drag strip last summer

[Daniel2000]

took those on a small local drag strip last summer

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh26/Daniel2000/cars/_MG_1076.jpg

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh26/Daniel2000/cars/_MG_1734.jpg

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh26/Daniel2000/cars/_MG_1149.jpg

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh26/Daniel2000/cars/_MG_1330.jpg

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh26/Daniel2000/cars/_MG_1377.jpg

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh26/Daniel2000/cars/_MG_1390.jpg

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh26/Daniel2000/cars/_MG_1673.jpg

[Hartness53]

Neat pics. Reminds me of my local track. I like that last cutlass shot. Christian

[Daniel2000]

thanks :)

[jimken61]

You have some pretty good shots here Daniel. Looks like he is going to smack the wall in the first shot, or he came dang close, bet both of yall had the pucker thing going on... LOL.

[Daniel2000]

yep
in the first one he came so close to the wall, he rolled over the 100' reflector for the laser chronobox at that distance, he came around a feet from the wall, he would have hit it about 15' behind me if he hadn't regained control
they found out after the run, that at the burnout to warm up the tires, a small hose from the radiator to the overflow container had unplug itself and spilled some on the track on the right side, so when he floored it, the right tire lost traction and the left tire having full traction pushed it toward the wall, scary moment for the driver I suppose... ;)

[kelly andersen]

Heres a link to some shots I took at the Byron dragway power wheel stand contest last fall. its on speed channel every once in awhile. http://forums.dragcoverage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?board=track;action=display;num=1223285832

[sharrington]

is that a rabbit?

[Jim M]

yep
in the first one he came so close to the wall, he rolled over the 100' reflector for the laser chronobox at that distance, he came around a feet from the wall, he would have hit it about 15' behind me if he hadn't regained control
they found out after the run, that at the burnout to warm up the tires, a small hose from the radiator to the overflow container had unplug itself and spilled some on the track on the right side, so when he floored it, the right tire lost traction and the left tire having full traction pushed it toward the wall, scary moment for the driver I suppose... ;)
It's times like that when you learn what your own rate of acceleration can be.

[Daniel2000]

is that a rabbit?
wich one?
if you're talking about the fourth from top (red one with black hood)
It's a Hyundai Pony with 455ci V8 engine :)

[sharrington]

wow that looks like a mk1 rabbit

[kelly andersen]

Thats a dodge omni or horizon or whatever they called those cracker boxes. LOL

[BrettRio]

Damn those are some cool shots!

[scottpow]

very nice. I guess the one shot is of a "hot rod"!

[Daniel2000]

Thats a dodge omni or horizon or whatever they called those cracker boxes. LOL

nope
Hyundai Pony
like this one but way modified
check it up in wikipedia
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Hyundai_Pony.jpg

[StarJack]

I really like the timing of the shots in 2 & 3.

[Daniel2000]

thanks
shooting in burst mode helped a lot.. ;)

[Cole_Schmitt]

I LOVE the one of the car blowing up and the guy on fire. Good job and keep it up!

[Daniel2000]

thanks
when the car exploded, the trunk lid flew something like 50' up in the air and landed a hundred feet from the car, at about a maximum a 20 or even 15 feet from a car parked in the pits
that was not supposed to happen and I guess someone got really nervous about his car...