Quote Originally Posted by jerry clayton View Post
altho they shortened the length to reduce speeds, it was really just to get more stopping room as the cars weren't accellerating much at the top end--
Most Mondays I have lunch with Vance Hunt (Drag Racing List - The Racing Career of Vance Hunt) and a few other old high school buddies of mine.

Needless to say, the quality of the Bee Ess is very high at those gatherings.

Anyway, right after the distance was reduced from a quarter mile to a thousand feet Vance mentioned that an influencing factor in the decision was that most blower/engine failures (I guess you could read that "explosions") occur in the last 300 or 400 feet of the run.

There's gotta be a lot of reasons why 1,000 feet is a good idea.

Jim