Re: Matt Hagan and Robert Hight
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Hight did an awesome job driving that thing. Hagans chutes caught air way sooner than Hights, and Hight was right behind him. I don't how Hight managed to not drive up Hagans hind end!
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Re: Matt Hagan and Robert Hight
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Damn Chevy engines blowing up like that. Shame shame.
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Re: Matt Hagan and Robert Hight
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Damn Chevy engines blowing up like that. Shame shame. Hagan's is a Dodge.
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Re: Matt Hagan and Robert Hight
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yeah, but the chevy blew up worse...
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Re: Matt Hagan and Robert Hight
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yeah, but the chevy blew up worse... w Yaaa the Chevy totally blew up. Lol. Almost as bad as his fords did
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Re: Matt Hagan and Robert Hight
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Force on Comp Plus said he's approaching a million dollars for what he's blown up this year. I assume that's spread across all teams. At least I hope.
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Re: Matt Hagan and Robert Hight
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Guessing a good $250K, more or less, per wreck; pretty much killed the dragster, at least one FC chassis, I think 4 FC bodies, plus a lot of mechanical bits. On the FC side, if the rev limiter is at all involved, that's gonna be a fun interview... 3 chassis for John alone this year and I don't know how many bodies.
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Re: Matt Hagan and Robert Hight
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On that note, maybe NHRA should give points for BIG Explosions, wrecks,crossing the centerline and smashing into the competitors . LOL
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Re: Matt Hagan and Robert Hight
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Perhaps NHRA will redeem itself and its ticket sales when the general public figures out that an NHRA race with its wrecks is like a rival Hockey game finals or WWE event.LOL. They did sell out on Saturday and that was not the first time this year...
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Re: Matt Hagan and Robert Hight
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Hight did an awesome job driving that thing. Hagans chutes caught air way sooner than Hights, and Hight was right behind him. I don't how Hight managed to not drive up Hagans hind end! It looked to me that Hight may have had a piece of the body that could have been blocking his view for a while also.
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Re: Matt Hagan and Robert Hight
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They had so much tire smoke, some people thought they showed up for a drifting event instead of a drag race. Sportsman cars were blowing the tires off. Bunch of cars wrecked at the points race the previous week.
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Re: Matt Hagan and Robert Hight
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A good friend lives in Jacksonville, and he would go to Green Cove Springs (RIP) before Gainsville. The track is bad. It's about an hour to get there, but he tows 2.5hrs to Valdosta instead.
It may be ugly, but it sure is slow.
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Re: Matt Hagan and Robert Hight
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Hight did an awesome job driving that thing. Hagans chutes caught air way sooner than Hights, and Hight was right behind him. I don't how Hight managed to not drive up Hagans hind end! It looked to me that Hight may have had a piece of the body that could have been blocking his view for a while also. I watched it again, you are right. Amazing save. We get desensitized to the danger when we see all these catastrophic events on the track, with the drivers walking away. In reality, at these speeds, their lives are on the line when things go awry like this.
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Re: Matt Hagan and Robert Hight
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I had a great weekend spectating , 😎 Hight did a incredible job driving , as soon as Matt Hagen got out of his car , he ran over to the safety Safari guys to find out who won . The track had mine shaft conditions for divisional , da was 400 at some time, Also Thursday and Friday . I think it had more to do with the tire slip then the track surface it self . If I'm not mistaken several guys,hit there indexes,or were real close in s ss. A lot of the guys in factory stock were running 8.20s, Overpowering the track, cause everyone was making the horsepower. Nitro Harley sucks,20 entrered seemed like 4 made it down the track in 4 q sessions
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