My son and I would go to Englishtown Raceway Park for the drags every year, we would go on Friday for qualifying, very few fans, drivers and mechs very accessible.
One our first trip we went directly to the pits and watched a top fuel team prep the car. We were only 3 feet off the rear tires (no ropes on Friday)
and they started that bitch up, my 12 year old son is grinning ear to ear...then the mech nails the throttle and it knocked him to his knees.
We jumped back and got upwind because the nitro burns the crap out of you eyes and lungs. Could barely see for a few minutes.
Sadly Raceway Park is no longer.
Regards,
barts
One our first trip we went directly to the pits and watched a top fuel team prep the car. We were only 3 feet off the rear tires (no ropes on Friday)
and they started that bitch up, my 12 year old son is grinning ear to ear...then the mech nails the throttle and it knocked him to his knees.
We jumped back and got upwind because the nitro burns the crap out of you eyes and lungs. Could barely see for a few minutes.
Sadly Raceway Park is no longer.
Regards,
barts