As we have mentioned, in the last stage NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, which took place in Seattle, Tony Schumacher, according to many experts, it had every chance to make the first ever 3.6-second ride.
However, before the start of the pilots were asked to switch off the engine, which caused the failure of two cylinders in dregster the defending champion. After the incident on Northwest Nationals most of the riders, managers and engineers agree that overcoming the 3.7-second barrier will become a reality this season.
World record in the class Top Fuel (TF) is 3.701 seconds and was established three years ago, Antron Brown. Only now drag racing veterans and experts in the technical part of the race, began to speak out loud about existing opportunities to beat him.
«One of the most important factors are the weather conditions, the temperature of the strip and the level of training, which this season is much superior to the one with which we are all faced in the past. This means that we can adopt a more aggressive setting cars and as a result to show better results — said Jim Karin Oberhofer, vice president of team Kalitta Motorsports, — We believe that the record check will happen in October NHRA Keystone Nationals. Climatic conditions in Reading seem to be the most suitable „.
«For the record itself is paramount start and how dregster accelerated towards the 60-foot mark,» — said Aaron Brooks, the chief command Morgan Lucas Racing. While Jim Karin Oberhofer inclined to think that the basis of their times successful develops only 330 feet away.
«The ideal should be everything: the work of the engine and fuel system, clutch settings, weather conditions and the coating strip. Only the presence of a complex of all these factors will be the guarantor of a new record. And I'm sure it will be installed in 2015, „- said Mike Guger, head of the technical department of the team Bob Vandergriff Racing.
«We used the configuration of aerodynamic elements allows for an unprecedented acceleration at around 100 feet, as well as 200 and 300. But after the rate passes for 290–300 mph, we have to pay for the overabundance of downforce at the finish time — says Mike Green, Team boss Tony Schumacher — However, if we can develop at least a couple miles per hour longer at around 60 feet, then the speed will grow exponentially. It is in this, our team sees the secret of success „.
«Thousandths of the easiest way to win between 330 and 660 feet. After 660 chance simply does not remain because of the rev limiter: dregster practically ceases to be accelerated, „- shared his opinion of the pilot of the Don Schumacher Racing, Tommy Johnson Jr.
The mood in the NHRA offers a more than optimistic about the fact that time would have to move the bar of their times in 1000 feet in the class TF. Do predictions come true, and whose theory is closest to the truth, learn, hopefully, in the near term.
