Ratings are for sustained high speed driving. Drag cars are only going fast for a quarter mile. That is not long enough for heat to build up in the Tire. If you drove them a hundred fifty miles an hour for 20 or 30 minutes, you might have an issue. Tires fail from heat build-up, not from centrifical force at 140 miles an hour. Back in the 60s and 70s, guys drove 150 Plus on these tires down the street quite regularly. In 1976 a school friend of mine went 152 in his GTX with polyglas tires and got the ticket to prove it.


Fast racing is a grassroots amateur event. You will find the same typical safety equipment compliance and violations in fast cars as you do at any event made up of amateur racers. Some racers are by the book and safety conscious and do everything they can. Other racers are either oblivious to safety issues or will only do what the tracks enforce to save money or save weight. Does every car have an SFI approved clutch and flywheel? I doubt it. Is there more than 12 inches of rubber hose on some cars? Of course. Electric fuel pumps without a safety shut off? Probably. Are there cars running High elevens on a factory lap belt? Yes.
From what I have seen, most of the cars that have made it into the tens are legal or pretty close to it. There have only been a dozen or less passes in the nines, but obviously that is an issue that needs to be addressed by the owners. it would not surprise me if Dave comes back with a cage and a window net at some point.

I called ya,,,drove up by myself on Sunday. The DA was 3000ft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSMm6RG_owg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoTwAmY3zy8

They busted Freddys shoes for going 30's

Freddy went 11.30's?

Yes at 3000 Da!!!Last pass he dumped at the line slowing to like a .50 to keep tech off his back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gUGqJWez00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoTwAmY3zy8

Few more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tZSnM5-zag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56hI1kIENWI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOJFypqAdU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXIlHKvJAW4

1st time with new camera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJEvnUZLfew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ZP15pBPZ8

Billy and Brian dukin it out,