The trick to footbraking a dragster is deep-staging and running high-gear only. Saw Jim Harrington, Roy Hall, and some others do it at the 1st $10K Footbrake at Atco years ago. Told a friend in FL about it. First time he tried it, he won.
Just keep up with your tranny fluid maintenance.
Michael Beard
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