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- NitrOlympX dragster race in Hockenheim Jockeys on frenzied powder kegs
- Burn-out brings tires to operating temperature
- Soap box in front, motor and two slick rollers in the back
- More information about the NitrOlympX
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The Briton Ian King powers his nitromethanol-fired dragster out of burn-out. The seven-time top fuel champion adorns himself with a personal best of 5.964 seconds and 374.29 km / h on the quarter mile.
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Mark Oliver Stahl (left) and Dennis Junge (right) are two passionate dragster drivers from Hamburg in the Super Street Bike Cup.
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Hardly anyone is as fast as Eric Teboul.
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The Frenchman Eric Teboul is approaching a time of less than five seconds with his hydrogen-powered “rocket bike” outside of any competition class. Otherwise only the top fuelers can do that.
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When a top-fuel dragster accelerates fully and gets serious about the noise, the beer sloshes away at 150 dB.
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The whole world on a quarter mile. Or in a few seconds – depending on the class.
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Drag racing is a loud, colorful and extremely diverse scene.
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Anyone who has just a spark of enthusiasm for internal combustion engines and dignified madness should have been there at least once in their life.
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With the NitrOlympX there is literally on the ears, in the eyes, in the nose. This is truly the wrong event for the faint of heart.
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What disappears from view on the slopes in fractions of a second can be admired all the more in detail in the paddock.
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It doesn’t matter which time level of the eternal leaderboard an acceleration-
Achieved younger too: It remains a never-ending trip to the perfect run.
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A world of preparation that ultimately always ends in four numbers.
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This is a world of masterful tuning and boost pressures with explosive fuels, exclusive materials, clutch adjustment and many more parameters.
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It’s only about four numbers, drag racing is apparently very simple. Seconds, tenths of a second, hundredths of a second, thousandths of a second. One number before the decimal point and three after it.
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It is not for nothing that almost as many spectators come to the NitrOlympX as to Formula 1. The admission prices are, however, at a high level.
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NitrOlympX dragster race in Hockenheim
NitrOlympX dragster race in Hockenheim
Jockeys on frenzied powder kegs
Why complicated when it can just be so loud? If you need an entertaining roar for the annual cleaning of your ear canals, the NitrOlympX drag race in Hockenheim is the right place for you. Traffic lights on, traffic lights off – then the air in the Motodrom burns.
Markus Jahn
09/11/2014
It’s only about four numbers, drag racing is apparently very simple. Seconds, tenths of a second, hundredths of a second, thousandths of a second. One number before the decimal point and three after it. Black and white on a small printout of paper or glowing on a huge billboard. More numbers help to better interpret the results. Response time, split times, maximum speed achieved. When a dragster pilot is at the starting light, he finds himself in a very complex technical world. A world of masterful tuning and boost pressures with explosive fuels, exclusive materials, clutch adjustment and many other parameters.
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A world of preparation that ultimately always ends in four numbers. From that very moment, the one crucial moment, when the traffic light turns green, this world is suddenly a thing of the past. On the upcoming quarter mile, i.e. 402.34 meters, a dragster driver and his pedestal catapult himself into a kind of space in between. An undefined space that is difficult to grasp for the human senses – encased in smoke and unbridled din. The jockey on his frenzied powder keg acts with a trained routine and reflexes. They are the limiting – or the winning factor. The end of this almost hypnotic event, which lasts only a few seconds, can then be grasped again with glistening bright numbers on the display board. Slow down, roll out – it follows the re-entry into the familiar world of technology and preparation. Maybe with a new personal best, a jump into the next duel or a clapping defeat. But no matter what stage of the eternal best list an acceleration disciple reaches: It remains a never-ending trip to the perfect run.
