How fast could you go?

[Ed Wright]

Michael, what NHRA class do you run?

[countrypuppy4865]

Mr. Ed,

Michael runs GT/HA.

[Andrew Hill]

-3200 ft here this afternoon with a 29.96 barometer and 14 degrees. 0.955 correction factor. It would be fun to see how fast it would go!

[Ed Wright]

Can you imaging getting it to hook in that air?

[Greg Gay]

All you need is a boiler and a radiant starting line!

[Paul Merolla]

Originally Posted by Greg Gay

All you need is a boiler and a radiant starting line!

I'd love to find a track owner that was game for that idea....here's a 350' driveway we did recently:

We were in Alaska for Christmas visiting the grandchildren and I checked the DA app on my phone (I do that too much when I'm not at the race track) and at one point I saw it was -5200'. I got a little sad that the race car was 4000 miles away ... and oh yeah, that it was -18 degrees with 2' of snow on the ground.

Scott

[Michael Beard]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Michael, what NHRA class do you run?

GT/HA. I did notice it's not listed in Nitro Joe's Stats, probably just because the passes I made in Mike Volkman's rent-a-ride in the same class were faster than the ones in my car. I went 10.369 at the Maple Grove LODRS. http://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCSt...r2013#indextop

All you need is a boiler and a radiant starting line!

Alaska Raceway Park has a heated starting line. Bandimere is plumbed for cooling... I imagine they could use it to heat it as well.

How fast could you go?
28 degrees, 38% Humidity, Dew Point 5 Degrees, Barometer 30.62.

We actually ran in -1,700' DA at Maple Grove's Footbrake Nationals many years ago. Scraped ice off the windshield that morning. Everyone was about a half a second faster than normal! Track hooked just fine. Also many years ago, Rob Robertson ran himself in the finals one night of the Thanksgiving Footbrake Nationals at Piedmont in NC. 28 degrees and running in the 5's. (1/8th mile)

You can make a starting line hook with little problem. Downtrack is more of a challenge as it just doesn't maintain the heat and the groove can disappear. Piedmont has a track *heater*.