Again, in the second pair of Super Street, the guy got loose at 800' or later. He certainly wasn't just coming off the stop. Any car with any power was going to have the same problem.
That was a problem downtrack. Now, LOOK at the rubber on the starting line.
You've got a high water table, and a great deal of rain leading into the weekend. The water table has to first recede, then you'd have to completely scrape the track, and start prep from scratch. There's no bandaid fix for this situation. That said, you can either 1) know that you are able to deal with it properly and do so, and 2) know that you're not *going* to be able to deal with it, and pull the plug in advance. I knew we were going to have a lot of rain leading into the weekend. That's one of many reasons why I waited until 7pm Thursday night to leave NC. I expected that if they thought they were going to encounter such conditions that they would not be able to overcome, that they would postpone the race. I've now been to two divisional races at Atco 12 years apart where I've won first round and had the race rescheduled to a time where I can come back. For me, it's been a money pit with no chance of any return. But it's even worse to lose cars and hurt drivers.
And AGAIN, this is FAR from an isolated incident in NHRA this year. WHY? What are they doing different that's not working? It's not like they're carrying the "wrong traction compound" barrels around from Phoenix.