How 10,000 BHP Can Snap a Dragster

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Top Fuel Dragsters are the fastest cars on the planet, they hit over 300 mph in less than four seconds, accelerate faster than some fighter jets and cost more than £3000 per second to run - and that’s if nothing blows up!
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Dragsters take everything to the extremes. Huge supercharged engines that produce over 11’000 horsepower, wings with more downforce than twelve Formula 1 cars and they drink 1.2 gallons of fuel every second. That’s about 24 feet forward for each gallon used - talk about excess!
The tyres have to be bolted to the rims to avoid being ripped off, the clutch welds itself together halfway down the run and the exhaust gasses alone produce more downforce than a supercar.
So how do you produce a chassis that can hold itself together whilst deploying 11’000hp and accelerating faster than the Space Shuttle?
Dragsters are all about getting power transferred into the asphalt in the most efficient way possible, and one of the biggest challenges with having over 10’000 Nm of Torque is that it can force the car to pull a wheelie.
This obviously can be very dangerous, many dragsters have flipped entirely - they are some of the most dangerous crashes in motorsport.
The tendency to wheelie is exaggerated by the way the dragsters are designed. The majority of the weight is placed over the rear axle. The engine, drivetrain and cockpit are all placed close to the rear axle, pushing the rear tyres into the track for better grip.
This dramatically improves performance but does nothing to stop the nose of the car to fly upwards due to the immense twisting motion.
The thing to know is that a turning force, a torque, is equal to the force times the distance it’s acting at. A bit like how you can undo a tight bolt more easily with a longer wrench.
The engineers use this principle to counter the enormous torque of the engine.

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Kommentarer

dawrek
20 timer siden
It's Literally question and answer at the same time in title? How can dragsters snap in half ? They have 10000 bhp so....:D
HanKMontana sky
Dag siden
咖啡補下去搖落
Henry N.
Dag siden
Someone might have already said it, but if you haven't already, you MUST see a top fuel (these cars) drag race at least once in your life. Besides being right next to the damn space shuttle taking off, it has to be THE loudest thing you will ever experience.
You know My first last name
Dag siden
True nigga
Kiyoone
Dag siden
I do not like this kind of race but i clicked just for watch a dragster splits in half... but... sad
Media Pool
2 dager siden
great clip.
Uncle Creepy
2 dager siden
This speech is my recital, I think it's very vital To build a chassis, that's right, to build a chassis. It's Tricky is the title, here we go... It's Tricky to build a chassis, to build a chased, that withstands the force. It's Tricky... it's Tricky (Tricky) Tricky (Tricky) It's Tricky to build a chassis, to build a chassis, that withstands the force. It's Tricky... Tr-tr-tr-tricky (Tricky) Trrrrrrrrrrricky
Rich B.
2 dager siden
It's no mystery that thousands of foot pounds of torque and tons of traction can bend a long wheelbase chassis. Even dragsters with much less horsepower twist the hell out of their chassis during hard acceleration with lots of traction.
Maurice Rose
3 dager siden
...X-Wing Fighters remind you of Dragsters with wings...
REILLY LONGORIA
3 dager siden
A jet can go 1000mph
REILLY LONGORIA
3 dager siden
A jet is faster
Turkey Bacon
4 dager siden
I raced a funny car at a test and tune once. I was in a 97 Grand Am. I couldn't even tell if my car was running. It's a whole different experience sitting in a car next to something like this.
Turkey Bacon
4 dager siden
Very well done video. Informative, straight to the point. No fluff. Thank you.
Chin Hoi Wong
5 dager siden
why dont they make it autonomous driving if it is so dangerous???
Chin Hoi Wong
5 dager siden
@Captain HellhoundI think something like the macbook I'm using can make a car follow a straight line, make minor adjustments, and is definitely lighter than a 50+ kg dude
Captain Hellhound
5 dager siden
Weight
Revanatic ThePlayer
6 dager siden
So I've got a question but why does there have to be a driver? It doesn't seem like they can turn so pressing a remote button to start the engine would be enough right? Or is it more about the driver's pride?
Captain Hellhound
5 dager siden
It may not seem like they steer, but they do a lot of micro adjustments. Without them the cars would go straight into a wall
Jack Johnson
6 dager siden
do a video about the nitro runners that hit 650 in sub 4 seconds.
