On the subject of rockets and cars, if there's any one like myself who lives for drag racing and can cast their memory back to the early to mid 1980's at Santa Pod and the Vanishing Point rocket car driven by the late Slammin' Sammy Miller who when he could get his hands on the Hydrogen Peroxide fuel to power the car put down some blistering runs on the strip.
If I'm correct the world record of 3.5 seconds and over 400 MPH for the quarter mile still stands and was set at the Pod,although Sammy was an American he did most of his rocket car runs here.
I had a lot of contact with him as I ran the medical services at the Pod for six years and after each run he had to be checked by our doctor for detached retinas and internal injuries due to the G forces involved in going from 0-300+ mph and then pulling the chutes and going 300+ to stop before he ran off the end of the track, which he did on a couple of occasions.
Guys like him are few and far between but I guess if you feel the need for speed and the means are there then it would be rude not to
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