There is no such thing as a stupid question. Just stupid people that ask questions. lol
Wasn't picking on you, that was not my intent, please believe me, but if Alan johnson said he was doing it with wire length, he was lying to someone. Probably the NHRA I don't think you're stupid, or that it was a stupid question, but doing this with wire is just not feasable.
Well, I figured it wrong anyway, it's 18600 MILES of wire would equal a tenth of a second. About 98 million feet of wire, give or take a few hundred thousand feet.