Re: OT: Drag racing types

["Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com>]

Your understanding is wrong. It takes 2 variables to win a drag race
(bracket). This is r/t and the other is ET. Both are directly affected by
one another. If you start later than the other dude then you have to beat
him to the finish line. The tree compensates for dial in and therefore if
you both left the light at .003 you would STILL have to be at the finish
line before him to win. Hope this makes sense. I had the same issues on a
previous racing experience.


> It's my understanding that reaction times don't affect ET?  I do know
> now that reaction times count for who gets to the line first.  :-)  Even
> if I had a .500 reaction, my quarter mile time would still would have
> been the same.
>
> -Mike
>
> Nathan Malone wrote:
> >
> > Hey that's not that bad, low 15's are pretty quick (depending on what
you
> > got under the hood), work on that Reaction time and you could be running
> > 14's, and that would qualify as bad ass in my opinion. Especially at
that
> > altitude.
> >
> > Nathan
> >
> > Mike VanAmburgh wrote:
> >
> > > Did a little dragging tonight and don't understand how I got beat.
> > > Here's what the slips say.  BTW, this is bracket racing.  Gimme crap
all
> > > you want about my not-so-fast times, but this was at 4200 feet.  :-)
My
> > > best time was 15.357 @ 89.71.  Not too bad considering the newer
> > > Camaro/Firebirds run 14.8s at this altitude.  I even saw a 87 Grand
> > > National run a 15.02.  Eww.
> > >
> > > Me
> > >
> > > Dial 15.30
> > > R/T .838  (hehe that sucks)
> > > 60' 2.433 (spun 1st and 2nd way too much)
> > > 330 6.517
> > > 1/8 9.897
> > > MPH 72.71
> > > 1000  .000  (that lane wasn't working for 1000' times)
> > > 1/4  15.401
> > > MPH 88.80
> > >
> > > Other dude (Civic)
> > >
> > > Dial 18.43
> > > R/T .574
> > > 60' 2.711
> > > 330 7.745
> > > 1/8 11.861
> > > MPH 59.90
> > > 1000  15.469
> > > 1/4 18.561
> > > MPH 71.65
> > >
> > > I was under the impression that whoever gets closer to their dial in
> > > without beating it or red lighting wins.  He was .131 off his dial and
I
> > > was .101 off mine.  Why did I lose?  Did my crappy reaction time come
in
> > > to play somehow?  He did reach the line before I did, but I was closer
> > > to my dial in.  Is this why I lost?
> > >
> > > I beat a Turbo AWD Eclipse on my first run (practice run) by 3/10ths.
> > > That was fun. :-)  His 60' was 2.190 compared to my 2.372, but I
caught
> > > up to him.
> > >
> > > It was a fun night, but there was WAY too many people.  I had to wait
2
> > > hours between my runs.  I was there for 4 hours and only had two runs
> > > (knocked out in the first elimination and only had one practice run).
> > >
> > > -Mike
> > >
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