The other option is to build the motor so it has plenty of low end grunt so you can leave just above idle and not have it bog, like the FAST guys do with their repop bias ply tires.
The T/A at the beginning ran an 11.60 on that pass, and the blue 71 Challenger R/T also runs bias plies.
There’s an AAR with drag radials also leaving at low rpm and well into the 11’s.
If you look through some of the other videos from that track rental, there are some other runs by those two guys...... running 11’s on crappy tires with 4 speeds...... and not leaving hard.
Those two are also running ex manifolds.