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Old Guy Rookie
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What about it? FYI, the pilot of the Whiskey River II (Jeff Gregory) ran into the rocks at this year's event a couple of weeks ago. He's mostly fine and is due to go into surgery for his back within the hour.
Old Guy Rookie
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The season opens and closes here in Phoenix every year, (plus the two events at Lake Havasu,) and I think most everyone here knows about them. Realize, that "staging" is different and they're not starting from dead stop like the cars do, so their recorded ET is faster. If you're interested in other photos, I have a couple of albums on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/107442457@N08/
rckymtn3
Nitro Member
Drag Boats? If you haven't seen them, it's well worth the effort. The Fuel classes are very small in number of entries, but still, worth at least one road trip just to check that Nitro box off. They're a lot less forgiving than cars when it comes to being out of shape or parts breakage in the drive train or steering. Scary sport, but quite an eyeful. Look up Lucas Oil Drag Boat Series and see if they come close enough to you to go see. There's independent races as well. Coming to Texas for the first time back in the mid 2000's gave me the first taste, and I loved it. They televise them on MAVTV and very rarely on other channels if you can't make it to the water.
rckymtn3
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Just to add to Chris's comment Mike:
The transfer of energy is a lot more efficient as well. Spinning a prop in water gets you instant results, and hydros are barely touching the water at those speeds, so almost no friction as it's more like a flat skipping rock rather than a "boat", where as FC and Dragsters have a lot of flex in the system, from the chassis to the tires, that tends to absorb some energy before it gets to the ground. The big boats go 1000' like their land based sisters do. So combine that with what Chris said about the "rolling" starts, and you get jaw dropping numbers.
Chris, GREAT shots.
