Anyone else do drag racing (not the cross dressing type :) )

Just wondering if anyone else drag races or watches it ?
I used to race up until a couple of years ago, still involved in crewing for my mate Kev who won the ACU national Comp bike championship last year.

This is lo mo vid of one of my runs.

 

I think straightliners run a round there.

 

After the first couple of times, I found the jet cars a little boring (probably because they were holding up the rest of us in the fire up lane
The ones that always impress me are the Top Fuel cars, the sheer violence of the noise is something else !

 

There's a new meeting on 21/22 May called Race, Rock and Ride.
http://www.racerockride.co.uk/
Or a big European meeting on 27thy - 30th May.
http://www.santapod.co.uk/e_main.php

 

Some stats on the bike
Hayabusa frame and engine.
0-60 in 1.55 seconds
0-100 in 2.9 seconds
Faster than those slow old F1 cars
It's doing 185mph at the end of the quarter. Best time of 7.994 sec's
Launches at 7,000rpm with full throttle (while praying your chassis/launch set up is right)
Power is somewhere around 550-600hp, never actually dyno'd it.

I ran it in the Super Street class and I was one of the slower guys.....