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Shut Down Areas
"At the 1984 Grandnationals outside of Montreal, Shirley Muldowney suffered a crash which crushed her hands, pelvis and legs. Taken directly from Parks’ writings:"
https://dragracingedge.com/the-blog/shut-down-areas/
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01-27-2021, 10:03 AM
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01-27-2021, 10:11 AM
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01-27-2021, 10:34 AM
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Re: Shut Down Areas
Read in one of my old magazines where Dale Hamm proposed shortening the track to 1000' several years before Muldowney's wreck.
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01-27-2021, 02:03 PM
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Re: Shut Down Areas
I've always thought that going to one thousand feet wasn't an answer. Make some changes to their rules that would slow the fuel cars down where a 300 mile per hour run was not he norm but could still happen on a rare occasion. BP
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01-27-2021, 06:19 PM
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Re: Shut Down Areas
If Sanair ran to 1000 feet it would have 3454 feet of deceleration distance to the beginning of the sand trap. That is compared to Englishtown's 2558 feet in the same configuration. So it seems that shutdown length at Sanair wasn't quite the same issue as Englishtown. In any case, Muldowney's crash was contributed to a front tire tube coming out and fouling the steering, if I recall correctly.
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01-27-2021, 09:12 PM
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Re: Shut Down Areas
let the TF guys do what ever they want to do, just limit them to 671 blower
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Re: Shut Down Areas
The Shutdown at my home track (LVMS) is very uphill.
I believe it make a real difference!
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