One thousand feet class racing?
 

3391 Jerry Bennett 1135 Nick Reiter
C2 ****WINNER**** 0.087 10.531 101.74 0.021 10.745 100.49
D/SA Index: 11.55 (+/-): -1.019 D/SA Index: 11.55 (+/-): -0.805

Qualified: #52 10.707 #20 10.586

Reiter with the starting line advantage, but Bennett chased him down for the Class win.

Re: One thousand feet class racing?
 

Don't have a dog in the hunt. So, this is just an outsider opinion.

I've raced 1/8 mile, 1000', 1/4 mile, & even a real short track on the front straight of the circle track at the Louisiana State Fair grounds. I think it was just over 400'.

Whether you're dial-your-own break-out racing, or heads-up racing, it's just as fair for one as the other. The car must be correctly set up to run whatever distance the track is. You still have to cut a good lights & either run consistent ET's or run quicker than your heads-up opponent.

I can see however, that some of the really fast guys would not like a shorter track, because it might cause them to cross at closer to 100mph than 150mph. The throttle-stop, high speed racing has proven that some guys insist on going real fast on the big end.

I assume that quite a few guys would quit racing, if the race length was reduced to 1000', in their class. Is this correct ? :confused:

The Nitro cars are still going well over 300mph. So, how fast would the fastest Stock & SS cars be going, if they changed their set-up for only 1000' tracks ?

Re: One thousand feet class racing?
 

The point being that you don't run in the 10s at 100 mph. with your right foot to the floor.

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With no more knowledge about it than I have, when I see numbers like that, I just assume that once the slower car realizes that the quicker car has him covered & will get to the line 1st, he just lets off the pedal, which will reduce his mph number. When the quick guy, realizes that the slow guy has let off, he too backs off. Don't wanna put up any quick numbers that will get any attention. No reason to go any quicker or faster than you have to, to win...is there ?

Re: One thousand feet class racing?
 

Evidently you were not watching the Bennett-Reiter race! Nick almost wrecked his car and had to get out of it!!

Re: One thousand feet class racing?
 

His car was squirrelly all weekend.

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Larry,
You're right as I didn't see that race and now that you mention it I did see one of Nick's previous runs he did take the scenic route down the track.