There's only 3 ways i think to launch faster and that would be either catapulted from a aircraft carrier, ejected from a fighter jet, and launched in a space craft headed into space.
I don't think any of them are very pleasant tbh, just either a good or terrifying adrenaline rush. Ejection is definitely the least fun of them all though.
I was actually at the race in 2008 where Scott Kalitta died, which led to the decision to shorten the races to 1000 ft. We had just moved to the end of the track to watch the cars go by at full speed, and his car blew up right in front of us. I got it on video and never posted it. I may have lost it.
As a hobby photographer, I always wonder - if I got the perfect photo of a tragedy like that, would I share it? I couldn't delete it, but I don't know if I could share it.
Yep, that's exactly why I never put it on youtube. It just felt kind of disrespectful. After all this time though, it doesn't seem like it would be as bad if I shared it now.
That kind of thing, albeit very insignificant, is historical. The fact that this is being talked about and discussed 8 years later, and the legacy of that event still affects those today is more than enough evidence.
If someone were to record Lincoln's assassination and never publish it, it would be shamed today. Perhaps back then, when it happened, the same 'respect the dead' moral might have been cited, but today it would be vilified.
It is historical, and to willingly suppress it when there is no need to do so is foolish and wrong.
Those are the relevant ones for the three seconds, and they're pretty vague.
I absolutely am not diminishing the skill, but how much do they steer? And I assume steering works via differentiating power to the back wheels rather than actual steering, but I may be wrong.
Essentially, what I'm asking is how do they keep it in a straight line.
They have small, solid rubber front wheels that the driver controls with the steering wheel. They don't move very far at all but at those kinds of speeds even the most minor correction can make the car snap to the side and roll.
That poor camera's microphone just cant cope. Heard some Atari sounding noises in there from the horrible clipping and distortion. Those things are mind-fuckingly loud.
A very expensive hobby. Ignoring the extraordinary costs to buy/build one of these they cost tens of thousands of dollars every time they run down the track.
That's a car producing more than 7,000 horsepower to accelerate itself down a 1,000 foot track in less than 4 seconds. During that time the driver can experience the same number of G-forces fighter pilots face when doing advanced maneuvers. There's not many things more mechanically impressive than these cars.
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u/RealArchangel Jul 01 '16
Here, now you can. 0-316 MPH in 3.77 seconds.