0-386mph in 3,58 sec! Slammin Sammy - bannend in USA!

[eva-adam]

See the video of the legendary Sammy Miller and his rocket dragster here on a run in zandvoort.

Vanishing Point - YouTube

Vanishing Point - YouTube

This is the fastest quarter mile time ever!

Sammy got bannend with this car in the USA so he went to Europe to do his performances!

RIP Sammy.........

[dutchmasterflex]

Amazing how the human brain can take that much force and still be able to steer the car to safety :shock:

Why was it banned in the US?

[nthfinity]

Legendary rocket car pilot Slammin' Sammy Miller was killed in an accident on Tuesday 29th October 2002 whilst working in the Texas oilfields for his company Applied Force. The incident was unrelated to any of his own work. Sammy's career was one of superlatives. He raced Funny Cars of the Fuel variety before switching to rockets in 1976. His Spirit of '76 was the first Rocket Funny Car and it very quickly smashed track records across the USA. Sammy's next rocket FC was the first Vanishing Point, a Vega-bodied car in which he recorded the first ever three-second pass in Florida in 1979, and in which he first broke the 300 mph barrier in Europe, at Santa Pod in July of the same year. A number of Vanishing Point FCs, the Oxygen Rocket Dragster, and a Jet Dragster followed, all of which still hold ET and speed records. He also set a world ice speed record when he put skis on the Oxygen dragster and recorded 247 mph at Lake George. Sammy also arranged the first ever rocket races, which were against Al Eierdam and which were also contested at Santa Pod. In 1984 Sammy recorded a pass of 3.58 at Santa Pod Raceway which still stands as the absolute ET record anywhere on the planet. We last saw Sammy in action at the Speedfreaks Ball at Santa Pod Raceway in May of this year, starting a comeback in typically spectacular fashion with a low five-second pass before putting Vanishing Point into the field, and then working with overnight with his close friend Antony Billinton to ensure that his fans saw him run again on the Sunday. Sammy was the ultimate showman and was hugely popular with the fans, thousands of whom turned out to see his return at the Speedfreaks Ball. Off the track he was always friendly and approachable to fans and media alike and could very easily have made an alternative living as a comedian or professional practical joker. His death leaves a massive gap in the sport and in the hearts of his thousands of fans.

I'd never heard of him before.... but that is absolutely incredibly fast!

[pagani]

Originally Posted by nthfinity Legendary rocket car pilot Slammin' Sammy Miller was killed in an accident on Tuesday 29th October 2002 whilst working in the Texas oilfields for his company Applied Force. The incident was unrelated to any of his own work. Sammy's career was one of superlatives. He raced Funny Cars of the Fuel variety before switching to rockets in 1976. His Spirit of '76 was the first Rocket Funny Car and it very quickly smashed track records across the USA. Sammy's next rocket FC was the first Vanishing Point, a Vega-bodied car in which he recorded the first ever three-second pass in Florida in 1979, and in which he first broke the 300 mph barrier in Europe, at Santa Pod in July of the same year. A number of Vanishing Point FCs, the Oxygen Rocket Dragster, and a Jet Dragster followed, all of which still hold ET and speed records. He also set a world ice speed record when he put skis on the Oxygen dragster and recorded 247 mph at Lake George. Sammy also arranged the first ever rocket races, which were against Al Eierdam and which were also contested at Santa Pod. In 1984 Sammy recorded a pass of 3.58 at Santa Pod Raceway which still stands as the absolute ET record anywhere on the planet. We last saw Sammy in action at the Speedfreaks Ball at Santa Pod Raceway in May of this year, starting a comeback in typically spectacular fashion with a low five-second pass before putting Vanishing Point into the field, and then working with overnight with his close friend Antony Billinton to ensure that his fans saw him run again on the Sunday. Sammy was the ultimate showman and was hugely popular with the fans, thousands of whom turned out to see his return at the Speedfreaks Ball. Off the track he was always friendly and approachable to fans and media alike and could very easily have made an alternative living as a comedian or professional practical joker. His death leaves a massive gap in the sport and in the hearts of his thousands of fans. I'd never heard of him before.... but that is absolutely incredibly fast!

I have heard of him before.
8) 8)

[Svensson]

Awesome video!! :shock:

Only a small note, it's not a jet dragster but a more powerful rocket dragster.

