This was just posted on a Drag Racing facebook page...

It got a bunch of people's panties in a knot. Comments like:

"You don't have to be some rich millionaire trust fund baby because that's the only way you're going to race rally"

"Drag racing u go 328 miles per hour. Thats balls"

" I'd like to see a rally driver handle a Pro Mod that decides it would rather face the wall at 220 mph at the 1/8"

Along with plenty more butt-hurt comments about how the car in the picture was about to be wrecked, etc. haha

The funny thing is, that picture is just some old Ford driving up a hill.

Needs the picture of the Escort ditch-hooking the wall.

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

Good idea, I just posted that picture in the comments section.

TTIWWL

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Just come in there like "They call me....El Hoonidor?"

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Why do you even need brakes? Are you some sort of pansy or something?

All the guys on there screaming about drag drivers having skill going xxx mph in a x second quarter mile just need to ask themselves one thing...

Would they do it on Pike's Peak?

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Kirk Coughlin
Woodbury, MN and River Falls, WI

Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.

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darkknight9
All the guys on there screaming about drag drivers having skill going xxx mph in a x second quarter mile just need to ask themselves one thing...

Would they do it on Pike's Peak?

I won't doubt that there is skill required in cutting a good light and pedaling a car off the line. There's skill required in any motorsport.

But hell, once you're moving, you're just along for the ride. Drag racing is fascinating for the scientific mind if you want to quickly see the results of different shift points or launch methods, but it's not very entertaining.

I'll just leave this here...

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

Well there is a certain amount of skill and bravery involved when driving on four wheels with a metal shell and cage around you, be it on a straight or around corners........but then there is skill and bravery involved when driving the same, but without the protection and with only two wheels.....

Being a four wheeled car driver I know my place in the bragging rights, and feel blessed just to have witnessed the level at which these chaps perform.

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Disappointingly not yet a Jackass

I grew up drag racing and street racing...There's definitely skill involved. But I watch the faster rally cars(especially the in-car stuff) and there's no comparison.

As mentioned, the main skills with drag racing are cutting a light and keeping it straight...There's more stuff that comes in to play with bracket racing, but honestly, bracket racing is the dumbest form of "racing" out there....Slow your car down to win the race....What's the point in that?

I think the real skill in Drag Racing is in the tuning. With the higher-end, small-tire(and drag radial) cars we're all running now, there's a million variables that need to be perfectly accounted for. All sorts of suspension settings, tire pressure, timing map, boost curve or nitrous timer/progressive, even the torque converter. I know a ton of tuning goes in to rally cars...But it seems like if you're off, you can still cope...With the faster drag cars, if you're off you blow the tires off or put it on the bumper and it's all over.

Danny, no kidding. The MotoGP, Isle of Man, etc stuff is absolutely insane. I love bikes, but I'm just not all that interested in giving that stuff a shot.

My step-dad used to race a 1000cc Honda with NESBA around the Midwest. It was fun to go and watch, and I'd bring my dirtbike and cruise around, but that's about it for me. He was in the novice classes and it was pretty intense...The "Advanced" class guys would go out there and make everyone else look like they were racing Huffys.








After a few crashes on the track, one or two in the backroads of the Appalachian mountains, and being rear-ended HARD by a woman in California....He sold the bikes and bought a car to play with.

Yeah, it is at a different level with those bikers.
I had a big road bike for a while but the odd time I wound it up I was all to aware of just how vunerable I was to things outwith my control so I just sold it on after a short time.

For me the thought and study I put in which then leads to the engineering modifications I carry out to my cars is just as rewading as driving them. And I am sure that is the same for many others too.
But I know and happily accept there will always be others that commit and accomplish more than me, so can't see the point in people bragging as there will always be someone better to take them down a notch or two.

But going back to the bikers I can't quite fathom them out. To be racing at the speeds they do on those roads takes a switched on brain to react and control those machines, no doubt after much technical setup. I'm just not sure how such a switched on brain could manage to set aside the risks involved with what they do if something untoward were to happen.
It sure makes for great entertainment though.

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Disappointingly not yet a Jackass

I've done a lot of riding on dirtbikes, harleys, and street-riding crotch rockets...To me, it never felt as bad as it looks to spectators. I'd ride a wheelie for 1000' and my friends thought I was nuts...But it felt 'normal' and I was always in control. Cars are the same way for me.

So, I watch the Isle of Man stuff, and it seems so insane...But I'm sure when those riders are experiencing it first-hand on the bikes, it doesn't feel as bad as it looks.

And yeah, I ride Harleys in the summer and typically have one or two CLOSE calls with cars in traffic. People are oblivious to their surroundings, especially these days with everyone texting and checking facebook non-stopped.

I try to limit my riding to quieter times of the day when there's less traffic...Or just head out the the less populated areas.

I prefer the metal shell, the cage, harnesses, and all that other crazy stuff.