For those of you that haven't seen this bracket of racing forget everything you have ever seen or witnessed in motorsport.
This is as serious as it gets. Forget horse power, one of these things registers 2.5 on the richter scale, and thats is a fact.
Watching to Fuelers side by side (16,000 Bhp) cant be described. You need to witness it in real life.
0 to 100 mph in 0.8 of a second and achieving 300+mph in under 5 seconds.
Come up there on the 11th Sept , you will be talking about it for the following week
Just over 2 hours to get there. M1 junction 14 and about 30 minutes from there.
This is a Top Fuel starting.
They start the car on Methanol only (2000 bhp).
At 1.03 seconds in the video you will see the crew chief on the left reach over and activate the Nitromethane. It's then running at 8000 Bhp.
A typical start up like this costs just over £ 800 in fuel alone. They use between 14 & 16 gallons on a quarter mile run.