What was your 60ft time silverstone .. that's the most important part. If you were 80+mph running 8.90's then your 60 must be pretty bad.

 

I just went through my truck, and wouldn't you know, that's the only timeslip from that day I don't have. I believe it was in the low 70's, I've got one motor pass slip but the car bogged down real bad and only went a 9.53, the mph on that one was 71.5, so I guess I little better that that, I do remember the 60' was 1.86. Now I've got to find that slip, it's bothering me.

 

ok, was just curious .. it's not that important

 

No, it is, because now you've got me wondering Thanks.

 

if it was way off, NHRA wouldnt use it as their basis for requiring a helmet...do i need to scan the NHRA rulebook?

 

I think I know where it is

 

Well, nhra doesn't use it to guage what you may run in the 1/4 by looking at the 1/8th mile time.

It's for safety .. and high 8s in the 1/8th is hardly enough acceleration to be deemed dangerous where a helmet may be needed because most people running high 8s are only trapping right around 80, but that same high 8 second car in the 1/8th can get dangerous at roughly 100mph in the 1/4.

 

Damn, 81.5 in the 1/8th then only 97 in the 1/4? That thing must have been falling off big time at the far end of the track. 81.5 should be around 102-103 mph.