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John Force another Crash #2457624
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Your thoughts?
I feel bad for J.Linburgh. The team only has 1 race car

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Just saw the video on youtube. What a terrible crash. Everyone got real lucky.


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Learning curve for the GM change over.. Going to use up allot of GM parts... smile
Team went through a boat load of parts in AZ before Pomona....

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Re: John Force another Crash [Re: Sammy] #2457657
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Might be the weirdest drag-racing wreck I've ever seen. JFR is really balling up some cars this year.
Seems like there's a lot more engine carnage in the Fuel classes this year as a whole, and it's only 2 races into the season.

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Re: John Force another Crash [Re: J_BODY] #2457678
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The traction kinda stunk so that leads to more engine carnage


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Re: John Force another Crash [Re: pittsburghracer] #2457750
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Originally Posted By pittsburghracer
The traction kinda stunk so that leads to more engine carnage
iagree
The left lane was not as good as the right lane, better qualified car gets lane choice work
It is to bad anytime a crash occurs at the races or anywhere else, no matter which team, reason or driver twocents
It was good to see a Force crew and driver win Top fuel though bow up


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Re: John Force another Crash [Re: Sammy] #2457751
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Originally Posted By Sammy
Your thoughts?
I feel bad for J.Linburgh. The team only has 1 race car

Me thinks Jim Head has more than one funny car in his stash work
It is really to bad they didn't have a back up car at that race ready to run though whiney

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Re: John Force another Crash [Re: Cab_Burge] #2457811
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Originally Posted By Cab_Burge
Originally Posted By Sammy
Your thoughts?
I feel bad for J.Linburgh. The team only has 1 race car

Me thinks Jim Head has more than one funny car in his stash work
It is really to bad they didn't have a back up car at that race ready to run though whiney


Actually Force still won the round, he crossed the line after he went through the traps. The ladder showed Courtney vs. John in the next round.

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Originally Posted By 65pacecar
Originally Posted By Cab_Burge
Originally Posted By Sammy
Your thoughts?
I feel bad for J.Linburgh. The team only has 1 race car

Me thinks Jim Head has more than one funny car in his stash work
It is really to bad they didn't have a back up car at that race ready to run though whiney


Actually Force still won the round, he crossed the line after he went through the traps. The ladder showed Courtney vs. John in the next round.



That's what I was going to say. John F. crossed the center-line after the finish line so John Force won that round. Linburgh got the double wammy.


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Re: John Force another Crash [Re: Sammy] #2457836
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Re: John Force another Crash [Re: Sammy] #2457852
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Why so many engine explosions?
That would be my concern.
The guy seems to be dangerous lately.

Re: John Force another Crash [Re: Sammy] #2457856
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5 car bodies(6 counting Linburghs) untold numbers of parts two trips to the hospital and all in 10 runs. Force has quite a season going so far for sure.


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Re: John Force another Crash [Re: Cab_Burge] #2457862
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Originally Posted By Cab_Burge
Originally Posted By Sammy
Your thoughts?
I feel bad for J.Linburgh. The team only has 1 race car

Me thinks Jim Head has more than one funny car in his stash work
It is really to bad they didn't have a back up car at that race ready to run though whiney


According to Linburgh in his interview it was the only car they had.

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I am sure JFR will lend them one of their spares...LOL


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Originally Posted By 70AARcuda
I am sure JFR will lend them one of their spares...LOL


Do they have any to lend at this point?!


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Re: John Force another Crash [Re: 70AARcuda] #2457993
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Originally Posted By 70AARcuda
I am sure JFR will lend them one of their spares...LOL



Robert Hight said the linburgh car was an old JFR car. Sounded like JFR was going to get them another car in some way.
If I was force I would have a new crew chief before vegas.

Re: John Force another Crash [Re: moetown] #2458004
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I think I heard them say on All Access that they put a rev limiter on their engines to keep the speed down. Number one I don't think its helping with the 337 MPH they ran this weekend.And number 2 I think there are better ways to go about this. Those cars are pumping a lot of fuel on the top end.


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Re: John Force another Crash [Re: pittsburghracer] #2458019
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Originally Posted By pittsburghracer
I think I heard them say on All Access that they put a rev limiter on their engines to keep the speed down. Number one I don't think its helping with the 337 MPH they ran this weekend.And number 2 I think there are better ways to go about this. Those cars are pumping a lot of fuel on the top end.



Both FC and TF have had limiters for a few years, but the limits were different between the two classes. At the end of last year nhra changed the rules and now both classes have the same limit, 7900 rpm. FC was 7750 rpm before the rule change.

http://competitionplus.com/drag-racing/n...c-class-in-2018



Nhra needs to do something to slow FC cars down. Way too much engine carnage. The drivers will either end up broke or dead.
Del worsham was trying out a third parachute to help stop his car in phoenix.


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They also said the chutes are getting beat up bad so he added the third chute to maybe help out on this issue. The day that Jim Head quits or retires the sport is gong to take a big hit. He loves engineering and he’s the go to guy for a lot of these teams. As far as slowing down the cars NHRA is their own enemy. Carbon fiber, titanium, and magnesium parts make the good teams better and the bad teams broke.


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