Why do we continually use the super classe as track testers?

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Nitro Joe Jackson

Because they know you Super class guys want to go 200 mph and are nuts on those stupid timers (which should be outlawed) and if, I say if Super classes did not have timers and went back to the old style throttle stops we would cut down big time on crashes. I know, I'm a broken record but damn it, it's the truth.

Joe,
Almost 24 years ago, I was sitting in the lounge of the Holiday Inn, across from the "New Atlanta Dragway". Lex Dudas was working for NHRA, and he was sitting at the next table. He said "we ought to take every delay box and every throttle stop in the world, pile them up, I'll run them over with a bulldozer and we'll set them on fire." I'm not sure it wouldn't have been a good idea.

We were running two dragsters in Super Comp that weekend. We saw a guy in the lanes fire his S/C dragster up in reverse and back all the way up to the roll cage of the car behind him. The rear end would have been in the driver's lap. The next week, we all had to have neutral safety switches.