-You only get 5 runs to figure out how to get the 130MPH and most of those 5 runs is spent trying to figure out how to get the tires hooked the best way you can so the car can get up to speed.
-It's a slippery b-tch and people don't realize that you can still be spinning the tires at 130mph.

-I have a friend from Idaho who took his ****** drag car to Bonneville in the 1990's to run that that 130 club.
-His comments about the traction were that it was nothing different that trying to run WFO on the freeway right after a 4" snowstorm with snow tires.
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-An example of the traction problem is---back in the about 1989 Karl Staggemier for NOS and Gary Eaker from GM windtunnel brought a new transam out there with one of Joe Ruttmans carbureted Winston cup engines.
-300mph was the elusive mark that several production bodied cars were flirting with at the time like Mike Cook had gone 298 with a T-bird and blown hemi.
-seems like the HP numbers needed to do 300 mph are something like about 1200 to 1600.
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-Karl had like 5 huge nitrous bottles in the trunk of that trans am with some of that nitrous to the engine and some was being wasted thru air to air intercoolers where they supposedly were getting the air temp to way below zero F.
-This was a big deal so we were witnessing the event at the 5-mile mark which is the end of the long course----Gary was driving-----and buzzing the tires off and on all the entire way searching for traction----and still only went 298mph.