www.motorsport.com
They also have some other pretty cool videos from Lake Havasu. Tony and Leah have been spending a lot of time this year hanging out at her Lake Havasu house and spending a lot of time on the water. I haven't seen or talked to them because I have been traveling so much this year slot car racing that I haven't been to Havasu since I spent Christmas there last year. But, my buddy that works on Bode's funny car has a vacation house there and he has hung out with them a few times this year.
do they hate each other and need to do things separately or what.
He ran a great lap.
It does have a little similarity to Xfinity being it's a sportsman class not a professional class and the cars don't have as much power or run as fast as the pro nitro cars. A lot of the pro nitro drivers come from the alcohol ranks just like the Xfinity drivers do before they go to a cup car. A lot of drivers choose to stay in the alcohol cars because it is a little cheaper and a lot less maintenance than the nitro cars. The nitro motor is rebuilt after each pass but with the alcohol motor you can just do a leak down test on each cylinder and check the rod and main bearings and readjust the valve train. The alcohol motors turn around 11,500 rpm and make around 4000 horsepower and the alcohol funny cars run around 5.40s at 270 mph. The alcohol dragsters can run in the 5-teens at 280 mph vs the nitro cars that turn around 8500 to 9500 rpm and make 11,000 horsepower and produce a lot more torque. The nitro funny cars run in the low 3.80s at close to 340 mph and the top fuel dragsters run in the 3.60s at close to 340 mph. I think the top fuel dragster record is around 3.62 and the funny car record is around 3.79. I realize that this a little more in depth than you ask for but here is a little YouTube video on the physics of the top fuel dragster that kind of shows its comparison to a streetcar that you might enjoy.
