While a drag race launch may appear to take as long as firearm shot, there’s more to this than what you can see down at the drag strip. We’ve just come across the adjacent video that shows such take-offs in slow motion.
Despite the clip being 2 minutes and 41 seconds long, we’ve been watching it as if it were a Vine - on repeat.
It’s nice to see how much strain the launches put on the entire car. The wheelie bar and the rear bumper get more violence than you’d expect and sometimes both the rear and front fenders are shaken up as the tires are searching for traction. Speaking of rubber, the usual drag radial wrinkling process is also here.
The footage was captured using GoPro Hero 3+ Black and Silver cameras set at 120 fps. The majority of the raw footage was slowed down about 90 percent, but no frame replicating software was used.
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