It’s impossible for a 130 mph 1/4 mile car to not clear the top of the track, before that same car, doing 105-106 in the 1/8 coasting out does( this all assumes the only place to get off the track is the top end.
What I see speeding up bracket days is tracks going to 1 time trial instead of two.
But,..time isn’t super important,…..because virtually nobody does away with buybacks, which take a lot of time.
Regards down time, I bet 90+ % of down time is from incidents occurring from the water box to the 330…if not more.


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