NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing by junge1
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Description
This 1000-ft run is so fast that I had to push the shutter button on my little Canon the moment the light turned green because of a slight delay for the camera to react to the shutter, to catch these two in the picture.
The picture was taken at 12:28, in the middle of the day during bright sunshine, yet the exhaust flames are visible. The exhaust temperature at idle is 500F (260C) and at the end of the ~4 second run it is 1796F (960C).
During a typical run the engine can consume as much as 103 litres (22.75 Gal US) of fuel for the warm up, burnout, staging and a 1/4 mile run.
This picture was taken on 15 October 2011,
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Comments (26)
Must be difficult taking pictures of the super fast moving dragsters. Stunning capture. God Bless.
power wroooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmm,vroooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmm
Excellent!!!
Great capture Sig voooooooommmmmmmm is right!!
Fantástica captura, ainda mais em alta velocidade, excelente meu amigo, aplausos (5)
I couldn't react that fast! Super capture.
Ultra COOL shot, brilliant capture! Shame we have no sound ;-) Though, ear plugs would be needed! lol Good shot! Rob
marvelous shot
Very cool capture
Excellent capture, my friend! I'm not sure I could have done anything near as well. The time lag must be a pain in the patootie to work with! Really nicely done.
Excellent shot !
Oh YEAH!!!!!!....Big Fan Here!!...Attend as many as possible every year....Saaaaaweeeeeeeeet Capture!! If interested here's my take at creating a Top Fuel in Bryce 7 under the category Model Building... http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2090094&user_id=218810&np&np
Super shot! (Grew up going to Martin U.S. 131 Dragstrip almost every Sat. Night in my youth .... Late 60's/early 70's .... Don Garlits, Shirley Muldowney, Don Prudhomme and ALL the GREATS) .... 8,000 Horsepower, Nitro Methane MACHINES!
Shining shot.
The last time I had been to one of these was at English Town , NJ in the early seventies. They have gotten a lot faster since then.
Excellent shot!
Fantastic capture! :)
The power and the glory, clear holeshot win for the guy in the left lane?
just think if they go a mile what the gas be lol. i can not do math sorry.
Great shot, incredible speed. Zoom, zoom, zoom. :)
fantastic shot sig...
Outstanding action shot!!
Superb timing. Like this a lot!
Fantastic shot.
Fantastic timing Sig and great results.
spectacular race