---
title: "NHRA Drag Racing in Super Slow-Mo is Borderline Pornographic"
description: "Sometimes fast looks better slow."
date: "2015-10-01"
modified: "2015-10-01"
authors:
  - name: "Max Prince"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-prince"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/314/nhra-drag-racing-in-super-slow-mo-is-borderline-pornographic"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "Racing"
  - "Watch This"
---

# NHRA Drag Racing in Super Slow-Mo is Borderline Pornographic

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Confession: I don’t know a whole lot about professional drag racing. A little jargon, some tech specs. Enough names to drop and get by in a casual conversation. (The legendary [“Big Daddy” Garlits](<https://www.thedrive.com/design/243/just-the-tip-our-13-favorite-exhaust-designs>) is always a safe play.) But, like you, I know something spectacular when it bites me in the ass. And this video has teeth.

![kdol2w\_1.gif](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/kdol2w_1.gif>)

The premise is simple. Brilliant. Two-plus-minutes of NHRA’s Countdown to the Championship, played back in super slow-mo. That’s it. The most violent vehicles on earth, all crumpling rear slicks and fire chimney manifolds, doing holeshots and breaking stuff. In. Slow. Motion. Here, fast looks better going slow. Enjoy.

https://youtube.com/embed/5sxfisurTQw

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