On 3/28/06, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. You have it wrong. I've heard both of those, and they don't come > close to the king. The most incredible sound in motorsports is an > 8-liter, 8000 horsepower, nitromethane-burinng, supercharged drag > racing engine at full tilt. That much air moving that fast creates a > sound unlike anything you have ever heard. Of course you shouldn't > listen without ear plugs. The exhaust note lays right under the banshee > scream of the intake, and it is wide, deep, and awesome. You can feel > it in the ground, and in anything you touch. Of course, if you're > standing near the starting line, you can also feel the pavement move > when the cars accelerate at an off-the-mark rate of about 100 feet per > second. Speeds at the 1/8th mile mark are now around 270 mph. Zero to > 200 comes in somewhere between two and three seconds. Unfortunately, > television chooses not to broadcast the real sound of any motorsports. > Unfortunate, to say the least. > Paul
I've never been to a drag race, Paul, but I bet you're right. Even watching them on TV, one gets the feeling that those top fuel dragsters must sound like each cylinder firing is like a shotgun going off - multiply that by the number of cylinders firing each second at full rev! It must be awesome. I'd love to see a drag race, especially at night... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
