Im sure most of the fans know more than a Snake or a Force huh Ron?........LMAO

If those idiots will BUY shirts, I bet they're exactly the kind they want! Now that I think about it, one of the shirtless diehards I see at Bristol during warmups (cuz I'm usually standing beside him, shirted.) has been there forever! I've seen "names" say hi to him when they walk by.

I do disagree with 1,000 at tracks that have sufficient shutdown. Whether we'll ever see standards that define what sufficient is? Possibly a can of worms they want to avoid opening. I still say it'd be interesting to see a comparison on paper of all national event track shutdown and runoff areas/devices. What kinds of engineering formulas would you use and, would some tracks not even be qualified for 1,000 ft? How do you determine what a 2,000 lb car SHOULD be running into at 300 plus MPH?

I did something different in the front half of a bracket dragster a few years ago that was NHRA and SFI legal. Inspectors didn't like it but, according to their rulebook, there wasn't a thing they could do about it at the time. That's what I was told. It was an area they didn't want to have a spec for because there were too many different designs out there. I finally received a thumbs down from NHRA's technical review board. I still have that on NHRA letterhead. A rule for my car that was never published in National Dragster or the following year's rulebook. I think they just did it to see if it would stick at the time and I just let it. I think they don't know WTF to do about the shutdown areas because of how hard it would be to define.

I'm sure they'll take the people who've bought West Coast Choppers decals for their back windows (who'll never own a $90,000 motorcycle) over us, anyday.

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Well, I just wonder. If you "didn't tell them" at what point the average diehard fan even would notice if you kept shortening the track by 50' a race (without the numbers changing, I know)

If a guy walked and stood at different points on the track in 100' increments and you had to try to estimate which one he was at?

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I've got a feeling that I'll be able to tell a big difference in 1000' vs. 1320' at Dinwiddie. Our trackside camping spot is at about 1100 feet. I think I'll be able to tell the difference in fuel cars screaming by me at 320 mph vs. cars that have shut off. At least I'll know who won.

Murdock.

I agree with you,but hey "a fan",knows it all right........LOL

Yeah but, you're how much taller than the average spectator? Yeah, you were real hard to find when we had to turn over the turnover. There you go, throwing logic into it, knowing at what footmarker post you're camping at.

The average spectator is probably in the stands?

For the sake of example, what if they told you that you were now camping at the 1,500 foot mark? Would you really say "Hey! I think we're at the 1,200 foot mark!"?

"Honey, I think that car was doing more like 300 instead of 320! This is bullsh*t!"

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