I like football. I like the spectacle of it, I like the speed of the game, and I like the amazing athletic feats performed by the player but I am no expert. I have friends who REALLY like football. They know the Xs and Os. They talk about stuff like the “2 gap”, different insane offensive schemes and defensive strategy. They see the game different than I do because they are watching with an analytical eye. When I watch drag racing with those guys, the script gets flipped. They’re all in for the header flames, the noise, and the speed. I like looking at the runs on a different and perhaps deeper level. Whatever floats our boats, right? There’s nothing wrong with either approach and frankly we can all teach each other something. I mention this because I have watched the video below about elevendy hundred times in a tow as I type this and I just cannot get enough of it.

Why? For anyone that’s been around the drag game long enough you know how incredible it is that this car launches perfectly clean and straight on the bars and just stays there the whole way down the track. There was enough slippage in the tire that it didn’t dead hook, smash the bars and shake. The wheelie bars are adjusted perfectly even because the car was not driven one direction or the other when it was heading down track with the front end in the air. The driver didn’t panic or lift and hammered the car all the way through the traps looking up at the tops of the trees and the whole thing ended without drama. There are like a thousand things that have to go perfectly for the video to look like this and on this run they all lined up. Maybe I am the weird one and you won’t find this video hypnotic enough to watch it a bunch of times, but I sure did.

The video was taken at Houston Motorsports Park and the car looks to be a Top Sportsman entry or something along those lines. The motor sounds like a big inch nitrous piece with it’s high compression poppy idle. You can tell the driver is spraying the wee out of the car because of the cones of flame licking out of the header collectors. You can hear the announcer say, “AHHHH No Clocks…what happened?” Because of that, the best we can do is to look at the video timer and guess that this is a low four second eight mile door slammer and that’s tripping the lights on the rear tires!

This run is from a couple years back, but we’re putting it in our favorites and watching it daily during the winter. It’ll knock the edge off of these cold days for sure!

Thanks to Jay Mazotta for the tip!

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