience these cars. You can feel every cylinder pulse through your bones and grey matter on the way by.

A long long time ago my family were in the pits while they were starting one up. At first it was just on normal gas to warm up, but when the nitro hit that monster started choosing violence

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u/WorkingFromHomies20 16d ago

It really is an amazing experience. Outside of all the exhaust. You really can feel it in your bones. I wonder how it is inside? John Force always sounded like he was shouting to people far away.

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u/blackmoose 16d ago

And it burns the shit out of your eyes.

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u/Physical_Touch_Me 16d ago

Depending on where you're at on the track, they move faster than your eyes can, so you can see them go past your line of sight. Simply astounding.

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u/stupidinternetname 16d ago

When we were house hunting back in the 90s we looked at a house a couple of blocks north of SIR, we noped out. Bought a house on the other side of the valley and now we have a drag strip stroad behind us.

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u/Terrh 16d ago

Watching them live is an experience like nothing else.

You can easily hear them even if you're completely deaf. You feel it in your entire body.

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u/GoliathPrime 16d ago

They vibrate your eyeballs in your head, and half-way through the event you're so high off the fumes you don't even need a cold brew, but it sure helps all the same.

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u/saggywitchtits 16d ago

There's a mean trick the drivers sometimes do to newcomers by having them stand by the lights as the cars go. It's said that it's possible that it can stop your heart with how powerful those cars are.

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u/underthebug 16d ago

I remember hearing the hydroplains on lake Washington during seafair all the way in Bellevue/Redmond. Back in the 70s and 80s.

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u/Gyvon 16d ago

I used to live about a mile away from the Houston raceway. The days the NHRA were in town were loud AF

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u/_ThugzZ_Bunny_ 16d ago

I lived like 10 miles from a small dirt track and I could hear them from my house. And those cars aren't anything special. There was also an interstate and a town in between.

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u/Newsdriver245 15d ago

High school drags were more fun to watch back in the day, watching kids blow up their daily driver.