KEEP IN MIND THAT THE BEST ENGINEERS IN THE 50”S SAID A DRAGSTER COULD NOT EXCEED 169 MPH.
STANDING START
THEY ALSO SAID THAT BUMBLEBEES COULD FLY—THEY WERE NOT AERODYNAMIC
TODAY, TOP FUEL CARS ARE GOING AS HIGH AS 340 MPH-—AND A GIRL IS THE DRIVER !!!!!!!!
How do you know those were the BEST ENGINEERS OF THE 50’S ?
Any calculations like that must have been done by assuming that the tires could only produce some maximum coefficient of friction, and therefore some maximum acceleration. For example, if you assume that the tires have a coefficient of 1.0, the maximum acceleration would be 1 G. If that acceleration was maintained for a whole run, the ET would be 9.05 seconds at 198 mph.
What they didn’t know back in the 50’s was that it would someday be possible to produce the kind of super sticky tires they have today.