Yesterday we traveled another 26 miles down the road to Pomona where they hold the NHRA Winter National Drag Races. We met up with some friends and are having a great time. These are a fun bunch of people that get together often and know how to have fun. We went over to the races today and spent about a half day watching the cars do about 325 miles per hour down the ¼ mile in 4.5 seconds. They don’t know for sure how much horsepower these things are generating because there is nothing that will measure them but they are estimating around 5 to 7 thousand…Yes I said thousand horsepower. These are not jet cars. They are good old piston engine cars. Not your usual piston engines however because these burn nitro methane fuel. Now you just can’t imagine how loud 5 –7 thousand horsepower sounds. You just have to be there. The sound waves just pound your whole body as they go by. It is just one of those thing you can’t describe. You just have to be there. Yesterday and today was qualifying. Tomorrow we are heading over for the final race of the weekend.
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