First time at the NHRA top fuel races can be tough as hell, if you don’t wear the provided ear protection plugs. But don’t be fooled, the ear protectors that the host gives you are not good as the ones that you will buy for yourself.

This is because the host of the event wants you to feel like these engines are louder than they are. They make the placebo effect that you are wearing the ear protection and still you are hearing the engines too loud.

The lesson here is to buy your own ear plugs, so that you will not be deaf when you go home from here. First timers at these NHRA top fuel events are the most interesting, because they don’t know what to expect from the engines and the cars.

When there is a take-off, they are hiding their faces, so that we don’t see them struggling with the too much loud noise that is coming from the engines. The car builders on these events are making the exhausts so short that the sound is amplified from the engine. So when you hear a loud engine you think that it is more powerful than it actually is.