I personally don't get it, obviously don't have the puller gene. To me it's about as exciting as watching paint dry. Dock Boy's statement about having too many teeth to be a puller is funny. I like Paul Breedlove's better. "I didn't drive 300 miles to go 300' at 30 miles an hour once". That pretty much sums up my feeling about sled pulling. But it is definitely popular in the eastern half of this country. Diesel drag racing doesn't draw near the crowds that pullers do. I think a lot of that is drag racing fans like really fast passes and most of the diesel trucks are not that fast. .
I personally don't understand it but I do have a college edgeamacation and all my teeth,
Dockboys opinion doesn't matter much as he can't get any engine to live past the DREAM stage, and we all know his somewhat addled state of mind.:kick:
Breedlove, well, I'm sure the fighter pilots think we are all boring.
Having done both, you said it right, racing is not even remotely interesting until 200MPH+.Watching even a150 MPH truck going 1/4 mile, you cant tell if its 150 or 15.
I raced a dually into the finals one day at 98 MPH. I could have ate a sandwich and had a beer going down the strip.:bang
One huge reason the Diesel truck pulling caught on so fast, is we pounded the gasser trash at the pulls in the early days with slightly modified street trucks, vs dedicated pullers of the 460/454 variety. Talk about standing ovations.
The racers can't claim that. And, if one or two can, there was nobody their to SEE IT. We were doing this in front of crowds of 5-10,000 at county fairs, 2-3 nights a week. We went from no Diesel classes at all, to several at each fair in a couple years, across about 6 states.
You elitist "educated" guys like to sit around and brag about this or that with the numbers, lookit, I did .0123 beyond .568, reaction this dial in that,blah blah, who cares?
Where do the racing fans sit? AT THE LAUNCH. Not too many drag strips have stands at the traps, do they?
How long is a pulling track, 300', the entire action is RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE FANS.
They are seeing absolute maximum power and effort, right in their faces, not a 1/4 mile away. Give me WOL Sprints on a 3/8 oval over a super speedway.
As a motor sport fan of all kinds, that seems pretty smart to me, regardless of tooth count.:hehe: