Originally Posted by
Caddyshack
It is 2 miles long but you need to accelerate and have enough room to stop from 200 and because the organisers need safety and people don't want to cook their brakes you don't get the whole two miles.
People do tend to take the quickest road cars there, drag cars would be a lot quicker to accelerate. People take along the fastest cars they can.
Even at a few of the recent TOTB's standing 1km only, the fastest cars were hitting around 210mph. Really, a full 2 mile runway to use to accelerate and slow down is still huge.
Even without brakes a huge amount of speed scrubs off naturally from high speeds.
Hell if my car could accelerate as fast as it slows down naturally from high speed I'd be happy !