Vintage Drag Waye drag motorcycle - photo

[bruce.desertrat]

A fascinating story I knew nothing about: https://thevintagent.com/2018/04/04/...als-drag-waye/

"Waye, an electronics boffin, equipped his dragster with recording equipment, so data could be analyzed from each test run; an unheard-of practice at the time. One instrument recorded the distance covered every tenth of a second, while a second instrument recorded the acceleration in G-forces, utilizing a weighted pencil pushing against a spring that plotted a graph on a scrolling piece of paper"