{"id":30974,"date":"2019-11-11T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=30974"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:23:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:23:54","slug":"chutes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2019\/11\/chutes-away.html","title":{"rendered":"Chutes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Matt Hagan on Race Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re\nshaking down a brand-new race car this weekend and you have that little bit of\nanxiety \u2026 your blood\u2019s pumping, your heart\u2019s pounding and you\u2019re getting suited\nup \u2026 my gear weighs about 35 pounds and you\u2019re putting all this stuff on and\nsometimes you think, \u2018Wow I gotta wear a lot of stuff,\u2019 but these cars \u2013\nthey\u2019re very fast, they\u2019re very explosive, they\u2019re just \u2018right now\u2019 kind of\nenergy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen\nthe light falls and you see that first hint of amber, you just slam that fuel\npedal down like you\u2019re trying to break it off in there \u2026 and then it jumps up on\nthe tire and you can hear the motor rev up and the tires pick up and you\u2019re up\non the wheel and it\u2019s starting to float more and you\u2019re trying to pick out the\ngroove and then you can hear the clutch, the cylinder firing and next thing you\nknow, you\u2019re getting ready to hit your chutes, pull some brake and turn the\nfuel off \u2026 and the run\u2019s over \u2026 all that takes just four seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>FACTS<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Parachutes may be packed by a driver or another crew member. It depends on what the team decides. In any case, it only takes a few minutes to pack a chute.<\/li><li>Parachutes are driver deployed, usually by pulling a handle attached to a cable attached to the chute bag. It\u2019s the driver\u2019s call as to when to deploy the chute. Usually, it is at or near the finish line, but it may be much sooner if there\u2019s a problem.<\/li><li>Parachute deployment results in a driver experiencing significant deceleration forces, which vary depending on the speed and type of vehicle. For Top Fuel and Funny Car, it averages around six Gs. For vehicles going approximately 150 mph, it\u2019s about 1 to 1.5 Gs.<\/li><li>Parachute deployment results in a 1.5 to 2G deceleration. They help bring a vehicle speed down to a level manageable for the brakes, which is usually around 100 mph.<\/li><li>Parachutes work better at higher vehicle speeds. When Funny Cars hit the finish line and the driver deploys a chute, the vehicle is usually traveling at speeds in excess of 300 mph.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Hagan on Race Day \u201cYou\u2019re shaking down a brand-new race car this weekend and you have that little bit of anxiety \u2026 your blood\u2019s pumping, your heart\u2019s pounding and you\u2019re getting suited up \u2026 my gear weighs about 35 pounds and you\u2019re putting all this stuff on and sometimes you think, \u2018Wow I gotta wear a lot of stuff,\u2019 but these cars \u2013 they\u2019re very fast, they\u2019re very explosive, they\u2019re just \u2018right now\u2019 kind of energy.\u201d \u201cWhen the light falls and you see that first hint of amber, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":30976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[575],"tags":[528,849],"class_list":["post-30974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","tag-drag-racing","tag-dsr"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/chutesawayfeature.jpg","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30974"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31023,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30974\/revisions\/31023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}