A nitro run has a decibel level that is so intense, that it makes your internal organs quiver from the sound waves. What a rush.

I love that the crowd cheers after every run. They do it because the experience is awesome.

Guaranteed if your not ready for it it’ll blow you off your seat. Literally and figuratively......freakin AMAZING!

Seattle is where John Force got his 150th win in Funny Car and Austin Prock got his first ever career win in Top Fuel. What an awesome weekend it was for John Force Racing

Thanks YT for recommending the video after 13 years

Nothing like being there in person tv doesn’t do it justice

GOD I Love the sights sound's smell and feel of a top fuel Drag Racing weekend🏁

Ahhhh the good old days when the track was full of good people. Now it looks like a ghost town.

And of course, there’s that smile that says it all. Now you know why we’re here.

Just Absolutely Enjoy Bringing New Folks To The Drag Races ,Great Fun ,Nothing Else Like It !!!

I am motorsports photographer that often shoots nitro cars, IMO this is the best place to watch from because the clutch locks up right around this point and they are really working the engines hard.

You never forget your first time

Hurts my ears to listen Shannon, It burns my eyes to see.........

I love it! I like when you right up at the staging line and they leave from the tree and you can feel the percussion on your body. Lol.

Unlike anything else you will ever experience - fantastic

People's reactions are priceless. If you never went to to an event you will not be disappointed it's so awesome the feeling you get when they launch. Undiscribable so much fun

I'll always remember my first attendance to the NHRA Northwest Nationals. I got to watch legends like John Force, Joe Amato, Eddie Hill, Warren Johnson, Bob Glidden, Ricky Smith, Darrel Alderman, Connie Kalitta, and Angelle Seeling in her early years of Pro Stock Motorcycles. Been attending races throughout the years and sitting in the exact same seats every year. Sadly, 2023 was my last year attending as a decline in health will be keeping me away from from the 2024 event at Pacific Raceways (I don't hold up very well in the Summer heat on those bleachers and suffer from annoying dizzy spells). Neverthess, I do hope to see 'yall at the annual Goodguys Rod and Custom Car Show in Puyallup... can't miss that one!! 👍😁👍

Many years ago while at Darlington drag way, I was right up on the starting line within 50 feet of the cars. I have been to many events but never that close to the cars. When they took off, it scared me that my inside were vibrating. What a rush.

Just from the exhaust gasses being expelled from the engine creates roughly 450lbs of downforce! Those machines are amazing!!!

2 nitro drag cars once recorded 2.3 on the Richter Scale!! That's a small earthquake!!!

I remember the first time I saw one of those races like that that s*** goes right through your body when they pass bye wild as hell

Nothing like it for sure. It doesn’t just affect the sense of hearing but the sound resonates through your whole body. It’s unbelievable to say the least.😳😮🤭

Tractor pulling has to be one of the loudest Motorsports in the world. Drag racing is the loudest and tractor pulls are the second loudest.

Best Sound Capture on KZfaq. As best one can.

Some excellent camera work right there

She seriously has no ear protection? WOW! No way in hell. I’m surprised her ears aren’t bleeding! Easily the loudest thing I’ve ever heard. Growing up and living an hour from Indy has afforded me the ability to see some incredible drag racing through the years. I was lucky enough to see Big Daddy, Shirley Muldowney, The Snake and many others up through John Force and then some. Back when I was a kid and each team would not only pass out 8x10 posters of their funny car or top fuel car in action, the drivers would sign them for you. You name the famous driver and I very likely had their autograph on their small poster. When I went to college, my mother took it upon herself to “get rid of clutter” in my room. She thought they were all just printed autographs and they got circle filed. Yeah...it took many years to get over that. MOM’S! LOL!!!

Welcome to the world of nitromethane drag racing

good resolution for a video from before 2010.

It's nitro when you look down and your clothes are rippling from the sound waves😵😛😬

The one event I've been to that has outdone this was the launch of Apollo 11 at the Cape back in '69. THAT was something to live through!

I dont care how tough you think you are you will get a reaction the first time.

I remember when I was a spectator of drag racing a long time ago, I really wanted to be a drag racer. And then I realised if I became a racer, I'd miss the experience of being a spectator. So I decided to remain a spectator, and I never lost a race :)

The sound of top fuel had changed over the decades from 159 mph now to 335 mph back then it was noisey now its insane

That side of the track at SIR is definitely more intense for sound and feel.

