BTW, the original post was about a book called, "Drag Racing: The World's Fastest Sport."
I opined that Land Speed Record attempts, which I referred to as "racing," involved faster speeds than drag racing's fastest Fuelers and Funnies.
I stand by my contention that the book's title is in error; Land Speed Record attempts often involve speeds far in excess of the speeds turned by drag racing's fastest cars. Whether what goes on at the LSR meets is "racing," is not the question; it is definitely one of a whole bevy of "motorsports," and the speeds attained by these LSR vehicles, qualifies LSR attempts as one of the world's fastest sports... Whether it is "racing" in the strict sense of the word, is not pertinent to this discussion.
Some would muddy the waters of this discussion by contending that LSR activity isn't "racing," because two cars don't run at one time, and that there are far MORE 330 mph fuel cars at a drag race than there are 330+ mph cars at Bonneville, on any given record runs day... So what???
Those types of obfuscation are just scattershot attempts to divert attention from the real question: Which kind of motorsport has the fastest speeds?
Bonneville LSR runs, of course...
Bill
