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Just found this thread.
I would say that only F1 or drag racing would be a must for kids to use ear protection.
Especially Santa Pod. It is far louder than F1 unless you get in the Monaco tunnel I guess! Nothing can prepare the body for the blast of two top fuel dragsters on launch however many times you have seen them. I have seen kids there frightened to death after a run. They are so loud all of the car alarms go off in the car park and that is way back behind the high spectator bank. The jet cars are loud too but they do not make the ground shake like the 6000bhp TF cars do.
I had a press pass at the Pod earlier this year and stood right by the startline. Good quality ear plugs were not enough. Boy did it hurt, but I was only 5 feet away!
Essential I would say if taking children drag racing.
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