Into The Dusty Abyss
From your rolling start you're beginning to anticipate the miles ahead of you and hope that nothing mechanical goes wrong. As you start building speed, you're finally detaching from your push car - all cylinders are firing and the acceleration is climbing with your adrenaline. You're now in high gear and the howling wind intensifies as it drowns out the engine and your vision starts to tunnel as you almost blindly rocket off into a dust cloud ahead with only orange cones to somewhat give you guidance. Up until that moment, you hear your engine top out and you snap back to reality as you deploy the parachute and let off the accelerator. Within that short amount of time that you finally hit your top speed, all of time around you seems to slow down.
A lot of anticipation happens in the lanes as racers visualize their runs and the actions that need to be taken for a successful take-off. Some racers are not as fortunate as others on some of their runs, problems with starting even with a push car or blowing out an engine can ruin the whole day plan for a racer. But most of the racers are well-prepared because they bring their garage with all the tools they'll need to a head replacement and such, while on the fly. Here's some close coverage and action from the starting line.
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