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One of the sports programs covering the story showed a list of fatalities in the NHRA. From 1996 when Blaine Johnson was killed until 2004 when Darrell Russell was killed there were no fatalities. Since then including Russell there have been four fatalities if I remember right. Plus John Force's bad wreck. I wonder if maybe it is time to slow down the fuel classes, I've seen 280 mph runs and 320 mph runs in person and both are pretty spectacular. I don't think it will sissify drag racing at all to come up with a maximum supercharger drive ratio or go to a lower percentage yet of nitromethane than they run now. Unlike NASCAR at Daytona and Talladega you wouldn't have to worry about packs or single file racing. You could still have proper drag racing, but with 5.0 second e.t.s at 300 mph instead of 4.60 at 330 mph. I don't think the fans would have a huge problem as long as the noise, vibration and pulsing power would still exist.
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