Dragster Tires Captured at 1000 Frames Per Second
Yeah so I went to LA for a wedding a few weeks ago and I somehow managed to catch a cold when it was a ridiculous 95+ degrees there. It took me a little while to recover from that. Then it was July 4th and there was lots of driving and fireworks.
Speaking of driving, I always knew that tires on cars, and of course especially race cars, experienced a lot of stress and pulling forces under acceleration, braking, and cornering. But this, I could not have imagined this.
Somebody used a high-speed camera capable of capturing 1000 frames per second (how the heck did they get it to do that???) to film drag race cars at the starting line. If you watch the video you get to see tires being twisted up like a wet towel you were trying to wring out. Plus you can catch each individual cyldiner firing in the dragster’s engine.
Oh and just for reference’s sake, movies are shot at 24 frames per second and your typical home video camera records at 30 fps.
And if you like that, here is a collection of other interesting super-slow-motion video clips.