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Quote: "What was I waiting for? After having trouble with seeing at night and blurry vision (and after abstinence from any recreational substances didn’t make it better), I went to the eye doctor and was diagnosed with cataracts in all eyes. I had the first one removed a couple of weeks ago. What a difference it has made and it didn’t hurt a bit. I wonder if this will help me seeing what the future holds?”

Welcome to old age, Burk! You'll be getting more new parts in the future...

John Largent
Pueblo, Colorado

Make them safer not slower

No, I don't think any of the classes should be slowed down. Drivers in Top Alcohol diggers have been killed at speeds far slower than Top Fuel's.

I also think that limiting Top Fuel cars to 1000' was not the way to go. First off, Scott wasn't killed because his digger was going too fast, he was killed because of poor track design(as was Blaine Johnson), equipment parked at in the shut-down area, and a safety net foolishly set in concrete posts and then placed inside the guardrails.

If the NHRA insists on slowing down Top Fuel, do it by limiting fuel pump output, blower speed, engine displacement, or a combination of all three, and quit messing with the tradition of the 1/4 mile. Which, BTW, isn't only a tradition here, but in the rest of the metric system-loving world. In closing, don't slow them down, keep making the cars safer - e.g. foam inside the roll cage, a ballistic shield behind the driver’s head, automatic shut-off of fuel and chute deployment, just to name a few.   

Jay Leibacher
Nashville, Tennessee

Kind of like apples and oranges

Jok, I feel that you have made many valid points about bracket racing, and the falling number of participants. However, I would be surprised if many test & tuners would go to an ET race. They like to run their cars as fast as they will go and race their buddies to see who is the quickest. I feel that crowd really has no interest in driving the finish line or any of the other games that bracket racers play.

I know because that is how I started out and I really don't embrace ET racing, it's just all there is at a local track for many. Thanks.

Jim Harden
Galesburg, Illinois

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