I'm for anything that improves driver safety, I'm sure this is an interim measure.... Granted, their are incidents before the 1000' foot line but most of the big ones are on the big end.... Nothing will solve all the safety issues, but this will certainly be a temporary solution for some of them....

Drag racing is about who gets to the other end first... I seriously doubt taking 320' off the end of the run is going to lessen and of the intensity of being first.... The only thing more mile an hour does is occasionaly set a record....big deal... You can run 340 mph, but if you ain't the one to the other end first, you lose.... If the drivers consider it a necessary safety precaution that should say everything that needs to be said...they're the one's doing it and the majority of them have years of experience doing it and now far more about resolving safety issues then any of us spectators ever will.... 100 yds shorter is nothing if it means preventing just one more incident like happened at E-town....