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Originally Posted by WDCreech
posted by sc1153: Scott Kalitta would have died if his car only ran to the 1000' or the entire 1/4 mile.
I beg to differ! His engine let go after the 1000' mark. If that would have been the finish line he would have had the chute out and have shut off the fuel, so there, probably, would not have been the engine explosion that may have knocked him out. I think that NHRA did the right thing. It's just too bad that it wasn't done sooner!
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The engine did let go at the 1/4 mi mark HOWEVER the fuel teams will be re-gearing their cars to top out at the 1000' mark and will be reving at the same RPM but earlier. This means the engine would have blew up at the 1000' mark and knocked him out the same as it did at the 1/4.......POINTLESS CHANGE!!!!!!