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Old Jul 10, 2008 | 04:33 PM
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so my dad and i were talking the other day, he said that some famos NHRA drag racer had died and as a result the NHRA will be shortening an offical run by almost 200 feet. changing the quarter mile times and run forever. anybody else herd about this?
 
Old Jul 10, 2008 | 04:40 PM
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i heard about a racer dying.... but i dont see what 200 feet is going to do. for most people you only really gain a couple mph in that range.
 
Old Jul 10, 2008 | 05:24 PM
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If you watch the video, he still would have died even if the track was 200 feet shorter. Seems kinda dumb to me.
 
Old Jul 10, 2008 | 05:49 PM
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Yeah that story was on MSN and according to that article they are going to make the race to 1000ft!! Drag racers have been racing the 1320 for years and years and now they are going to change it? Granted I'm sorry for the driver who lost his life and I hope it never happends again but racing is a dangerous sport.
 
Old Jul 10, 2008 | 05:50 PM
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Scott Kalitta was the driver who was killed.
http://www.autoracingdaily.com/news/...ter-the-kalit/
http://jalopnik.com/396760/the-horri...shown-by-espn2
 
Old Jul 10, 2008 | 05:54 PM
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They did shorten the track to 1,000 ft. for Nitro class only (320 ft. shorter).
(Forums wouldn't let me post with 2 sentences)!!!
 
Old Jul 10, 2008 | 07:01 PM
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asdlkojopia a l'alk la;k jl; laskj ;lka j;lkj ;'kljt lt;lkaj; a a;;a 'potu a ok guys this is just me testing to see if im affected by the dreaded short post dealey... i have yet to really experience it, but CF does seem to have some loading issue ssome times so maybe its just timing out. try copy and pasting messages to try again.
asdlkojopia a l'alk la;k jl; laskj ;lka j;lkj ;'kljt lt;lkaj; a a;;a 'potu a ok guys this is just me testing to see if im affected by the dreaded short post dealey... i have yet to really experience it, but CF does seem to have some loading issue ssome times so maybe its just timing out. try copy and pasting messages to try again.
asdlkojopia a l'alk la;k jl; laskj ;lka j;lkj ;'kljt lt;lkaj; a a;;a 'potu a ok guys this is just me testing to see if im affected by the dreaded short post dealey... i have yet to really experience it, but CF does seem to have some loading issue ssome times so maybe its just timing out. try copy and pasting messages to try again.
asdlkojopia a l'alk la;k jl; laskj ;lka j;lkj ;'kljt lt;lkaj; a a;;a 'potu a ok guys this is just me testing to see if im affected by the dreaded short post dealey... i have yet to really experience it, but CF does seem to have some loading issue ssome times so maybe its just timing out. try copy and pasting messages to try again.
asdlkojopia a l'alk la;k jl; laskj ;lka j;lkj ;'kljt lt;lkaj; a a;;a 'potu a ok guys this is just me testing to see if im affected by the dreaded short post dealey... i have yet to really experience it, but CF does seem to have some loading issue ssome times so maybe its just timing out. try copy and pasting messages to try again.
 
Old Jul 10, 2008 | 07:01 PM
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yeah, that worked just fine for me
 
Old Jul 10, 2008 | 10:09 PM
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WELL! Aren't I the luck
 
Old Jul 10, 2008 | 10:10 PM
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y one!!
 

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