Here's another incredible Sammy Miller run:

I don't know if we will ever see anything run down a drag strip again that was as spectacular as Sammy Miller in one of his awesome rocket powered cars. The performance of his cars was astonishing. The numbers he ran in these cars still seem unbelievable today. In Holland Sammy run the 1/8th in 1.6 sec at 307mph, he still today holds the world 1/4 mile record at 3.58 sec at 386 mph. With up to 25000 horsepower on tap and pulling up to 12g's Sammy's body would sometime take a hour to recover after a run, with nose and ear bleeds quite common. Sadly Sammy died in 2002 in a incident unrelated to Drag Racing. This amazing 1982 clip shows Sammy trying to break Kitty O'Neils 1/4 mile time of 3.74 in the Oxygen Dragster.

:arrow: http://www.jspoard.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/3.81large.wmv

[fordgt84]

:shocked!: :shocked!: :shocked!:

[gis]

he should have run more boost

[ZfrkS62]

wow....that's insane...and to think the top fuel dragsters of today are just 50 mph shy of that speed (tony schumacher ran a 333mph a few years back)

[Zot09]

WOW...how the heck do you keep that in a straight line?

R.I.P.

[momodels]

That´s rocket :shock:

[eva-adam]

Sorry, you are right, my typing was too fast - slammin sammy style

Originally Posted by Svensson Awesome video!! :shock: Only a small note, it's not a jet dragster but a more powerful rocket dragster. Here's another incredible Sammy Miller run: I don't know if we will ever see anything run down a drag strip again that was as spectacular as Sammy Miller in one of his awesome rocket powered cars. The performance of his cars was astonishing. The numbers he ran in these cars still seem unbelievable today. In Holland Sammy run the 1/8th in 1.6 sec at 307mph, he still today holds the world 1/4 mile record at 3.58 sec at 386 mph. With up to 25000 horsepower on tap and pulling up to 12g's Sammy's body would sometime take a hour to recover after a run, with nose and ear bleeds quite common. Sadly Sammy died in 2002 in a incident unrelated to Drag Racing. This amazing 1982 clip shows Sammy trying to break Kitty O'Neils 1/4 mile time of 3.74 in the Oxygen Dragster. :arrow: http://www.jspoard.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/3.81large.wmv

[Svensson]

^ LoL... thanks for the video though

[eva-adam]

Originally Posted by nthfinity Legendary rocket car pilot Slammin' Sammy Miller was killed in an accident on Tuesday 29th October 2002 whilst working in the Texas oilfields for his company Applied Force. The incident was unrelated to any of his own work. Sammy's career was one of superlatives. He raced Funny Cars of the Fuel variety before switching to rockets in 1976. His Spirit of '76 was the first Rocket Funny Car and it very quickly smashed track records across the USA. Sammy's next rocket FC was the first Vanishing Point, a Vega-bodied car in which he recorded the first ever three-second pass in Florida in 1979, and in which he first broke the 300 mph barrier in Europe, at Santa Pod in July of the same year. A number of Vanishing Point FCs, the Oxygen Rocket Dragster, and a Jet Dragster followed, all of which still hold ET and speed records. He also set a world ice speed record when he put skis on the Oxygen dragster and recorded 247 mph at Lake George. Sammy also arranged the first ever rocket races, which were against Al Eierdam and which were also contested at Santa Pod. In 1984 Sammy recorded a pass of 3.58 at Santa Pod Raceway which still stands as the absolute ET record anywhere on the planet. We last saw Sammy in action at the Speedfreaks Ball at Santa Pod Raceway in May of this year, starting a comeback in typically spectacular fashion with a low five-second pass before putting Vanishing Point into the field, and then working with overnight with his close friend Antony Billinton to ensure that his fans saw him run again on the Sunday. Sammy was the ultimate showman and was hugely popular with the fans, thousands of whom turned out to see his return at the Speedfreaks Ball. Off the track he was always friendly and approachable to fans and media alike and could very easily have made an alternative living as a comedian or professional practical joker. His death leaves a massive gap in the sport and in the hearts of his thousands of fans. I'd never heard of him before.... but that is absolutely incredibly fast!

Well, i had the luck to see him - 1986 in Hockenheim on a qualifying run with his vanishing point!
1986 was the second drag race of hockenheim - they used the start-finish-line straight for 1/8 mile runs. That straight was way to short for the vanishing point. Slammin sammy did his shoot (it still gives me goose pimps when i think of that run) but he couldn`t stop before the first corner!!! => Big rollover......he wasn´t hurt but the "car" didn't look nice, so he couldn't start on sunday. He always gave 150% no showruns, always full boost. For the Hockenheim straight the boost was too much.

[eva-adam]

Originally Posted by dutchmasterflex Amazing how the human brain can take that much force and still be able to steer the car to safety :shock: Why was it banned in the US?

There was no competetion left for such crazyness!!!
Driving in a rocket-dragster!
And it was found to be too dangerous.

[twboy1999]

holyshit
thats fucking fast