SilverStone
6 dager siden
fastest cars on the planet? ok even if we ignore the various jet and turboshaft cars, there has been cars that run on standard piston engines that not only achieve greater speeds, but also sustain those greater speeds
Captain Hellhound
5 dager siden
Fastest accelerating cars
Nolan Delaney
6 dager siden
0:20 I was at that race.. wild
SAVAGE TUNER
7 dager siden
america car america car
Stephen Kalmar
7 dager siden
It’s Top Fuel, not Top Flight! 😂
Muhammad Nadeem
9 dager siden
Uuffff what a Blast....
Elite Club
9 dager siden
What stops them from making a FWD dragster that has none of the issues with wheelies?
Captain Hellhound
5 dager siden
Then they have the issue of keeping the tires on the ground.
Eris
9 dager siden
24 feet per gallon, now thats the most American thing I've heard all day.
Sergiy nevidomo
5 dager siden
🤣👍
I Putu Tara Adi
9 dager siden
It broke because they use aluminum
Daniel Brower
9 dager siden
The platonic ideal race car falls apart right after it pulls up to the finishing podium, and not a moment sooner or later.
Henk Smit
9 dager siden
I understand that people want to make the cars as light as possible. But for safety reasons and to give no one an advantage, you could also enter a minimum weight for the cars along with a maximum weight for the engine. So enter both factors at the same time
The Waffle
10 dager siden
Not as fast as my was 2105
N·M·S·L which is a stand of RMB
10 dager siden
SSC is the fastest car in the world But Top fuel dragster refused
Xach E3r
11 dager siden
It's crazy to see the drag tires on those things balloon out. I've only ever seen that on rc cars but to see it on full scale is insane
PhillipZX3
12 dager siden
They're the QUICKEST cars on the planet. The FASTEST are raced at places like the salt flats, etc. ;-)
Tullo
12 dager siden
Humanity at its peak stupidity=Dragsters and Bull Fighting
Super- noodle2008
12 dager siden
1:32 some guy in the audience:DO A FLIP YOU WONT!!! the dragster:...hold my oil...
SlingbladeJim
12 dager siden
Now THAT was interesting............thank you.
Izzaac Alley
13 dager siden
How have we not made flying cars yet, I just watched about like 6 of these things take liftoff and they are designed to STAY on the ground
Scott Crabtree
13 dager siden
I've always loved the pictures, that show the wrinkling of the rear tires, when they start off!
Gabriel T
13 dager siden
as you can see it was a woman at the wheel :D
Kaplan Günhan
14 dager siden
I find it so fascinating how fucking fast these cars really are
gognaz
15 dager siden
1: leave quick 2: go straight 3: go fast
Dazfast
15 dager siden
Why not just talk normally, this sound really odd.
Noah Reimer-Nielsen
15 dager siden
just put a ramp at the plce they get to max speed, that is how you can get into space!
Kaiser Swaghelm II
15 dager siden
What is it with Americans and creating the most laborious, dull, lifeless racing disciplines on earth!? "Here kid.. you wanna see a car drive in a straight line really fast?" "UH no, not really!" "Okay, what about really fast in an oval?" "eeeer neeeeew!"
Kamikaze
15 dager siden
Wow. That slow-mo of the tires rippling is insane.
Justin Case
16 dager siden
3000 moneys per second? that is ridiculous
Playing With Sophia
16 dager siden
Rip car fuel efficiency competition
Mike Brown
17 dager siden
That was a good information always thought that they were the baddest cars on the planet I didn't know they was better than the space shuttle or a fighter plane
ihatemegatron216
17 dager siden
Driver 61: "Top fuel dragsters are the fastest cars on the planet" SUPERSONIC CARS HAVE ENTERED THE CHAT.
ihatemegatron216
17 dager siden
@Ric Aurandt fair point, but have you considered rocket sleds?
Ric Aurandt
17 dager siden
Fastest acceleration of any vehicle on earth is held by Top Fuel only.
dogegamer 2995
17 dager siden
“Top fuel dragsters are the fastest cars on the planet” The Thrust SSC (the first car to break the sound barrier): Am i a joke to you?
