What's your favorite Drag Racing "Slang" term?

[wireguy]

I've seen this on t-shirts at the races........"WHAT CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG

IN FOUR SECONDS!"........Well take a breath and apply it to FOUR WIDE.........

............Think about it!!!

 

[d'kid]

Pebbles, Pulp, & Chef vs Big June

and my job description as a 'track rat'...
"GOPHER" (go-fer)


d'kid

 

[Bill]

Check the eytomology of the phrase. It didn't originate in drag racing and it is not meant literally.
Cheers,
Ed
"Never look back, somethin' might be gainin' on ya.'" Satchel Paige

May I reiterate?

"Not only is it nonsensical, but it gets really tiresome."

Just no reason to say it, especially since it has no literal meaning, and therefore, no real purpose...

I rest my case.

 

[Dougster]

I've seen this on t-shirts at the races........"WHAT CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG

IN FOUR SECONDS!"........Well take a breath and apply it to FOUR WIDE.........

............Think about it!!!

I've got one of those shirts (Paton Racing).

They also have another one that I love - "I didn't want to tell my Mom that I'd been Drag Racing for 20 years. So I told her I was in prison!"

 

[cantdrive55]

Keyboard Crew Chief

 

[d'kid]

Bleach Box

 

[ANDY]

how bout these:
someone asking crew member what happened? answer:'Driver Broke'
racer with no luck:'He couldn't win if he had a single'
Forces answer to what happened:'Bad Coil'

 

[flapjack]

the blower sneezed
kick a rod
dropped a valve

 

[speedster]

lifted the huffer!
tree'd him!
made soup!
smokin the hides!
down a hole!

 

[go]

I remember hearing this a few times on the West Coast on a good run was
"That car was b***hing"

The other one for a few guys that were a little quick on the tree and had a fair share of red lights was
"He needs some Visine to get the red out"

 

[danno]

Mine has to be "Fire The Next Pair"...

 

[CH3NO2]

Hi everybody,

new onboard from France but no stranger to the sport.
here are some "slang" word and phrase, I particularly appreciate:
(i think i've not read them)

nitro : Liquid Dynamite
crew chief call: set it on grenade!


little phrase: it's set on "Ludicrous speed" (joe Amato 282.13 mph barrier buster
1987 US National,.....WAS THERE!
(from Mel Brooks movies:SPACEBALLS same year.)

 

[ANDY]

Roses are red violets are blue the mains are black and the rods too

1st round runner up

 

[TR]

Complete motor "HAT TO PAN".

Rick

 

[willy]

Hi everybody,

new onboard from France but no stranger to the sport.
here are some "slang" word and phrase, I particularly appreciate:
(i think i've not read them)

nitro : Liquid Dynamite
crew chief call: set it on grenade!


little phrase: it's set on "Ludicrous speed" (joe Amato 282.13 mph barrier buster
1987 US National,.....WAS THERE!
(from Mel Brooks movies:SPACEBALLS same year.)

Welcome to the Mater Christophe.

 

[Tim5636sc]

Hi everybody,

new onboard from France but no stranger to the sport.
here are some "slang" word and phrase, I particularly appreciate:
(i think i've not read them)

nitro : Liquid Dynamite
crew chief call: set it on grenade!


little phrase: it's set on "Ludicrous speed" (joe Amato 282.13 mph barrier buster
1987 US National,.....WAS THERE!
(from Mel Brooks movies:SPACEBALLS same year.)

As Christopher said... WELCOME TO THE MATER FROM FRANCE! Good first post and nice additions to the Slang Terms...

 

[Jon Asher]

This goes back to the old push start days, but if you were ever at a track like, say, Indy, and were back with the fuelers, after the drivers were strapped in and everyone was ready to go an eerie silence would descend over the area. You could here a pin drop, while off in the distance you could see the back of the stands and here the national anthem being played. And then would come that one word, shouted command: "GO!" And the trucks would start rolling. Still gives me chills thinking about it.

Someone finally said "Fire the next pair." That was always good, as was "Light 'em!"

"Pants" for front wheel farings (Sigh!) We had 'em and were they ever cool!

When Bernie Partridge was announcing he'd drive me crazy by regularly saying, "Here's a pair to draw to." He also often used "We're down to the short strokes now," probably without realizing what that meant.

Garlits on female drivers, "Ya know, they don't call it a c--tpit!"
(that'll probably be pulled!)

Someone earlier mentioned "pit puppies." The one I heard a lot was "pit lizards."

Yeah, I know. Horribly chauvinistic. Please forgive me, ladies.

Then there's "He used him like a dirty shirt."

"Eagle s--t," the rubber particles that float down out of the sky after a burnout on Goodyear Eagle slicks.

Gotta be more, but I've gone blank.

Jon Asher

 

[Kevin]

....With a (insert thousandth of a second here). Banged the blower. The big end. And as already mentioned, loud pedal.

 

[Tim5636sc]

Garlits on female drivers, "Ya know, they don't call it a c--tpit!"
(that'll probably be pulled!)

That one caused me to spit up the morning coffee Jon...!

 

[CH3NO2]

pre-race advice

from the Mike dunn / Joe Pisano, if my memory is good.
(read it in National Dragster i think)

"Unless your on top or fire ..... drive trough the back door!