Why are people scared of the drag strip?

I want to go to the strip so bad but it is to far away with my F'ed up back that doesn't like driving to far. Me and my son did mark out a quarter mile on an abandoned road and with his fancy phone I ran a 12.60, now I know that is not as accurate as the dragstrip but it gives me an idea. I'm doing some changes to the Dart right now, new heads, bigger cam and adjustable rockers, We will run it again at the same place to see what changed, and believe me, If I get near a strip I will run the screaming **** out of it to get that timing slip, Fast or slow, if something breaks we will fix it. And about the dragstrip most guys are just plain afraid to show how slow their so called "800 Horsepower beast is".

Jeff