Valeera
17 dager siden
these are nothing compared to the new electric dragsters set to come out in a couple years
And Metal for All
18 dager siden
Drag racing is my favourite 4 wheeled motor sport, so many different calculations go into each run from track temp to atmospheric pressure & you never can guess who will win till the race is done.
rohit nautiyal
18 dager siden
Everyone should experience these freaking monsters. Nothing can prepare you for the launch.
Benjamin gammer
18 dager siden
"She" crashed the dragster? LMAO who the fuck let that happen
Captain Hellhound
5 dager siden
Women are lighter and have a better reaction time on average
Michael Ritchie
18 dager siden
hear me out top fuel motor in a miata lol
Tetsu Toshiro
19 dager siden
Imagine putting one of those engines in a normal car
Tetsu Toshiro
18 dager siden
@DJF_62 lol
DJF_62
18 dager siden
Just imagine you shift into reverse to back out of the driveway, let off the brake and PSWHOOOOOOOO
My True Love is My FR-S
19 dager siden
6:56 Did you call it.... Top flight dragster as you show a clip of one taking flight? OOOOOOFF ;)
greenglass2
19 dager siden
are they street legal?
Shain Andrews
10 dager siden
Yes.
DevinDTV
19 dager siden
Dragsters actually aren't the fastest cars, just the highest accelerating ones. ThrustSSC for example broke the sound barrier with 110,000 horsepower.
Casey Carlile
19 dager siden
Fun fact: whatever team wins, all of the team members dicks grow by the .01 of a win 👌 that’s why they are all so grumpy 😂
Robert Byrd
20 dager siden
Nice video, but you didn't even talk about the 'wheelie bars'. Fail :(
Michael Gilmore
20 dager siden
Are you missing part of your tongue ???? dude you sound terrible
Becky Meader
21 dag siden
I was there and my car blow up
Jude Jones
21 dag siden
Guess it was no cat
frnkjones40
21 dag siden
And a properly designed set of WHEELIE BARS count for nothing????? How in the world can you omit these in an illustration?
Matthew Albitz
21 dag siden
Call of flames coming out of the exhaust it’s barely an internal combustion engine
Lysergic Brainwave Thrawthingal Byeblathingal
21 dag siden
3:26 lol *HOLY SHIT!*
gj rt
22 dager siden
At 1:23 square tubing. X cross tubing all the down the car. The plastic body later becomes metal and a structural member. Re design tie down at the topical break point.
Juanito Durden
22 dager siden
6:40 is what you came for
Mohamed K. Zakaria
23 dager siden
I want someone to rub my back like these guys rub the wheels!
Mohamed K. Zakaria
23 dager siden
@Col b lol 😀
Col b
23 dager siden
lol. sounds nice but in practice not so much. They're actualy stripping the loosened bits of rubber off the tyres to get better rubber to ground contact. Kind of an overkill exfoliate on your back lol.
tincupnickleboy the 1st
24 dager siden
Most extreme sports wether it be drag racing or motorcycle racing on ice with those spiked tires to me its like putting gun to your head, spinning the cylinder and playing Russian Rullete , i have alot of respect for these crazy fuckers who do this stuff continually, most of them survive it, kudos to them !!
りゅうとしゃちょう
24 dager siden
日本のスーパーGTもターボ禁止してメカだけのルールにしないかな?! 絶対におもしくなる
experience noose
24 dager siden
テーゴシテゴーシ初体験16*歳
Mherzia Rescatie
24 dager siden
I learned a lot of engineering watching this thanks
sugarsaint
25 dager siden
👀 ROFL
Speed Killer
25 dager siden
accelerate faster than a jet... that really isnt too hard...
big bob 169
25 dager siden
I use to make hose clamps . I hope they worked well .
Trepang 412
25 dager siden
The slingshots didn’t have that problem. Of course the driver sat in front of the engine, and the blower could blow off and hit the driver in the face. That did happen.
?imon
25 dager siden
0:00 Thrust SSC: Am I a joke to you?
DARIUS MARK
25 dager siden
"dragsters are the fastest cars in the world" thrust scc: am i a joke to you
DARIUS MARK
23 dager siden
look i said dragsters are the fastest cars in the world but its not
DARIUS MARK
23 dager siden
no
DARIUS MARK
23 dager siden
ahem speedwise
Generic Scottish Channel
25 dager siden
lonG-E
Schlomo Ubermann
25 dager siden
Amazing video about idiotic engineering.
ya boi garlic bread
25 dager siden
Doesn't everything accelerate faster than a space shuttle? I mean, It accelerates to 1000mph faster than a top fuel drag car!
