There's a small sample size of teams that choose to do it. Enjoy it! There should never be a need to force someone to do that if they don't want to.In a effort to improve the show for the fans should the NHRA mandate that all fuel teams must wack the throttle in between rounds... Thoughts
Right on! The "chirpies" always reminded me of two boulevard bandits waiting for the stoplight to turn green.OK, let's do this. Do the burnout, back it up, then a long dry hop over the line. Back it up, and 3 short chirps to the starting line. And time it so that when the right lane is doing the chirpies, the left lane "answers back". I remember sitting at the finish line at the old Irwindale watching 2 funny cars doing that. One guy commented "they're talkin' to each other". Oh yeah.....
Easy winners: Scott Palmer and Bobby Lagana lolhow about awarding a point for doing a throttle whack during warm ups.
Me too, I miss dry hops! AA/FC Lil' John Lombardo at OCIR. May 22, 1982I'll trade Throttle Whacking for DRY HOPS.
I will take a guess?All those dry hops & he still had to pedal it. Noticed Larry Sutton in the video, wearing lower part of firesuit.
Larry, what car were you driving?
Cliff, I have a ton of pictures I cut out of National Dragster back in the day (I have know idea why I did that) looks likeJim, I think that's a pretty good guess. The dragster in the video seems to match the pic you posted. Plus Larry comes into view right after that & it seems like he is looking at a time slip. Wondering if the run was aborted. Well, anyhoo..... And yeah, no one sprayed the track back then. I seem to remember NHRA spraying the entire track at Ontario in either 1974 or 1975. Both years featured monster runs by Garlits. 1974 = 5.78 & 247 and 1975 the 5.63 & 250. I saw both of those races & could not believe how quick The Old Man was running.
Tony can correct me, but the 'whacks' were to put initial wear on the clutch or "seat it" (I always thought it was to square the pack). Most tune-ups are built around certain 'clutch wear', so it was part of the formula. With the newer clutch disc manufacturing and better machines to surface the discs its not neededWas not the practice of throttle backing frowned upon on account of excess clutch wear, such as the practice of long, smokey burnouts?