There is absolutely nothing “funny” about Nitro powered Funny Cars dragracing side by side at night.
What would you say if all of your five senses were activated at once? Not just engaged, but intensified to the ultimate possible experience. In an instant of time, all five of your senses stimulated. How would you react if that memory of having all of your natural senses; your sense of sight, sense of hearing, of smell, taste and touch, stayed with you and etched into your mind for life? The beauty of the glittering lights highlighting the action has already captured your imagination. But, then there is something else. Why are your eyes watering? The smoke filled atmosphere adds another unique aspect to all of this. The deafening roar of the laden power plants, powered by a distinct fuel smell in the air attacks and reaches deep down into your nostrils. At the same time, there is a slight burning to the throat as you swallow. There is also an immediate clasping of your hands to the side of your head to cover your ears from the noise. You can actually feel the ground below your feet move as there is a small earthquake that shakes and rattles your very bones. What would you say to that kind of happening? Like me, you could probably only describe this type of event in your life in an inaudible scream, “Wow.”
That is the mind blowing description for most first time eye witnesses to the action described of one of the most extreme and dangerous professional sports on God’s green earth. Now of course, the average spectator watching from the safety of their grandstand seat and the even safer distance from the action, do not experience all of those thrills in the same intensity as those who are down there so very close and uncomfortably personal.