Fuck Biden
26 dager siden
Fun fact dragsters said f u science dont hate me cause im beautiful 😌
Audi 1
26 dager siden
Fact # that girl had balls
Charles Anderson
26 dager siden
FUN FACT - AT LAUNCH , DRIVERS A$$ PUCKERS SO TIGHT YOU COULDN'T DRIVE A STRAIGHT PIN UP IT WITH A 20 LB. SLEDGE HAMMER !
trillrif axegrindor
26 dager siden
anyone who hasnt heard a top fuel car or dragster in person owes it to themselves,its a very sensory experience.noise,heat,sound waves,nitro AWESOME
trillrif axegrindor
26 dager siden
10,000 horsepower,a wheelie,physics and the front end smashing down all create what happened..........save yourself a lot of bullshit
Simon Loughton
26 dager siden
How can bolting the engine to chassis directly with clamps reduce the vibration transmitted to chassis more than using mounts? i don't understand this, but great clip thanks.
Jim Stephens
27 dager siden
The engine is strapped to the chassis? I think he meant to say the blower is strapped to the engine, but it is bolted also, the strap is just for safety should the blower try to exit the engine.
James Grimsey
27 dager siden
So why are the engines behind the driver? Ask Don.
Captain Hellhound
24 dager siden
Safety and aerodynamics
Juana Garsa
27 dager siden
Wen yiu get wind fuckt get it
Putsky1342
27 dager siden
Have you notice that they're welding the chassis both side at the same times to avoid asymmetrical inner-tension in the frame? probably left-handed on one side and right-handed on the other.
palonero
27 dager siden
Comparisons like "it accelerates faster than the space shuttle" are completely unnecessary and irrelevant. The goal in designing a muti-stage launch rocket is not to achieve the highest thrust to weight ratio, but the most efficient one to punch through the atmosphere during the high q stages. If high efficiency was achieved at a 1.1 thrust to weight ratio, then that's what they would aim for. In a rocket, T/W ratio increases dramatically as fuel is consumed and stages are shed and on modern rockets, the T/W ratio is usually limited to 5 (yes, they have to limit it). As a machine, you simply can't compare a rocket with any other vehicle. Nothing comes even close.
palonero
23 dager siden
@Roger Out There's no need. Just say the acceleration. What is it, 50m/s^2 when a normal car accelerates at about 8m/s^2? That should be enough.
palonero
23 dager siden
@Roger Out Acceleration is exactly what G force express. It's a product of the thrust to weight ratio and expressing it in G's is just easier for people to understand than expressing it in m/s^2, which is the international unit. It's irrelevant. The goal of a rocket is not to accelerate quickly, it's to get out of the atmosphere as efficiently as possible. If they go too fast, drag increases too much (drag increases with velocity square). If they wanted to, a rocket could accelerate many many many times faster than any other machine we've built in that size.
177SCmaro
27 dager siden
People are right to point out that things like Formula 1 are extreme forms of racing. But when people act like drag racing requires little skill or endurance...well, let me put it this way, if you bolted a F1 engine to the supercharger of a Top Fuel Dragster the F1 engine likely would not be able to fully spool or build full boost to the Top Fuel engine. In other words, it takes as much or more power then an F1 engine makes just to drive the supercharger on a Top Fuel engine, that's how extreme these things are. If F1 is the pinnacle of changing direction, Top Fuel is the pinnacle of acceleration.
Daniele Sbordone
27 dager siden
What's the use of having 10,000 hp if you can't transfer it to the ground ? The right amount of power will improve stability and reliability.
Flight Recorder
28 dager siden
The black straps you pointed at @5:02 are to retain the blower if it blows off. The hose clamps are unpainted steel and attach lower down to the tube frame
Dale
29 dager siden
@3:33 How my 20's are going.
TTV GalaxyGamer
29 dager siden
What about jet cars I remember watching them as a kid at the Cayuga drag strip
Diego Duarte
29 dager siden
Metal tubing better and more resistant than carbon fibre? Seriously?
Simone Trafford
29 dager siden
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WootTootZoot
29 dager siden
Factoid, they only use about 7psi in the rear tires.
Juan Smith
29 dager siden
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