Does anyone else here remember when "physics" teachers, in drag racings infancy in the late 50s early 60s, said that
the fastest possible speed a piston powered
dragster could EVER physically achieve in the quarter mile from a standing start was like 140mph?
I've read that a few times over the years. It
always made me chuckle. The first time I remember reading it, pro-stock cars were almost into 200mph territory. Top fuel dragsters were aproaching the 300mph mark.
Now the record is what, over 325 I think.
