>>5888176
NTA, but I happen to live near a drag strip and have attended races since I was very young. As long as you don't mind being outdoors in the heat usually in a crowd, then it's a great time. The races themselves aren't the exciting part since they just shoot down the track in a straight line. The main appeal, in my opinion, is seeing the full extent of human engineering capabilities when targeted entirely toward the goal of straight line acceleration combined with an ungodly amount of money.
With the funny cars or top fuel dragsters in particular, you can often feel each individual exhaust pulse if you're close enough to the car. Seeing the videos is one thing, but feeling it is often worth the ~20$ admission fee my track charges most of the time even if I don't wind up staying very long usually.
They also sometimes do meme shit like jet cars and drift events on occasion
