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- From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
- Subject: Re: How Fast is a Top Fueler???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.064942.7833@mr.med.ge.com>
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 06:49:42 GMT
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- Rujith S DeSilva (rudis+@cs.cmu.edu) wrote:
- : In article <1992Aug26.092300.14627@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
- : gv9j@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
- : > ... a typical Top Fuel dragster ...
- : >
- : >I saw the NHRA Northwest nationals in Seattle, and did some timing.
- : >They did 1/4 mile in 4.9 sec, meaning an avg of 3.41 g.
- : >They got up to 295 mph in 4.9 sec, acceleration of 2.74g average.
- :
- : Err ... the above two figures are contradictory. It's got to be either one or
- : the other.
- :
- : What are these cars like, anyway? I've never heard of them, or anything
- : remotely like them.
- :
- : Rujith de Silva.
- : Carnegie Mellon.
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- Gosh, I'm SOOOOOOOOOO tempted to write a nasty post about keeping this kind of
- crap out of rec.autos.tech, and putting it in rec.autos.sport where it belongs,
- but I'd never consider being that sarcastic.
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