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      12-03-2020, 09:12 AM   #84
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Perfectly stated...

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Originally Posted by racerbruce View Post
In 2018, I was invited to be with a Top Fuel dragster team as a guest when the NHRA crazy boys and girls came to the Seattle area. As MK said, I stood behind the beasts at the start line and after my 50+ yrs of spectating from the other side of the fence, I knew it would be insane. It is literally the first time in my life when both cars launched and a massive air blast and sound shock wave hit me and in that nano-second my survival instinct told me to run the other direction because I thought I was going to die in that split second. And....when the beasts do a burn out to heat their tires before they launch, you are pelted with micro-bits of rubber.
THIS!!!

Your flight instinct kicks in when you are behind the Top Fuel cars. No other explanation will cover it so appropriately!!
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