Originally Posted by red02s2k

Why would this help 320 feet isn't that much when you are already over 250mph+?

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http://www.competitionplus.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6988&Ite mid=6[/url]]THE LOGIC OF THOUSAND FOOT DRAG RACING – The NHRA held a private meeting with team owners and crew chiefs on Friday in Norwalk. The attendees of the meeting were not allowed to speak or ask questions of NHRA officials.

Had the floor been open, Head would have been pushing 1,000 foot drag racing.

“I’ll be honest with you I was fine with no questions,” Head admitted. “I think questions should be put in writing to Graham or to whoever they’re asked of. What happens so many times in a owner/driver/crew chief meeting is there are a lot of people in there and emotions were a little bit raw because of what had just happened. It wasn’t a good venue for questions and answers. I support Graham’s decision to not entertain questions. You know everybody has his email address and that’s how it should be handled. He doesn’t have answers; he gave all of the answers he had.”

Head was disappointed the topic of shortening the drag strip was never brought up. He believes the subject would have been popular amongst the teams.

“I have yet to meet a crew chief or driver that’s against it,” Head said. “I think at least 90% of them are in agreement. I now have the Force Racing camp all agreeing on that and quite frankly John Force is the sport of Drag Racing. That’s the challenge if you can convince John Force.

“I know [Don Schumacher Racing crew chief] Alan Johnson is convinced and here’s a man who’s going to take money out of his pocket because when we don’t run a quarter-mile we’re not going to nuke as many of those AJ heads and we’re not going to throw as many rods out of those AJ blocks and blow of as many of those AJ blower cases and destroy as many of those AJ manifolds, which are way overpriced by the way.”

Then Head paused long enough to laugh and continued.

“So you know the guy is speaking from the heart and not from his pocketbook or from his advantage. It doesn’t matter what distance we run AJ is going to whoop everybody. Probably at what distance we run Jimmy Prock is going to nuke us all because he’s faster at a thousand. The only reason I get close to him sometimes because my car still runs at the end. So that’s something we all agree on and that’s something hopefully we can all get accomplished.”

Head said there are two distinct reasons for his desire to go the shorter route.

“I want to do it as a safety thing and I want to do it as a money saving standpoint because regardless of how big your sponsor is or how foolish you are to waste money in this sport like I am - this is getting pricey,” Head explained. “Tires are $714 apiece. There’s just no stopping, it’s a dollar a mile for diesel fuel in both of my trucks. It’s two dollars a mile in both of my diesel trucks getting to and from the races. It’s getting crazy and every time the sanctioning body tries to save me money, it costs me money.

“This is the first time when I can see a guaranteed save for all racers, no questions asked. When their tongues are hanging out there by the thousand foot mark, you have to do something. The other day I was fortunate I qualified number one, I ran 4.80 at 320 miles and hour; I was going 312 at the thousand. It’s math, and it’s right there on the box. I was on the limiter when I got to the quarter; I wasn’t on the limiter when I got to the thousand. What’s the point in running these cars to the limiter and pull so much out of these and tear crap up. So it’s got a lot of logic to it but I’ve had a lot of logic before. Logic doesn’t always prevail but I hope in situations like this it does.”