Just watching some NHRA on Fox and the current round at Denver and following rounds are only being run to 1000ft for nitro cars. This is of course is following the unfortunate death of Scott Kalitta a few weeks ago.
His engine blew at the finish line and following an unfortunate chain of events failed to pull up resulting in his death.
As a result NHRA have imposed this interim measure as they believe the engines let go more often than not after 1000ft. Once the exact cause of the accident has been established new rules may come into play in an effort to make the sport safer.
I know this doesn’t affect VWs as such but it’s an interesting topic nevertheless.
Ultimately these cars are now going so fast current runoff areas and other issues have the potential to result in injury or death in an accident.
Fair statement or is the nature of the beast.
Stanley I guess the reward is in the doing of it
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