Burn-out brings tires to operating temperature
Saturday, fourth and final qualification for the two-wheeler classes: Dennis Junge, the 31-year-old Super Street Bike Cup rider from Hamburg, breathes calmly and deeply to keep his concentration. He has just completed the burn-out, which brings the tires up to operating temperature, and he is rolling towards the start lights when the track marshals close the runway to bind oil immediately before his run. So he sits on his gray-orange dragster and breathes lost in thought. There is only one chance left for him to qualify for the 16-man main field, the so-called Eliminations, on Sunday. 32 starters in its class are quite a stumbling block for dragster conditions. In the premier class, the 1000 hp, nitromethanol-fired “top fuel bikes” with four cylinders, supercharging and deep “six” times, there are just four starters. Half a second slower are the mighty two-cylinder engines, with over three liters of displacement, 900 hp, nitromethanol and six starters.
In the Pro-Stock there are low “sevens” times with seven starters. Classically tuned two and four cylinders thunder down the quarter mile without charging. European championship titles can be won in all of the classes mentioned. But what makes a class like street bikes so popular? Dennis Junge and his buddy Mark Oliver Stahl, who also competes in the Super Street Bikes with a nitrous oxide-powered machine based on Suzuki GSX-R 1000, can explain this in a very relaxed manner.
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It’s a world of masterful tuning and boost pressures with explosive fuels, exclusive materials, clutch adjustment and many more parameters.
Friday, the wagons of the boost pressure boys from Pinneberg. “Street-legal tires, no wheelie bar, limited wheelbase, optics based on the original motorcycle and normal gasoline”, that’s how the two convey the concept of this class. “We ourselves come from the airfield scene with unprepared routes that are not provided with a rubber-like adhesive like here, and we usually always grab a trophy. Here, however, the air is very, very thin. We got up from the ‘Public Races’ and are now working on the overall package. Our motorcycles may have a material value of 20,000 euros, while at the front a bike worth a single-family house is at the traffic light, which nobody sees at first glance. Performance in this class isn’t the big thing either, it’s about drivability. You have to spend your time on the track without slicks and wheelie bars.”
“Our main problem is that there is no permanent track in Germany where we can test something. The English or the Swedes have sufficient training opportunities, and even Malta has a US-level slope. If I look at the time printout, I’m doing quite well with my 370 hp and top speed. But at the start it is missing. Both of us are probably the only ones in the field who are still on the road with normal clutch actuation and not with a centrifugal clutch. Regardless, the goal is the eight to the decimal point, while the fastest in our class burn very low ‘sevens’ times. But we will definitely stick with it and go shopping in the USA in the winter ”, said a good-humored Dennis.
Soap box in front, motor and two slick rollers in the back
Saturday, back to the last qualifying runs. While the two-wheelers of all classes are still waiting, the real highlight of every dragster event comes: the four-wheeled top fuelers. Soap box in front, motor and two slick rollers in the back. The driver squeezed in between. A run of these monsters with V8 engines and outputs over 8000 hp simply cannot be put into words. Neither technically nor philosophically.
As if magic suddenly makes the monster and its inferno disappear, it also erases seconds of unconsciousness even in the viewer. A staccato of the brutal – and the brain takes a break. The abrupt end. Dennis Junge starts. Clear the route, bang, get out of the calm, engine on, tension, second gear, burn-out. And then slowly move towards the traffic lights. But suddenly: Desperate looks, hand signals and immediate clarity – the clutch is smoky, that happens quickly. Helmet off, take a deep breath and experience the dragster optimism: “No problem, it’s just part of it. We’ll be back, for sure! “
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With the NitrOlympX there is literally on the ears, in the eyes, in the nose. This is truly the wrong event for the faint-hearted esthete. Just like for morons who let their children jump without hearing protection. But let’s not fool around: if you have just a spark of enthusiasm for internal combustion engines and dignified madness, you should have been there once in your life. It is not for nothing that almost as many spectators come to the NitrOlympX as to Formula 1. The admission prices are, however, at a high level.
More info: www.nitrolympx.de
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