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Originally Posted by laconic1
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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Pro racers know the dangers and they accept them. Racing is about pushing limits or performance and striving to do better. Hitting a wall at 100mph after your car explodes will leave you just as dead as 200+
As performance advances, safety does. Every accident is investigated and the organizations sponsoring races have a vested interest in making sure that if nothing else comes from an injury or death, at least people know what went wrong. This might lead to longer runoffs, impact damping barriers, or even just the knowledge of what went wrong in the car that killed him, but people will learn from it and they will be able to race more safely because of it.