Me thinks Sammy's life was highly exaggerated. The 3.54 "pass" was
supposed to be at: http://www.santapod.co.uk/ Like where is this track
record???????? Jets don't instantly accelerate, not even in your dreams.
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c wrote:
>
> I need to correct myself he
>
> <snip>
>
> Anyway, my point here is that the rocket cars
> > had got so fast, and I believe I remember hearing about a run that was
> over
> > 400MPH and in the very low 4 second range, but that I am not sure of.
>
> To quote this site:
> http://www.eurodragster.com/news/sammy_miller_tribute/
>
> Sammy's career was one of superlatives. He raced Funny Cars of the Fuel
> variety before switching to rockets in 1976. His Spirit of '76 was the first
> Rocket Funny Car and it very quickly smashed track records across the USA.
> Sammy's next rocket FC was the first Vanishing Point, a Vega-bodied car in
> which he recorded the first ever three-second pass in Florida in 1979, and
> in which he first broke the 300 mph barrier in Europe, at Santa Pod in July
> of the same year. A number of Vanishing Point FCs, the Oxygen Rocket
> Dragster, and a Jet Dragster followed, all of which still hold ET and speed
> records. He also set a world ice speed record when he put skis on the Oxygen
> dragster and recorded 247 mph at Lake George. Sammy also arranged the first
> ever rocket races, which were against Al Eierdam and which were also
> contested at Santa Pod.
>
> In 1984 Sammy recorded a pass of 3.58 at Santa Pod Raceway which still
> stands as the absolute ET record anywhere on the planet.
>
> Chris