Bobby Bennett
Nitro Member
Drag Racing Internet Magazine - Competition Plus.com - 1979 - JOHN FORCE AT OCIR
Dry hops and everything. An El Camino too.
Dry hops and everything. An El Camino too.
Wholly cow I feel 19 again!
If the show was like that today the TV ratings would be through the roof. Instead on we get 5 replays of each run and 1-2 minutes of Blah Balh Blah and then we get to see a new run and very little starting line procedure.
Yea. 19 again, me too. No way would that happen today on so many different levels.
Right on! A drag race isn't just a car staging. It's the whole "run" from startup, burnout, backing up, staging, launch, finishline, chutes, turnoff.
I've e-mailed ESPN at nauseum over the years to tell the director or whoever, they need insets when they do interviews/replays and keep a camera on the track all the time.
Well change the clutch and fuel package back to the way it was. We get the Show and slow them down which brings them back to 1320...talk about killing two birds with one stone!Apparently clutch technology these days is the reason for no dry hops , I remember reading that somewhere .
Apparently clutch technology these days is the reason for no dry hops , I remember reading that somewhere .
Dry hops went away with 2 speeds in nitro cars.
That's a great video. I love how fast he backs up. Do any of you old time So-Cal, JFR fans have any recollection of the band Motley Crue doing a gig at a match race John was running at? I've heard Nikki Sixx talk about it in the past. It obviously happened before Motley got thier record deal and hit the "big time". Had to of been around '79-82? I'd like to hear john's side of this story someday.