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Hi all :D

Now that a few other events have been postponed maybe there might be a few of you that might come this weekend. Saturday or Sunday.

It will be a great weekend for all who come :O

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Come on people, this will be a great oppourtunity to see and feel the best in Drag Racing that Australia has to offer. If you haven't experienced a top fuel dragster at full tilt you haven't lived a true revhead life. :whistling:

^^^ As Charlie said..........just don't do what we did last time... standing in the pits directly behind as they fired up and revved after the "quick rebuild" .... I still cant hear properly!

Anna, I've done that before....it's awesome!

But I'm half deaf anyway :D

lol im half deaf too now! ... yeah nothing like your vision blurring from your eyes rattling in your head with tears streaming down your face from the fumes and your throat being stripped everytime you breathe! :):D

The Drags just get everything moving inside. They take off with 6000 + horse power, At 0.9 of a second they are already doing 100km's an hour, the clutch slips and does not fully engage in top gear until about 3/4 track, when the tyres flare up the circumfrence is 3 metres so they only turn roughly 135 times to the line, and then it's all over in about 4.5 - 5 seconds. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD :D




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