Drag Racers Are Ditching Superchargers for Scuba-Style Tanks and Compressed Air

Re:Drag Racers Are Ditching Superchargers for Scuba-Style Ta... by MarcelOlsz on Monday April 07, 2025 @01:36PM (#43613940)

Racing changed my life and you should definitely go to a meetup, drag race, or track event. The dream of the 80's is still alive in the car world. You'll meet the coolest people. Dummies get filtered and don't make it to the events/track. It's the best and easiest real life scene to get into if you're technical because car guys are absolute nerds.

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Re:Drag Racers Are Ditching Superchargers for Scuba-Style Ta... by jorvi on Monday April 07, 2025 @01:55PM (#43614101)

> because car guys are absolute nerds.

Are they? At least in Europe they are usually blue collar guys that pick a neighborhood at random to hold a car meet, terrorizing that neighborhood until deep into the night, including street races. And if they aren't accommodated they'll aggressively clash with the police.

They're easy to spot too, pumped up douches with tribal tattoos and gemstone earrings that behave like they're prone to pick a bar fight with you.

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Re:Drag Racers Are Ditching Superchargers for Scuba-Style Ta... by JKCalhoun on Monday April 07, 2025 @02:15PM (#43614318)

Or hoons as the Aussies call them. I think OP was talking about a different caliber of racer.

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Re:Drag Racers Are Ditching Superchargers for Scuba-Style Ta... by MarcelOlsz on Monday April 07, 2025 @02:31PM (#43614465)

I am, which is why I specifically said drag, meetups, and track events. The only group I detest are the ones that takeover roads/highways and race in densely populated zones. I like hooners, 99% stick to parking lots and make a bit of noise. You'll be very hard pressed to find "racers" who embrace endangering regular people.

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Re:Drag Racers Are Ditching Superchargers for Scuba-Style Ta... by MarcelOlsz on Monday April 07, 2025 @02:28PM (#43614445)

What do you expect when tracks are closing left and right? That energy has to go somewhere. But yes those guys are also nerds.

The meets I'm talking about are like this [0][1]. There's a lot of the tattoo gemstone guys in [1]'s timestamp. Is this what you mean? I'd love some examples.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bAq_qD9i2s

[1] https://youtu.be/q4lvEYLJaOY?t=340

>And if they aren't accommodated they'll aggressively clash with the police.

If you're a car guy you're basically begging to be hunted constantly. In my opinion this is all downstream of the death of folkracing.

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Re:Drag Racers Are Ditching Superchargers for Scuba-Style Ta... by potato3732842 on Monday April 07, 2025 @04:47PM (#43615774)

Europe doesn't have the same accessibility for motorsport so people doing stuff on the street is what you get. IDK, write your legislator.

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