Top Fuel dragsters are the quickest accelerating vehicles on the face of the earth, finishing 1,000 feet (305 m) runs in 3.7 seconds at speeds of 335 mph (539 km/h).
The energy that these incredible machines can generate measures ~3.2 on the Richter scale, as their launch acceleration approaches 8Gs.
Somebody had the fortune of pointing a very capable camera at his car as it charged down the track, and did so while filming in a gazillion frames per second.
That’s why we can now see the tremendous pressure exerted on these vehicles’ bodies, the heat-like rhythm of the flames coming out of the exhausts, the strain put on the huge rear tires, and the very limited contact those front wheels make with the ground.
