VIDEO: Drag racing tires in slow-mo
We always assumed that every component of a top-fuel dragster or funny car undergoes an unthinkable amount of stress on each run, but this high-quality, slow-motion video shows exactly how a drag racing tire reacts to the extreme amount of abuse it takes each time down the track. As substantial as these rubber doughnuts are, the power of a dragster's motor has no trouble making them quiver like Jell-O.
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Anand Sharma 2:51PM (7/09/2006)
wow that is very interesting. its still amazing how they can take that much power (~5000hp)
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Tim UF 2:52PM (7/09/2006)
That is really cool to see
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epp_b 3:44PM (7/09/2006)
That's quite fascinating!
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xbird 5:43PM (7/09/2006)
Ha, Mega-mo, what a corny name for a high-speed camera shot. In Europe, television announcers would do something as impractically foreign as actually telling you what the frame rate was as if you were intelligent enough to understand.
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AutoFan 5:53PM (7/09/2006)
xbird...they did say it was 1000 frames per second right at the beginning there.
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naggs 9:46PM (7/09/2006)
wow he got told, lemme know when you get your foot out of your mouth
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sam 9:53PM (7/09/2006)
funny; i don't see any toyodas.
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PJ 4:08AM (7/10/2006)
Right, since the mostly red-state NHRA crowd is *so* eager to get Toyota-badged funny cars on the circuit. And since *any* dragger has anything in common with its street counterpart to begin with.
Awesome video. Makes the power on hand hit home when you see steel-belted radials buckle like rubber balloons.
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autonews 5:58AM (7/10/2006)
Super video-clip!
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DJA 10:39AM (7/11/2006)
What is amazing is the fact that those motors usually stay intact. Except for a bomb, what else that size can generate that much raw power? The word "awesome" applies.
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