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Drag race pass with a dead car on the track?
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08/24/20 06:51 PM
08/24/20 06:51 PM
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I went to the fuel altered nationals at Eddyville Raceway Saturday. In two separate instances, a car died at the and of the burnout. They left the cars sitting there at half track and sent the other car down on a pass. I've never seen that before. I thought it seemed dangerous. Is that normal?
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Re: Drag race pass with a dead car on the track?
[Re: AndyF]
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08/24/20 07:21 PM
08/24/20 07:21 PM
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It seems a very bad idea. But they did just that in the FC final round at Pomona Finals, November 2019. Hight did a long burnout and the car died, he bailed out over the wall and Jack Beckman made a full passs. I would have just idled down there. Another BS deal from team force. Hight won the championship by 8 points, if he ran it that round and crossed the centerline Or oiled down he would have lost the championship. So he wimped out and parked the car on the track. Which could have killed the driver in the other lane, very slim chance. Why didn’t R hight drive it all the way down and off the track. That would have been the move to make in that situation. But he had to climb out of the car over the wall and wave to the fans. Another public relations gig. https://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCStory.asp?ID=359152&Filter=Year2019#indextop
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Re: Drag race pass with a dead car on the track?
[Re: AndyF]
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08/24/20 10:57 PM
08/24/20 10:57 PM
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We had a case in law school where a car hit a cylinder head that was laying in the track and the driver was injured. He sued the track owner and won. The case didn't explain how a cylinder head was laying on the track. I always thought that was a weird case. How could a cylinder head end up on the track without anyone seeing it?
I would guess someone was using it for ballast and it fell out. I was making a pass at Havana on my bike and came upon a driveshaft laying in the trap. I missed it, stopped, turned around and started flashing my headlight at the starting line, and heard them launch 2 more cars.
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