Pitts, a lanky man of very few words, furrowed his brows in confusion. The question, though, that left McDonald and his racing partner and best friend of 50 years, Lionel Pitts, in a moment of stunned silence was quite simply why the men are so eager to continuously lay their lives on the line to watch the world fly by in a blur. You don’t want the car to get squirrelly at that speed,” he said. “We’re shifting into fifth gear at about 280 (mph). He nonchalantly explained the parachutes on the back of the car with the fact that “brakes really don’t do you much good until you get down to about 100 (mph).” Nitrous oxide from the four 30-pound tanks in the car must be added to the fuel slowly in three stages to gain an extra 420 horsepower, he said, or the driver could “smoke the tires.” SAN CARLOS - Land speed record holder Dave McDonald of San Carlos can quickly provide a logical answer for almost any question about his hobby of choice - drag racing at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats in his 1998 Pontiac Firebird.
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