Eleven thousand horsepower. Let that sink in for a moment: 11,000. But that’s just an approximate calculation for this NHRA Top Fuel monster. It could be more, but there’s no dynamometer on earth that can measure the gut-wrenching, ear-splitting, asphalt-shredding power of a top fuel dragster engine.
These engines are constantly pulled apart and put back together to assure optimal performance on the drag strip. Most teams can completely disassemble and reassemble the engines in less than an hour. But who has an hour to watch an engine rebuild?
We sent Hagerty’s Davin Reckow and the video crew down to Don Schumacher Racing in Brownsburg, Indiana, to give Tony Schumacher’s U.S. Army Top Fuel dragster engine the time-lapse video treatment. The result? Take a quick look and see for yourself.
Anton Morozov is one of a few surfers on the wild shore of Kamchatka, Russia. Kamchatka is a peninsula and the most eastern part of russia, a place where real and raw nature still exists. Anton lives here in his trailer just next to the ocean where he decided to open a surf school 11 years ago. Today he is a local legend and we met him for a cup of hot tea and some waves. For Anton it was a mild morning around 3° celsius so he was happy to surf without gloves and hat. It was late September and the volcanoes surrounding the bay were already covered in snow.