What is it like to be a few meters from a nitro burning car? I will try to describe some of how it feels to you. First you have to run about 100 meters down the side of the track to where the nitro car will stop after it does a burnout, once the nitro car stops you must quickly jump over the wall and get close enough to the front side of the nitro car so the driver can see you, do not stand directly in front of the nitro car until it starts to reverse backwards, while standing this close to the nitro car you will feel the ground shaking beneath your feet and the air around you will feel like it is shaking also, your butt, breasts and eyeball will also be shaking like crazy as you try to focus on the nitro car, you cannot see much at this stage because of all the tyre smoke, as the nitro car begins to reverse and you start to follow giving hand signals as to the direction you want to driver to go to stay in the hot sticky tyre tracks he just laid down, the tyre smoke starts to thin and clear offering a moment of relief but then you find yourself walking in a plume of nitro fumes that are being pumped from the engine this starts to burn your eyes and nose as you try to keep focus and breath, all this can last a minute or more depending how quick the driver reverses the nitro car back to the startline, when the car comes to a stop and you walk or run past the nitro being pumped from the exhaust it is like someone tried to push you over it is very powerful and something you need to be careful of, as you stand at the back of the nitro car and watch the team do the last minute adjustments to the nitro car before sending it down the drag strip you still cannot see clearly, you might see a flash of green from the lights and then huge header flames from the exhausts as the nitro car bursts into life and sets off down the quarter mile dragstrip and then in less than 5 seconds it will be all quiet again and hopefully you see two parachutes emerge from the rear of the nitro car and it will safely come to a stop, only the reaction of the crew will tell you if it was a good pass or not because it will be another few minutes before your eyes will be clear enough to see the world again without a blur, if you have not experienced nitro racing first hand then you must at least once in your lifetime, thanks for looking and reading love Kiiko. ps I nearly forgot to tell you that it is also very very loud so protect your hearing.