Please tell me you had ear protection on that kid...

Shannon's make-up remover tip : just a dab of Nitro Methane on a cotton ball Also turns grown men into little boys who want to play with cars

I so remember bringing my wife and sons to Island Dragoway back in the seventies when Don Garlits was running his Swamp Rat. The effect on my wife was similar but she fell over.

Another great reaction video but I just hope that they at least had ear protection for their child.

I still say that to experience the full effect, you have to be at or near the starting line. I've seen "first timers" curl up into the fetal position from that sound.

Lol....the sound of massive power.

God bless 💕 you girl. This I's living

that looked like English Town, NJ...?

I have to go see this 😃

yes they are f ing loud and they are fing fast

Baptism by nitro!

Skip to 1:40

A team from Ypsi I hear. Right on. Awesome reaction!

She was OG w/it...

And that's what 10,000HP sounds like...

Many years ago I ran some numbers on a top fuel car, and the power just in the exhaust, and showed them to some Top Fuel guys I knew, like Wes Cerny and others and the numbers were staggering, imagine dropping a cylinder on a car and the change in Exhaust is enough to blow the car sideways and changes a lane, I asked them why they don't use the obvious massive thrust in exhaust to push the car forward instead of sideways, well you can see they are laying the pipes back....but NHRA put an angle limit on them.....

They never know the burnout is chump change compared to the full pull 😁

Those cars are so loud, that even watching from the stands that you can yell at the top of your lungs, and you will not hear yourself when the cars go racing by!! Oh yea, and the ground literally SHAKES!!!

Hearing protection people

Now thats 100% AMERICAN!

what did the kid next to her think I wonder?

1st time i went back in the 90s...i told people it was like there was a sheet of plywood in front of me and someone hit it with a sledge hammer..and i loved the pits. .id stand there n hold my breath long as i could snot runnin out my nose when they first cranked them..i miss it sooo much...Memphis sux for losing the mid south nationals

I was there!

Nitro is a full contact sport that you not only watch but feel every second of the run ..must see it 8n real life to live the full experiance ..there's bo sport more violant and with precision than nitro

Please tell me you protected the little kid’s ears. This is not a joke - a kid is especially vulnerable to catastrophic hearing loss, and no amount of coolness about an activity changes that. Don’t let something you’ll regret the rest of your life and hers happen.

How can those engines keep intact to do what they do!? If anything its practicaly a nuke going off but yet restraining itself withn those 8 cylinders.

get that baby some ear plugs

Nitro means you are watching a bomb on wheels. In ye olden days I remember 2 guys in balaclavas with machetes ready to cut the seatbelts at the start line. Cool as fuck and as real and extreme as it gets.

She's a keeper.

Nitro will get your adrenaline pumping....

Very good quality for 2008

Imagine a large explosion. Now expand that loud explosion for about 4 seconds over 1/4 of a mile.

dont turn your head

Every stands nobody sees

Yes, indeed, nitro fueled dragsters can be a test of your bone density. X-ray not needed.

Love it want to take my wife and let her experience the thunder. Gator national's best place on earth.

Who the hell is Shannon

The kids deff now

😢 gone from E-Town

Now you kid will forever have to sit in the front of the class

Wives vibrating in the stands are hot

Sure beats golf!!! Lolol

Why am I deaf, mommy?

Looks like Camera persons first time to. Moving around way too much. Lol good job

You better go there in diapers! Forkin'hell

You should’ve provided that sweet girl with some EAR PROTECTION!

Did you say that L O U D? Lol! 😁

The hair will be standing up on the back of her neck for a month of Sundays lol

i wonder if that has ever made anyone puke.

Those dragsters sound like one of my farts !

Good place for hearing protection. I hope that little kid had ear plugs in. Huh? What did you say?

I hope they had ear protection on the kid.

Go to Isle of Man

$10,000.00 a run

Yea how long before this is banned

Effing zoomies

Kid Should have EAR PLUGS ON

dotn

Block her view and yap insistently....

First haha

IDK, kind of a dick move to not give them ear protection at least for the first race. Then they can decide for themselves if they want to keep them on. You don't need to go deaf to experience the intense sound/feeling.

Does the camera man have parkinsons?

YAWN

Molar made most of these possible Mopar forever

long and boring

So stupid that people don’t wear ear plugs.