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Past Gas

S1 Ep119: John Force Took Funny Cars to the Extreme

Past Gas

Donut Media

Leisure, Comedy, History, Automotive

4.97.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

John Force is the king of Funny Cars… but what ARE funny cars? Why are they called “funny cars,” when the sport itself is deadly serious? How did John Force become the winningest driver in Funny Cars by an insanely huge margin? These deafeningly loud, near-7000 horsepower cars are part of drag racing history, and we sprint through their story… TODAY on Past Gas!

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0:32.4

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1:01.4

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods

1:09.0

of time, hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose

1:13.3

is a sweaty armpit because your wrap tops so warm but then you're climbing hampsed

1:17.7

heath and you get to the top and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then

1:22.3

your nose is still freezing to top. Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

1:35.1

September 23rd, 2007 was a routine race day at the Texas Motorplex outside Dallas. John

1:41.8

Forrest and Kenny Bernstein, both drag racers at the top of their game in the funding

1:45.7

car class, rolled to the starting line for the second race of the National Hot Route

1:50.3

Association's six race count down to the championship series. The two veteran drivers

1:57.3

launched at the green lights as their 500 cubic inch engines pushed close to 7,000 horsepower

2:03.7

down to the slicks. The sound was deafening as the men rocketed down the straits. Then

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