1/8 MILE IS THE WAY TO GO
I have a way to slow the cars down and not cost any additional money: run all races on 1/8-mile track. The fans don’t know the difference, most of the stands are in the 1/8 mile and it won’t change anything. Equipment will live longer and less chance of drivers being hurt or killed, less fuel, less track surface to prepare or clean up would save everyone a lot of money!!!!!!!!!!!
Mark Mitchell Sr.
East Otto, NY
CAP THE SPEEDS
I agree completely on needing to cap off the speeds. Let Top Fuel have a 310 top speed "target" and Funny Car's 300. How about take the mile per hours off the scoreboard? Quick fix? How about mandating effective 2008 single mag, single fuel pumps?
Over ten years ago, I was saying that NHRA will need to figure out how they want to market the sport when it is no longer able to promote each event as a "record-breaking speed-fest." I think that time is finally here, if not now...when?
Mitch Cooper
Tacoma, WA
TAKE A LESSON FROM NASCAR
Three hundred mph is roughly 440 ft/sec. This velocity greatly increases the liklihood of severe brain trauma upon impact. By slowing down the closing speed to 250 mph, the survivability of a crash is almost ten fold. Even with a Hans or R2 device your brain cannot take a collision with the inside of your skull. The IRL and CART used G-meters to record the impact of their respective race cars during a crash to determine what safety measures were needed to help their drivers survive. They only go 230 and have "crush" built into their C.F/Monocoque chassis!
Don Dunham
Livermore, CA
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Unfortunately, I agree with you, there is always the inherent danger in racing. Yes, crashes are inevitable, but we always need to look for ways to reduce their impact (no pun intended) on the sport. I say unfortunately because there are a lot of sharp entrepreneurs out there that could help resolve some of these issues if they had all of the facts, but as you said the sanctioning bodies are not going to share that info for fear of litigation (against them or their buddies in the aftermarket equipment business).
When pertinent information is not shared openly, it reduces the size of the talent pool trying to resolve the issue to only those in the loop. Which wastes the resource of a lot of good ol' American ingenuity.
Scott Cornish
Lincoln, NE
ANOTHER EIGHTH MILE FAN
Let 'em Run What They Brung - 100%, What ever gear and what ever else they want - FOR 1/8TH OF A MILE!!
Red Roberts
Texas
