On 28/3/06, Paul Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: >No. You have it wrong. I've heard both of those, and they don't come >close to the king. The most incredible sound in motorsports is an >8-liter, 8000 horsepower, nitromethane-burinng, supercharged drag >racing engine at full tilt. That much air moving that fast creates a >sound unlike anything you have ever heard. Of course you shouldn't >listen without ear plugs. The exhaust note lays right under the banshee >scream of the intake, and it is wide, deep, and awesome. You can feel >it in the ground, and in anything you touch. Of course, if you're >standing near the starting line, you can also feel the pavement move >when the cars accelerate at an off-the-mark rate of about 100 feet per >second. Speeds at the 1/8th mile mark are now around 270 mph. Zero to >200 comes in somewhere between two and three seconds. Unfortunately, >television chooses not to broadcast the real sound of any motorsports.
Come to the UK! Actually it is pretty much impossible to get a decent recording of these things. We have races at Santa Pod and the image in the viewfinder actually vibrates when filming anywhere in proximity of the start. I have only ever seen that twice before - once was under a B1 bomber with the reheat on just after take-off, and within a few feet of the torus (large donut-shaped magnetic chamber) at JET fusion research centre <http://www.jet.efda.org/> I think the drag racer had the edge in 'viewfinder interference', not to mention internal organ interference. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________
