[Alan Roehrich]

Ed, the back tires do not have to lock up to make the car bounce. It just makes them bounce worse.

The biggest problem, other than the bounce, is the fact that there's nothing on the front of the car to support heavy braking action. When you're hard on the brakes, weight transfers forward. There's not enough wheel, tire, spindle, or axle to support both the weight transfer and the forces generated by the braking action. At best you'll just slide the tires, at worst you'll tear something up, and maybe make a bad situation worse. You aren't going to stop an 1800 pound car going 250MPH with an Anglia spindle.

Putting front brakes on a 300" dragster with a flexible slip joint frame and 2" wide tires is probably not going to be a good idea, either.

An ABS system is going to be extremely difficult and cost prohibitive to develop and install. Sure, the F1 cars have ABS. But those teams have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend. You're talking about teams that have a dyno that not only replicates the engine speeds of a lap, but also the forces exerted on the drivetrain through the chassis during that lap. NASCAR doesn't have ABS, for various reasons, and they have OEM backing.

An ABS system is going to require at least 3-6 sensors, reluctor wheels, wiring, a computer, a power supply for the computer, a brake distribution block, servo motors, a power supply for those servo motors, all the extra plumbing, and programming. Then NHRA is going to have to police it to keep it from being used as a traction control device. And the drivers won't like it because they won't have the control they like to keep the tires from spinning.

Ideas and suggestions are great. Don't get me wrong. But the wrong idea could make an already bad situation worse.