Less than a month before
season begins, FC Chassis Designs Are Still Changing
This week has proven to be a
proverbial rollercoaster ride for drag racing’s sponsorship market, and yet underneath all the turmoil another monster issue is broiling that could produce even more dire
results.
A week before the first
official pre-season test a definitive Funny Car chassis design remains elusive.
According to prominent
chassis industry sources, as recent as a week ago, builders were scurrying
trying to fill the newest regulation requiring the X-bracing on frames that
was proposed towards the end of the 2007 season.
This is the same bracing that
reportedly failed in October during testing on Robert Hight’s flopper in Dinwiddie, Virginia following the Torco Race Fuels Nationals.