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Old 04-19-2009, 01:17 AM   #111 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by wagonman76 View Post
Something else I have heard quite a bit in recent years is 1 second for every 10 mph, which I think makes more sense.
Really? At 50 m.p.h. that's 367 feet. That's a football field including both end zones. Seems a little ... conservative. You'd need binoculars to see when the guy in front passed a marker to start the timing.


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